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serv.focus(); } //--> </script> </head> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <div id="stChild"> <div class="sc" id="sc1"> <h4 class="float-left">1</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Aboriginals in the area<br />1910s<br /> Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia, Canada<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=41032&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FACFQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Roots&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_1_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_1_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#1" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75837','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=555,height=343')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ00010006.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Curtis Culp / Cole Collection<br>Valley Museum and Achives (McBride)<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc2"> <h4 class="float-right">2</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The semi-nomadic Simpcw people were a small group of the Shushwap ("scattered people"), who ranged over 56,000 square miles of the Interior. They lived in summer encampments and in winter pit houses. Using age-old trails and campsites, they wandered to familiar locations where food was available. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc3"> <h4 class="float-left">3</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Hudson's Bay trading beads<br />1819-1828<br /> Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia, Canada<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=41039&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FACFQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Roots&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_3_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_3_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#3" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75848','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=642,height=505')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ00010011.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Secord Collection<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc4"> <h4 class="float-right">4</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The first newcomers to this area were fur traders, but not many used the Yellowhead Pass. The two trading companies hired natives as trappers and guides. Pierre Bostonais was one such fur trader. An Iroquois Métis, he came across the Rocky Mountains in 1819 while working for the Hudson's Bay Company. <br /> Because of his fair hair, Pierre gained the nickname 'Tete Jaune' - Yellowhead in French. He had a fur stash at Grand Fork, where the Robson and Fraser Rivers meet, that came to be known as Tete Jaune's Cache. Nobody today knows where its precise location is.<br /> Tete Jaune travelled in this area, guiding and hunting, until his death in 1828. The story goes that Pierre was known for his arrogance towards local natives and local bands despised him. The Beaver Indians killed Pierre and his family for invading their land. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc5"> <h4 class="float-left">5</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Evidence of Native habitation<br />Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia, Canada<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=41035&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FACFQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Roots&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_5_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_5_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#5" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75843','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=615,height=410')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ0001000c.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Secord Collection<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc6"> <h4 class="float-right">6</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Evidence of Native habitation still exists at Tete Jaune Cache. Seven pits in the ground are still obvious; these holes were either used to keep food in or as the bottom of pit houses. There are remains of the village campsite and burial grounds also, but much has been destroyed by highway construction.<br /> The picture depicts fish net weights used by natives in the Tete Jaune area. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc7"> <h4 class="float-left">7</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Drills<br />Aloette River, Aloette Lake and South Thompson River, British Columbia, Canada<br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=41036&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FACFQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Roots&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_7_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_7_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#7" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75844','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=543,height=365')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ0001000d.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Secord Collection<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc8"> <h4 class="float-right">8</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Arrowheads, knives, drills and scrapers were needed for preparing hides and wood. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc9"> <h4 class="float-left">9</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Arrowheads and Bird Points<br /><br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=41037&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FACFQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Roots&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_9_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_9_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#9" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75845','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=642,height=505')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ0001000e.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Secord Collection<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc10"> <h4 class="float-right">10</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Fish Scalers<br /><br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#10" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75846','CM', 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<a href="#11" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75847','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=642,height=371')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ00010010.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Secord Collection<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc12"> <h4 class="float-right">12</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Aboriginal footwear<br />Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#12" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75841','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=642,height=505')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ0001000a.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc13"> <h4 class="float-left">13</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Facial features of a Shushwap native woman<br /><br /> </span> <div align="left"><A HREF="javascript:;" onClick="remWin('CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=41033&remP=%2Fsgc-cms%2Fhistoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories%2Fhdcn-cm%2FACFQ%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Roots&lg=English');" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('textIcon_13_1','','English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_over.gif',1)"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/text_off.gif" alt="TEXT ATTACHMENT" name="textIcon_13_1" width="28" height="28" style="border:none;"></A></div> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#13" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=75838','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=713,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ACFQ/0001/image/storycard/ACFQ00010007.jpg" ></span></a> <span class="cmStoryLineText">Credits:<br />Sculpture by Margaret McKirdy<br></span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc14"> <h4 class="float-right">14</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> These natives had a slender, muscular build and fine facial features. </span> </div> <table id="scNav"><tr> <td width="172" style="text-align:left;"><a href="pm_v2.php?id=story_line_child&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000321&sl=1512&pos=1&scpos=1" id="scJumpFirst" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_start.gif" width="10" height="9" /></a></td> <td width="170" style="text-align:right;"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="flip(this.id, 0, 1, 17);" id="scPrev" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_prev.gif" width="9" height="9"></a><a href="pm_v2.php?id=story_line_child&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000321&sl=1512&pos=1&scpos=0" id="scJumpPrev" class="scLink"><img 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