"Nesika", publication of Union of BC Chiefs

[Mike Cleven]

>
>LhaXayEm,
>
>In the Stanford University collection of periodicals by and about Indians,
>at the following URL,
>
>http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/native/periodlist.html,
>
>there's a listing of the following having a Chinook Jargon title:
>
>NESIKA [MICROFORM] (Vancouver, B.C.: Union of B.C. Chiefs). -summer/early
>fall 1977. LOCATION: Green
>     Library Microtext MFICHE 607 subser. (Library has c.1: 1973-77)
>
>The implications of such a title are worth pondering.

Depends on what it is, and the date is worth noting as it is within the
timeframe when there were still many elders who spoke the Jargon and before
the anti-Jargon position of many latter-day language programs.  Although
there is a river/valley in Northern BC called the Nesika, the publication's
title means "ours" and may refer to the position of the UBCIC vis a vis land
claims and underlying title in BC, i.e. "it's ours, lock, stock and barrel"
which was made by a prominent UBCIC leader around that time (exactly who I
can't remember but he's still prominent in BC native politics).  According
to the Canadian courts, he was exactly right BTW, even under Common Law;
hence the continuing legal fracas in BC (since the provincial government
still resists this interpretation).

mc
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