Documents

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• Press Releases and miscellaneous Documents
  • Sinixt Nation Repatriation Press Release 1990
  • Sinixt Nation Repatriation Press Release - April 2013
  • Closing of the Circle - Remembering the White Grizzly

• News Clippings and Articles
  • Sinixt To Hold Traditional Fishery - CBC-NEWS
  • 'Extinct' First Nation Gets Ancestral Bones Back - CBC NEWS
  • 'Extinct' First Nation Files BC Land Claim - CBC NEWS
  • Presumed Extinct (1999)- Castlegar Sun
• Cultural, Archaeological and Ethnographical  Documents
  • Arrow Lakes Indians - Arrow Lakes Historical Society
  • Waneta Dam Expansion First Nations Consultations Report
  • In the Stream, Lakes stories in English by Nancy Perkins Wynecoop.
  • Notes taken during an interview of Sinixt Elder Nancy Wynecoop at Wellpinit, WA in September 1935 by William W. Elmendorf.
  • Additional notes taken during interviews of Sinixt and Spokane Elders by William W. Elmendorf.
  • Elmendorf Notebook 3
  • Elmendorf Notebook 4
  • Gordon Mohs Letter 1992
  • Slocan Narrows Report - Dr. Nathan Goodale
  • Digital Humanities Project Examines Sinixt Nation
  • Culturally Modified Tree Identification Guide
• Maps
  • Map showing surveys done by Anthony George Dawson, James Teit, Verne Ray, & Franz Boas
  • Ancient Sinixt Pithouse/Village Site at Slocan Narrows Map
  • 1972 National Geographic Map
  • Pithouse Concentrations Along Slocan River Map
  • Map Showing Sinixt Cultural Sites in the 'Arrow Lakes' region
  • Map of Traditional Travel Routes in Sinixt territory
• Legal resources
  • Who are Indigenous peoples - United Nations Factsheet
  • International Bill of Human Rights (United Nations)
  • Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (CANADA 2000)
  • Delgamuukw v. British Columbia.pdf
  • Guide for Preparing Affidavits for Supreme Court of BC
  • Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 1948
  • United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Principles-Nuremberg-Tribunal-1950
• Canadian Statute laws
  • Indian Act
  • Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act
  • Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
  • Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  • British North America Act
  • Legal Documents
    • Marilyn James Affidavit #1
    • Marilyn James Affidavit #2
    • Canada vs Robert Watt
    • Robert Watt vs. the Queen
    • Vance Robert Campbell Affidavit