Exhibition Reviews
Dec 26, 2017
3 minutes
by Marianne Nicolson
“WITNESS: I want the Commission to tell us the one that sold it, and they should remember that the Indians have a law among themselves just as the whitemen have – and no one is allowed to take another man’s land without first finding out who the land belongs to.”
— Kwakwaka’wakw Testimony to the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission (June 1914)
In June 1914, the head chiefs of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations gathered in Alert Bay in order to testify to the McKenna-McBride Royal Commission. This commission was the culmination
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