The tragedy of Ahan, martyred by the Crown on July 18, 1865
What is the story of Ahan, the “Chilcotin Chief” martyred by the Crown in British Columbia on July 18, 1865, and exonerated by BC in 2014 and by Canada in 2019? And the story of his partner in action, Lutas? The Crown sentenced Lutas to hang with Ahan, but Lutas...The curators of BC history still recruit innocents to the work of an ongoing genocide
In a case of genocide, one community might seek to erase another even from memory. This erasure helps the killers cope with the gross cruelty of killing innocents en masse. It also tends to reduce the shame attracted by a community unwilling to renounce a genocidal...Will Canada finally restore peace to Tsilhqot’in territory?
The Government of Canada and the Tsilhqot’in National Government have announced that, “As a symbolic gesture of reconciliation,” Canada will “offer a statement of exoneration” for the six Tsilhqot’in Chiefs martyred by the Crown in 1864/65. This is an outline of the events commonly known as the Chilcotin War.
A New World treasure: hunting and fishing
A rare image from an 1868 hunting journal depicts natives fishing in the Chilcotin River.
A Tsilhqot’in treasure: an assertion of sovereignty
A rare image from an 1868 hunting journal depicts a confrontation between a Tsilhqot’in man and two Frenchmen over the unauthorized hunting of a deer.