Native Brotherhood of British Columbia
The Native Brotherhood of British Columbia is a province-wide First Nations rights organization. It was founded on the 13 December, 1931, during a week long series of meetings between
Alaska Native Brotherhood
.
Since its absorption of the
Kwakwaka'wakw
membership in 1942, it became oriented more towards fishing rights.
In 1945,
Coast Salish communities in BC split off to form the North American Indian Brotherhood
.
The formation of the Brotherhood in BC is recounted in North Vancouver filmmaker Marie Clements' 2017 musical documentary The Road Forward.[1]
Bibliography
- "B.C. Indian Authority Dies" (obituary for William Beynon). Vancouver, Province, Feb. 11, 1958, p. 28.
- Drucker, Philip (1958) The Native Brotherhoods: Modern Intertribal Organizations on the Northwest Coast. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, no. 168). Washington.
- Kew, J. E. Michael (1990) "History of Coastal British Columbia since 1846." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7: Northwest Coast, ed. by Wayne Suttles, pp. 159–168. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
References
- ^ Gee, Dana (2017-04-26). "DOXA: Festival has important role telling untold stories". Vancouver Province. Retrieved 2017-04-28.
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