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RESEARCH -
OBJECTIVES
- To undertake a systematic and thorough
documentation of the history, territory, laws, knowledge,
cultural traditions of the Heiltsuk people, up to the present
time by:
- locating and acquiring copies of
relavent documents, including photographs and other historical
data from archives, libraries and private
collections;
- systematically recording the knowledge
of our present generation of elders, in order to: i) fill in the
deficiencies in previously recorded documentation undertaken by
researchers from outside the community, ii) assist in
interpreting and analyzing these documents, and iii) provide an
accounting and interpretation of Heiltsuk history and culture
from the point of view of the Heiltsuk people;
- identifying the interrelationship
between Canadian society and institutions and Heiltsuk society
and culture as these developed over the past 200 years, since
contact;
- promoting or undertaking archaeological
investigation and analysis within traditional Heiltsuk
territories;
- To establish a permanent record through assembling a Heiltsuk
history and research archives that will serve a basis for: (see
under ARCHIVES, 1);
- To prepare specific materials which will summarize and
analyze research data.
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The Heiltsuk Cultural
Education Centre
P.O. Box
880
Bella Bella, British
Columbia V0T 1Z0
Tel (250) 957-2626,
Fax (250) 957-2780
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