Month: August 2019

archival, land theft, gentrification & displacement, marsh & marine ecosystems (erasure & resurgence), Salish governments & elders

the relationship of Skwácháy̓s to the Squamish / Musqueam village of Sen̓áḵw

View of Kitsilano Indian Reserve, known as Sen̓áḵw [Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Snichim]
looking east, circa 1907 (City of Vancouver Archives)

‘They were forced off their reserves, out of their homes and put on a barge to north Vancouver’.
Angela Sterritt. 2019. The little-known history of Squamish Nation land in Vancouver: ‘They were forced off their reserves, out of their homes and put on a barge to north Vancouver’. CBC News (April 21, 2019)

The village closest to Skwácháy̓s was Sen̓áḵw a kilometre further west near the mouth of False Creek. The depopulation of Skwácháy̓s was part of forced removal of the communities and land management regimens of the three First Nations (spanning two Salish languages) from what is today the City of Vancouver.