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The Blueberry River First Nations is an Indian band based in the Peace country in northeast British Columbia. The band is headquartered on Blueberry River 205 Indian reserve located 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Fort St. John. The band is party to Treaty 8.
Treaty 8 Tribal Association. Treaty 8 Tribal Association (T8TA) is an association of six of the eight Peace River Country First Nations bands who are signatories to Treaty 8 in northeastern British Columbia. They have joined in an effort to negotiate with British Columbia and Canada outside the British Columbia Treaty Process.
The Dane-zaa (ᑕᓀᖚ, also spelled Dunne-za, or Tsattine) are an Athabaskan-speaking group of First Nations people. Their traditional territory is around the Peace River in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. Today, about 1,600 Dane-zaa reside in British Columbia and an estimated half of them speak the Dane-zaa language.
A 1991 estimate gave 300 total speakers out of a population of 600 Dane-zaa people. [4] Leading up to 2007, Dane-zaa was "spoken in eastern British Columbia (in the communities of Doig River (Hanás̱ Saahgéʔ), Blueberry, Halfway River, Hudson Hope, and Prophet River) and in northwestern Alberta (in the communities of Horse Lakes, Clear Hills, Boyer River (Rocky Lane), Rock Lane, and Child ...
Then in 1977, the Department of Indian Affairs divided their ancestors, the Fort St. John Beaver Band, into two distinct Nations: the Doig River First Nation and the Blueberry River First Nation”. [49] The land the Site C Dam project is located on is Doig River First Nation land, which impacts the tribes way of life and their ancestry.
Nuu-chah-nulth nations also gathered resources from the land as food sources. Some of these edible plants include camas root, [ 18 ] rhizomes from ferns and many different variety of berries such as blueberry and huckleberry to name a few examples. [ 19 ]
v. t. e. Treaty 8 site in Fort Resolution. Treaty 8, which concluded with the June 21, 1899, signing by representatives of the Crown and various First Nations of the Lesser Slave Lake area, is the most comprehensive of the eleven Numbered Treaties. [2] The agreement encompassed a land mass of approximately 840,000 km 2 (320,000 sq mi).
Pink Mountain itself is an isolated mountain of about 1,600 m that rises from a boreal forest plain at about 1,030 m. It is separated from the main ranges of the northern Rocky Mountains to the west by Quarter Creek (formerly "Two-Bit Creek", named after English name for a chief of the Blueberry First Nation). The top is alpine tundra.