[Commission Evidence of Lucy Bazil]
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is part of: Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts
contributor: Bazil, Lucy
creator: British Columbia. Supreme Court
issued: 2013
created: 1987-11-23
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note: 1 2 November 23, 1987 3 Smithers, B.C. 4 5 MR. GRANT: Okay. This is the commencement of the commission 6 evidence of Lucy Bazil which has been authorized by 7 court order on September 8th. For the record I am 8 Peter Grant, counsel for the plaintiffs in this 9 action, and with me -- or I'm sorry, in the room as 10 well is counsel for the Federal Crown, Marvyn 11 Koenigsberg and Loryl Russell, and counsel for the 12 Province, Tim Mackenzie and Thora Sigurdson. Also Mr. 13 Ron Mitchell is the word person, that is, the person 14 who will provide the spellings of Wet'suwet'en words 15 and he is present as well as George Holland who's the 16 translator from Wet'suwet'en into English, and of 17 course the witness Miss Lucy Bazil Verigin. And for 18 the record I want to confirm that the translator Mr. 19 Holland will not be translating everything that Mrs. 20 Bazil says. I anticipate that the bulk of the 21 commission evidence will be taken in the English 22 language, but she has requested his presence for 23 questions in particular that she may not understand 24 and he should be sworn to translate from English to 25 Wet'suwet'en and from Wet'suwet'en to English. The 26 witness Mrs. Bazil has been sworn. Possibly you could 27 swear the translator as well please, madam reporter? 28 29 (INTERPRETER SWORN IN) 30 31 MR. GRANT: Now, before I commence, the other procedure that I 32 confirmed with counsel for both the Province and 33 Canada before we commenced was that at certain times 34 Mr. Mitchell may come -- a word in Wet'suwet'en may be 35 given which he has not anticipated being led and he 36 may wish to speak with Mr. Holland. It's agreed that 37 Mr. Mitchell is the person responsible for the 38 spelling of the words. It's his spelling that will be 39 used as a standardized spelling and as he has been the 40 person basically responsible for spelling of words 41 through this trial from Wet'suwet'en to English -- or 42 I mean the Wet'suwet'en words, but if he does wish to 4…
has type: Trial proceedings
spatial: British Columbia
identifier: KEB529.5.L3 B757
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0018410
language: English
subject: Uukw, Delgam, 1937-
subject: Indigenous peoples--Canada
subject: Oral history
subject: Wet'suwet'en First Nation
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : United Reporting Service Ltd.
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