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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joe Clemine recalls some aspects of Indian life in the Dog Creek - Alkali Lake area, 1860 to 1920. Clemine discusses his family background and the land they lived on. He describes the Indian attitude toward land. He speaks of his grandfather, and how he used to raise horses. He describes packers and pack trains in the area. He offers a detailed description of the Alkali Lake Reserve and the 1862 smallpox epidemic. He discusses his school days at Mission School and the conditions of life for Indians at school.

TRACK 2: Mr. Clemine discusses Native schools in the 1960s. Then he discusses the Indian way of life: hunting, food, clothes, houses, stories of various altercations between Indian tribes, and the Indian religion.

Amateur film. Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941. Includes footage of wagons en route to the Williams Lake Stampede; rodeo events (various horse races, bucking broncs, etc.); Indians at stampede playing the team gambling game "lahal". Unidentified Indian village or mission settlement(s); boys at the swimming hole; women display their embroidery; fiddler plays and women with cane dances a jig. Livestock. Dip net fishing in Fraser River. School and convent buildings at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake. Beaver aircraft at dock and taking off from lake. Staff of Williams Lake Indian Hospital. Views of landscape, back roads, wooden fences, steam shovel, etc. Dip net fishing. Dog Creek village scenes; displaying bead work. Views of and from the Dog Creek Road; Indians on horseback; cattle and cowboys on road. Examining a man with trachoma (eye condition). Car negotiating steep switchbacks; road conditions alternately dusty and muddy.