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Over time, Thunderbird Park has meant many things to many people. To the Lukwungen (Songhees and Esquimalt) First Nations who occupied this landscape for centuries, it was a place for gathering food plants, hunting birds and animals (including deer and elk), and fishing in nearby James Bay. Today, it is a place of learning, and a place for reflection on the lives that have gone before us. |
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Agnes George shows some of her freshly dried salmon. Mrs. George was born on the Old Songhees Reserve and was one of the last fluent speakers of Lukwungen (Leküngén), a dialect of a language referred to by linguists as North Straits Salish. BC Archives: E-02534 |
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Sophie Misheal, Andrew Misheal and Jimmy
Fraser (Songhees): collecting, soaking and shredding cedar bark for
dance regalia, 1952. RBCM STR-F-001, STR-F-002. |
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