Upper St'àt'imc History in Photographs
Community Partners:
Upper St'at'imc Language, Culture and Education Society, Lillooet,
BC
Project Directors:
Marilyn Napoleon, Upper St'at'imc Language, Culture and Education
Society
Email: m_napoleon@yahoo.com
Dr. Andrea Walsh, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria
Email: awalsh@uvic.ca
Student researchers:
Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions: Adrienne Bonfonti,
Anthropology
Course Credit: Abi Godfrey, Anthropology
This project, which began in ealry 2002, will enable access
to and research of photographic collections from Upper St'at'imc
peoples and places. The primary source collections are at the
Royal BC Museum, the British Columbia Archives and the Lillooet
Museum. From the research, the Upper St'at'imc Language, Culture
and Education Society will produce a web site and a scholarly paper to be co-authored by Marilyn
Napoleon and Dr. Andrea Walsh on the historical and contemporary
significance of the photographs in the two provincial collections.
The web site content will be modeled after the UBC
Museum of Anthropology's concept of "sourcebooks" and will contain
the visual history as well as contemporary photographs of Upper
St'at'imc peoples and places. The collaborative paper will examine
how the photographs are used in contemporary efforts to promote
cultural continuity.