[Proceedings of the Supreme Court of British Columbia 1988-03-15]
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is part of: Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts
creator: British Columbia. Supreme Court
issued: 2013
created: 1988-03-15
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: 4586 Vancouver B.C. March 15, 1986 (PROCEEDINGS RESUMED PURSUANT TO ADJOURNMENT) THE REGISTRAR: Calling Delgamuukw versus her Majesty the Queen. ARTHUR IRA MATHEWS, previously sworn: 10 THE REGISTRAR: I caution both the witness and the interpreter 11 12 THE COURT: 13 14 15 16 MR. GRANT: 17 THE COURT: 18 19 MR. GRANT 2 0 THE COURT 21 MR. GRANT 22 2 3 THE COURT 2 4 MR. GRANT you are still under oath. Counsel may be interested to know there are 60 cases between now and the end of June that are estimated to last more than 15 days and there are six cases of this or like kind going on at the present time. I take it this is one of the 60? No, this is not one of the 60. They are in addition to this one. This one was last year's. Mr. Grant, are you ready? I believe I have my name on the trial record of some of those others, my lord. I am sure you do. But I am not anxious to get them started. 25 26 EXAMINATION IN CHIEF BY MR. GRANT, Continued: 27 28 29 30 31 32 MR A GRANT: Yesterday when we broke off, Mr. Mathews, at the end of the day, you were describing this adaawk of the two brothers, you recall, and is there a name for that adaawk? We -- in our language we call it Ts'uu wijix. Do you have a number for that, Miss Stevens? I put a numerical order listing as well. Thank you. Of the Gitksan. 36 THE TRANSLATOR: No, it's not in there. 37 THE COURT: The number again? THE TRANSLATOR: It's not in the word list. It T-s-'-u-u space w-i-j-i-x. 33 34 THE COURT: 35 MR. GRANT: 3 39 4 0 MR 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 GRANT: Q A A And what does that mean? It's -- it means that they fought over the kill of the caribou. In the description of this adaawk, is there a description of any laws of the Gitksan that were broken or were not followed by these? Yes. The laws that were broken was the respect, the 1 2 3 4 MR. GRANT 5 THE TRANS 6 A 7 8 MR. GRANT 9 Q 10 11 12 A 13 Q 14 15 16 A 17 18 MR. GRANT 19 20 THE COURT 21 MR. GRANT 22 Q 23 A 24 THE COURT 25 A 26 THE COURT 27 28 A 29 THE COURT 30 31 MR. GR…
has type: Trial proceedings
spatial: British Columbia
identifier: KEB529.5.L3 B757
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0019331
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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