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27-609: This neighbourhood consists of many commercial and residential areas that mostly consists of single-family dwellings. It also contains parts of the Mackenzie Heights enclave, and is the home territory of the Musqueam Indian Band . Archaeological findings shows that native First Nations have inhabited the area was early as 400 B.C. The Fraser provided large amounts of hunting and fishing areas for Salish Indians who settled at three locations. As recently as 15,000 years ago, it

54-551: A teal field, with an arrowhead in the centre depicting a salmon leaping above a net. The flag was permanently raised at UBC's Point Grey campus during a public ceremony on February 25, 2019. The act was meant to symbolize the university's commitment to furthering their partnership with the Musqueam people, as the Vancouver campus is located on unceded Musqueam territory. Musqueam students Grace Point and Brett Sparrow were invited to raise

81-592: Is bordered on the north by West 16th Avenue and on the south by the Fraser River; it stretches from the University Endowment Lands on the west to Mackenzie, Quesnel and Blenheim Streets in the east. The neighborhood is centered on Dunbar Street with the vicinity of Southlands lies south of Marine Drive in the floodplain of the Fraser River, and the Musqueam Indian Reserve is also encompassed by

108-577: Is now Greater Vancouver , in British Columbia , Canada. It is governed by a band council and is known officially as the Musqueam Indian Band under the Indian Act . "Musqueam" ( / ˈ m ʌ s k w i ə m / MUS -kwee-əm ) is an anglicization of the Hunquminum name xʷməθkʷəy̓əm , which means "place of the river grass " or "place where the river grass grows" ( məθkʷəy̓ being

135-468: Is the Whiteman that brought the long nets and catches all kinds of fish. That is the reason the fish are all going away. Whenever we go out and hunt for the deer, if we get one we bring it down and use all the meat – we do not waste any of it, only the guts and the tripe is left behind. The Whiteman goes out hunting for the deer, sometime they shoot a buck and just take the horns or maybe just take

162-615: The American Museum of Natural History participating in the Jesup North Pacific Expedition from 1897 to 1900, unilaterally excavated from the midden the skeletal remains of as many as 75 Musqueam ancestors, taking them with him back to New York City to be unceremoniously displayed and researched. The belongings of those buried at the site, including tools, jewelry, carved artworks and ceremonial objects, were also excavated and taken without consultation of or permission from

189-588: The Point Grey area of Vancouver, around the mouth of the Fraser River , for at least 4,000 years. Archaeological evidence taken from the Marpole Midden (or Great Fraser Midden) attest to the Musqueam people's thousands-year-old history in the area. The Marpole Midden was the location of c̓əsnaʔəm , the largest village in Musqueam some 2,500 years ago. The changing river delta prompted its inhabitants to move to

216-686: The University of British Columbia (UBC) installed 54 Hunquminum-language street signs at its main campus, located in the Point Grey area. UBC's satellite campus in Okanagan had already put up signs in Nsyilxcen, the language of the Okanagan Nation. The Musqueam flag was designed by Musqueam artist Susan Point , who also helped design the flag of Nunavut . The design of the flag is a white Canadian pale on

243-557: The University of British Columbia . During World War II Tower Beach was the site of submarine watchtowers and gun emplacements while the UBC campus was CFB Point Grey. The watchtower ruins still stand and the gun emplacements have been incorporated into the Museum of Anthropology at UBC . The name Point Grey is often used as a short form for the Vancouver neighbourhood of West Point Grey . It

270-554: The Fraser River, across to the South or left bank of the Fraser River and proceeding downstream taking in the left Bank of the main stream and the South Arm to the sea, including all those intervening lands, islands and waters back along the sea shore to Harvey Creek, AND, the sea, its reefs, flats, tidal lands and islands adjacent to the above described land and out to the centre of Georgia Strait. Download coordinates as: The reserves under

297-627: The Hunquminum name of the plant). "Musqueam" is derived from the Hunquminum name xʷməθkʷəy̓əm , which is itself a derivative of məθkʷəy̓ , the Hunquminum name for river grass. River grass was historically abundant in Musqueam territory; xʷməθkʷəy̓əm accordingly means "place of the river grass" or "place where the river grass grows". The oral history of the Musqueam people speaks to the plant's cultural significance. The Musqueam origin story tells of an enormous double-headed serpent ( sʔi:ɬqəy̓ ) which lived in Camosun Bog ( xʷməm̓qʷe:m ). The serpent

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324-518: The Indians do not do that whenever we get or catch fish, we know when to stop and we eat or sell all we catch. These are the grievances I bring before you commissioners, and I say that the food of the Indians is being seized and destroyed. He also reasserted the Musqueam people's right to fish along the Fraser River, saying: When I want to go fishing, the two parties are also holding on to each end of my boat – there are initials and numbers on

351-586: The Municipality of Point Grey merged with the City of Vancouver. The first major land development in Dunbar–Southlands took place in the mid-1920s with some of the homes that were built during this period still stand to this day. Due to West Point Grey's 1922 zoning by-laws ordered that these early homes be situated on the back of their lots, those that remain, stand out as neighbourhood landmarks. Dunbar–Southlands

378-502: The Musqueam people's traditional ways of fishing and hunting with those of recently-arrived settlers: I have a few words to say yet. It is indeed true what the Chairman said, the Indian's custom of taking fish was only by the means of a small net, and they only caught very few, so as not to destroy the fish with a net only 3 feet wide. This is the reason I say that I did not destroy the fish. It

405-747: The Musqueam people. The midden consisted mostly of layers of biofacts such as shells and non-human animal bones, which were not taken. In 1913, the Canadian federal government and BC provincial government jointly established the McKenna–McBride Royal Commission (officially the "Royal Commission on Indian Affairs") to finalize the boundaries of reserve lands . The Musqueam people gave testimonies to federal and provincial commissioners in which they reasserted their rights to live, fish, and hunt on their traditional, unceded territories. In his testimony, Musqueam chief Johnny ( χʷəyχʷayələq ) contrasted

432-576: The Vancouver Fire Hall No 21 which serves the Dunbar region. The area also contains many golf courses including the Musqueam Golf Course, Point Grey Golf Club, Shaughnessy Golf Club, and Marine Drive Golf Club. Musqueam Indian Band The Musqueam Nation ( Hunquminum : šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ ) is a First Nation whose traditional territory encompasses the western half of what

459-475: The administration of the band are: The Musqueam people speak Hunquminum ( hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ ), the downriver dialect of the Salishan language Halkomelem . The Musqueam people are closely related to neighbouring peoples of the lower Fraser River. The nearby Kwantlen and Katzie First Nations just upriver share the same dialect, while the upriver Sto:lo people speak another dialect, Halkomelem ( Halq'əméyləm ) or

486-465: The bow and initials and numbers on the stern, and I know that I own the water   ... When I want to catch fish for my living I do not want to be interfered with at all. On June 10, 1976, the Musqueam people collectively made the Musqueam Declaration, which was ratified by then Musqueam chief, Delbert Guerin, and the five members of the Musqueam band council. The Musqueam Declaration described

513-482: The flag. Musqueam chief Wayne Sparrow and then UBC president Santa Ono were in attendance. Point Grey Point Grey ( Halkomelem : ʔəlqsən ) is a headland marking the southern entrance to English Bay and Burrard Inlet in British Columbia , Canada. The headland is the site of Wreck Beach , Tower Beach, Point Grey Beach and most notably, since 1925, on its top is the Point Grey Campus of

540-433: The present site of the Musqueam 2 reserve starting approximately 1,500 years ago. Musqueam 2 has a residential area called "Musqueam Village"; the reserve formerly had a second residential area, the village of Ma Li ( maləy̓ ). The Marpole Midden is also the location of a sacred Musqueam burial ground which was desecrated by archeologists in the late 19th and early 20th century. Harlan Ingersoll Smith, an archaelogist from

567-749: The region. The Vancouver Park Board and the Metro Vancouver Regional Parks maintains a total of 10 parks in Dunbar–Southlands, including the Pacific Spirit Park , which contains 55.5 km of trails. The Dunbar Community Centre is jointly operated by the Vancouver Park Board and the Dunbar Community Centre Association. The Vancouver Public Library also maintains a branch in the Dunbar–Southlands district. The Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services operates

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594-571: The skin off and leave the meat there. It is a living for the Indians, it is a pleasure for the whites, and about the ducks it is the same way. When the Whitemen go out, they shoot all descriptions of ducks and leave them floating in the sea, but when the Indians go out shooting, they know when they have enough but the Whiteman never knows, and about the fish it is the same way. The Whitemen use a long net, and whenever they get so much fish that they cannot sell them, they throw them overboard – but

621-461: The traditional territory of the Musqueam people as follows: The lands, lakes and streams defined and included by a line commencing at Harvey Creek in Howe Sound and proceeding Eastward to the height of land and continuing on the height of land around the entire watershed draining into English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm; South along the height of land between Coquitlam River and Brunette River to

648-469: The upriver dialect. The Cowichan, Chemainus, Snuneymuxw and neighbouring Coast Salish peoples of Vancouver Island and the parts of the Gulf Islands of the southern Gulf of Georgia speak a third dialect, Hulquminum ( Hul'qumi'num ' ), often called the straits or island dialect. It is not to be confused with North Straits Salish , which is a group of related dialects to the south. In early 2018,

675-485: Was buried under a sheet of glacial ice. In 1908, the land in the Dunbar area was owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway and was part of the now defunct, Municipality of Point Grey . At that time, the land was unstable for development. The first non-native settlers purchased a lot on 22nd Avenue. By 1927, the area was served by three streetcar routes. Dunbar–Southlands became a part of Vancouver in 1929 when

702-478: Was named by Captain Vancouver for his friend Captain George Grey . The Spaniards, a year earlier, had named it Punta de Langara in honour of Admiral Don Juan de Langara . Point Grey was also a shortened name for the Municipality of Point Grey, created in 1908 when it separated from the Municipality of South Vancouver. The municipality's eastern boundary south of 16th Avenue was Cambie Street, and Blanca Street

729-399: Was so massive that its winding path created the Fraser River ( stal̕əw̓ ). All living things that crossed the serpent's path were said to have died, and from the serpent's droppings bloomed new life – river grass – which grew abundantly around the serpent's home. The people of the area therefore named the land xʷməθkʷəy̓əm . The Musqueam people have lived in

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