[Proceedings of the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1990-05-22]
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is part of: Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts
creator: British Columbia. Supreme Court
issued: 2013
created: 1990-05-22
description: In the Supreme Court of British Columbia, between: Delgamuukw, also known as Albert Tait, suing on his own behalf and on behalf of all the members of the House of Delgamuukw, and others, plaintiffs, and Her Majesty the Queen in right of the Province of British Columbia and the Attorney General of Canada, defendants: proceedings at trial.
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note: 26986 Submissions by Mr. Willms 1 Vancouver, B.C., May 22, 1990. 2 3 (PROCEEDINGS RESUMED PURSUANT TO ADJOURNMENT) 4 5 THE REGISTRAR: In the Supreme Court of British Columbia, this 6 22nd day of May, 1990. Delgamuukw versus Her Majesty 7 the Queen at bar, my lord. 8 THE COURT: May we speak to the schedule? I have found that if 9 the tides are with me, I could sit on Saturday morning 10 if that would assist counsel. 11 MR. WILLMS: This Saturday morning? 12 THE COURT: Yes. I was hoping that we wouldn't sit Saturday 13 morning, but I find that I can if it's -- 14 MR. WILLMS: All right. 15 THE COURT: — convenient to the schedule. 16 MR. WILLMS: If I could come back to that maybe this afternoon, 17 my lord. 18 THE COURT: Yes. Certainly. All right. And you are also going 19 to consider whether we are going to sit one evening 20 this week? 21 MR. WILLMS: I think Thursday, my lord. 22 THE COURT: Yes. All right. Well, we will count on that at 23 least. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you, 24 Mr. Willms. 25 MR. WILLMS: My lord, I was at part 3(b) on page 21. 2 6 THE COURT: Yes. 27 MR. WILLMS: And I had just finished paragraph 32. I was going 28 to start paragraph 33 at the bottom. 2 9 THE COURT: Yes. 30 MR. WILLMS: Your lordship may recall that I read an extract 31 from Dr. Yerbury talking about cultural complexity 32 decreasing as you move from west to east in the Claim 33 Area and I had also submitted to your lordship that 34 other ethnologists working in this area had noted the 35 cultural borrowing of the Wet'suwet'en from the 36 Gitksan and had come to the conclusion that that 37 resulted from the fur trade, the influence of the fur 38 trade, and I'd also advised your lordship of the 39 evidence pertaining to the Gitksan move up the Skeena 40 in response to the fur trade. 41 Now, I note in paragraph 33 that even Dr. Daly 42 noted that there was a societal difference from west 43 to east through the Claim Area. And the -- I won't 44 take your lordship to the extrac…
has type: Trial proceedings
spatial: British Columbia
identifier: KEB529.5.L3 B757
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0018544
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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