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The mining industry is the second largest primary sector in BC. Despite this tremendous growth, our people continue to experience living conditions well below the Canadian average. We have not benefited significantly from the rapid development occurring on and around our traditional territory. Members of the Nation continue to rely on hunting, trapping, fishing, and other subsistence activities for basic necessities in most households. The pressures on the land from rapid resource development make these activities increasingly difficult. The past and current alienation of Indigenous peoples from natural resource use and from territorial land uses continues to contribute to difficulties faced by Indigenous communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/5376a2ca-3c78-4b9f-9db4-f3acf185fb26/810469-web-traplines.jpg Who We Are - A traditional way of life Our people maintained a semi nomadic and subsistence lifestyle until the late 1980s, living off the land in small encampments near rivers, lakes, and hunting camps in subalpine valleys, for most of the year. Our lifestyle was based on cyclical hunting and harvesting. Maintaining a relationship to the land played an integral part in our culture and spirituality. https://www.kellylakecreenation.com/history daily 0.75 2022-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/5b15aae1-89d4-4a7c-9175-108b5bccc06c/Paul-Kane-Jasper-House-1846-Watercolour-over-graphite-on-paper-133-x-225-cm.jpg History By the end of the 18th century, young Iroquois men began to take employment as voyageurs and middlemen with the North West Company, travelling as far as the Rocky Mountains and forming encampments in the areas around Jasper House, Finlay River, Pouce Coupe, and Dunvegan. Through generations living and working on the land, the Iroquois intermarried with neighbouring Cree and Beaver peoples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/45daa418-aa14-495b-999d-49f1f1cc1473/Cree800.jpg History Fur trading posts established after 1670 began a period of economically motivated migration. The Cree of the Algonquian linguistic stock began to migrate westward from the Hudson Bay region. They moved gradually into the territory of the Beaver, with whom they engaged in inter-tribal warfare over a period extending roughly from 1717 until 1760 (H.B.C. Arch. 8239/a/1; Jenness 1972:385). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/04e91743-fd17-49df-a1cc-bbb3e8728e8b/Jody_Calliou_Canoeing_Fishing_Blue_Lake.JPG History Kelly Lake Cree Nation evolved through exclusive use and occupation of the land and by practicing a variety of gathering, hunting, trapping, traditional and customary practices. Our people have continued to live a traditional way of life (i.e., hunting and trapping), preserving the Cree language, customs and governance structure of how ancestral families govern our territory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/3fb02f47-041b-444b-8da7-eff05adf4a8f/IMG_0309.JPG History As As’in’î’wa’chî Ni’yaw people continue today, our ancestors moved seasonally throughout the traditional territory, occupying and using all areas of the territory. Though our ancestors had actively used, camped at and travelled through the area for time immemorial, they founded what was to become the permanent community at Kelly Lake around the turn of the 20th century. The founding of the present-day community of Kelly Lake should be understood as a single point in a long continuum of traditional use and occupancy. https://www.kellylakecreenation.com/territory daily 0.75 2022-01-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/d3f795f9-7e64-471d-bc84-2f1449c30590/Calliou+Lake.jpg Territory - Ancestral Lands We have never surrendered Aboriginal rights and title to our lands. Although, the resource sector and government continue extracting resources from our territory without our consent, our people have a vision. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/ecfa4f1b-b896-4a30-a8fd-f59421b6aa55/ANN+territory+map.jpg Territory - Traditional Territory Our people never placed boundaries over their territory. They followed the seasonal rounds for hunting, fishing, gathering and trapping, and built camps in strategic locations to support their survival. The traditional territory of the As’in’î’wa’chî Niyawak encompasses, but is not limited to, the tributaries where the Fraser River meets the Athabasca River to the north where the Smoky meets the Peace River, east to where the Peace meets the Mackenzie River (Williston Lake). These tributaries served as a trading corridor with other tribes such as the Sekani, Ktunaxa and Shuswap tribes. Our territory extends into parts of northern BC and Alberta some 40,000km2, including Jasper National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61c369425014452951b8d9a5/803de594-043a-4e19-bfd8-7656a2cb73d9/14543686_10153844214015841_5455341395169945077_o.jpg Territory - Kelly Lake, BC At the heart of the Kelly Lake Cree Nation’s traditional territory is the community of Kelly Lake. Located in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 1.6 kilometers inside the British Columbia border, 80 kilometers south of Dawson Creek, British Columbia via Highway 2 and Highway 52, and 75 kilometers west of the nearest city Grande Prairie, Alberta. 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