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This week marks the anniversary of the 1911 Declaration of the Lillooet Tribe and every year, members of the St’at’imc Nation gather to remember it. “We have always lived in our country,” it states with certainty. “Our ancestors were in possession of our country centuries before the whites ever came.”
On the surface, it would seem absurd to challenge this but in June of 1996, a mountain biker skidded off a patch of wet moss on a hill near Mount Currie and collided with the rock beneath it, damaging his bike in the crash. He set a wrench down on the rock and was astonished to see a deeply incised eye staring back at him. Excitedly, he started stripping the moss-covered granite surface until he’d revealed an oversize humanoid petroglyph with a mouth that looked “like a spaceship.”
Read the rest of Jane Carrico's view in this week's issue of the Lillooet News.
Sunday March 21, 2010
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