Most of the languages are lost, people have lost their freedom,there was an attempt to erase them, either outright or by trying to make them 'white'. People welcomed many Europeans initially, that changed whenpeople came to settle, especially bevause of their large numbers. They were seen as traitors, but they had few ties to what became Canada. He formed a government, including six of my relatives. Louis Riel in Red River 150 years ago stood up as Canada tried to roll over the continent. There's a quote where Sitting Bull says he knew my Henrietta's brother, though I'm not sure if that's garbling. Chief Joseph landed on the Colviloe reservation after his 'I will fight no more forever' I think I'm related distantly to his band or Chief Joseph himself. Yes people had different culture and value from Europeans, but they were intelligent people too. There was a streanrolling across the continent, as if people didn't matter. Mourning Dove wrote that my family didn't trust white men after Sarah and Alexander moved away, but I've yet to see anything against the marriage in the first place.Īll those westerns came later, broken treaties and a lot more influx of Europeans. He maybe came over to make money and return to Scotland if so he stayed for her and the children. They were together for 44 years, until he died. I like to think she wasn't in awe of him, just curious. He was probably the first Eurooean she saw. My great, great, great grandparents both stepped out of their worlds to meet half way. My great, great, great grandfather roamed the northwest five years later in the fur trade, no problems. Lewis & Clark went west, and had few problems. So the settlers saw much fewer people, giving them 'permission' because numbers were smaller. So by the time actual settlers made much inroad, the people were dimished. But some of my family has been in the northwest for at least 10,000 years.Īnyone who came over carried the potential of smallpox and other disease. There's incentive there to tell a difference story.

The story has mostly been told from a European viewpoint. But family history tells a different story, and I have to speak because of the cousins. Wow, did we nab a deal on these first rate binoculars Absolutely identical to a.

None of this really affects me because it was buried or lost, until I was 22 in 1982, and in much more detail until ten years ago when I was fifty. Finally, we note that the Web doesnt replace anything. But the germ is there for the cousins, their lives often hurt because they aren't white. We were a prominent family in Red River, the racism buffered by money. My great, great grandmother Henrietta wrote in Red River n 1853 'I would rather not go to Canada how would I an uneducated dark halfbreed look among the fair and accomplished ladies?'. History can't be erased when people still feel the repercussions today. That's all the Syilx I know, my great, great, great grandmother's language, and that of the distant cousins on and around the Colville reservation in Washington State. And lim limpt to Allan for keeping this place running. First, a day late but xast sputo to everyone, I hope Santa Claus left sc'win in everyone's stockings.

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