Cathy English Interview – Columbia River Treaty
Produced by Revelstoke Museum and Archives. Filmed by Agathe Bernard.
An interview with Cathy English, curator of the Revelstoke Museum and Archives, where she discusses the Columbia River Treaty.
Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning into wheat on the left end. The title “Stories Beneath the Surface” is circled around the image in capital letters.
Interview with Cathy English. Cathy English is a white woman with short grey hair, wearing a blue zip-up sweater. She is standing on a dirt path. There is green grass, a mountain, and grey sky behind her.
Revelstoke Museum and Archives logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Transcript of Narration:
The Columbia River Treaty was first negotiated in 1961 and, after uh, by 1964, they had worked out some major issues between the-the two governments: the U.S. and the Canadian government. [moves both hands around in a talking manner, continues throughout video]
And that allowed the-the Treaty dams to be constructed.
But I think the important thing that was missing in the original Columbia, uh, River Treaty was any kind of consultation.
There was definitely no consultation with Indigenous people.
There was little to no consultation with any of the settler population.
So I think moving forward with the renegotiations of and modernization of the Treaty the important thing is to look at how-how can people be involved in this process.
And there definitely is a lot more consultation going on now and the Indigenous people have been invited to the table.
Uh, I think that’s-that’s key to moving forward.
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