Musqueam Declaration
Copy of the Musqueam Declaration - 1976
"Our ancestors aboriginal right and our aboriginal right , is to live upon and travel over our aboriginal lands, seas and waters without foreign control or restriction; to utilize, trade, and consume all the resources and products of those lands, waters and seas. It is our right to govern ourselves and our communities, to up-hold and determine our own customs, beliefs, and laws."
Featured Resources
Indigenous Foundations: Musqueam Legal History Digital Media Archive
A collection of digitized newspaper clippings from the mainstream press about Musqueam's precedent-setting legal battles. Indigenous Foundations also highlights the Guerin Case and the Sparrow Case.
For Indigenous press, try searching within Indigenous newspapers, such as Windspeaker or Kahtou News, through the CBCA Complete database.
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm: qʷi:l̕qʷəl̕ ʔə kʷθə snəw̓eyəɬ ct
Musqueam: giving information about our teachings
This teaching resource comes out of a collaboration between Musqueam and the Museum of Anthropology. Via an interactive website, it provides the following resources:
- Language, showcasing the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ alphabet
- Stories, which provides access to a collection of digital storybooks, written for the purpose of language learning
- Community Profiles, which provide the opportunity to learn about Musqueam directly from Musqueam community members
- Video Gallery, which hosts community videos featuring Musqueam community members discussing issues of importance to our people
- Delta Animation
- Historic Timeline, focusing specifically on the legal and political forces that have affected and continue to affect Musqueam as a community and one of our many village sites, c̓əsnaʔəm
- Teacher Resources, available for free in PDF format
Musqueam Traditional Governance
- Musqueam Community Interviews"This video series features Musqueam community members discussing issues of importance to them, and they are intended to be a resource to learn more about the Musqueam people and culture directly from the Musqueam."
- Musqueam Research Guide - UBCXwi7xwa's existing Musqueam research guide.
Publications
- Reclaiming spaces between: Coast Salish Two Spirit identities and experiences byPublication Date: 2018Masters thesis, University of Victoria.
- sq̓əq̓ip : gathered together byPublication Date: 2015Masters thesis, UBC. "This thesis seeks to contribute to the literature and discourses around the production of Indigenous life histories, oral history, Coast Salish and Northwest Coast ethnography, and the representation of Indigenous communities, particularly in the realm of museum work."
- xʷməθkʷəy̓əm: qʷi:l̕qʷəl̕ ʔə kʷθə snəw̓eyəɬ ct = Musqueam: Giving Information about Our TeachingsPublication Date: Musqueam First Nation / MOATeacher's guide to Musqueam culture, history and language.
- Canada Customs, Each-you-eyh-ul Siem (?) : sights/sites of meaning in Musqueam weaving byPublication Date: 2001Masters thesis, UBC.
- Municipal Colonialism in Vancouver: City Planning and the Conflict over Indian Reserves, 1928–1950s byPublication Date: 2008"Looks at the conflict of city planning with settler claims to Indian reserves in Vancouver, and discusses the municipal governments decisions regarding land-use planning, land claims, and their attempts to acquire and control the Kitsilano and Musqueam reserves."