Lekwungen

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  • Xwi7xwa Names for BC First Nations

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Hierarchical terms

Lekwungen

Lekwungen

Equivalent terms

Lekwungen

  • UF Songhees
  • UF Songhees Indians
  • UF lək̓ʷəŋən

105 Archival description results for Lekwungen

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Russell Station House

Item consists of one photograph of Russell Station House. A different copy of this photograph (PN06670) identifies this as a Songhees temporary dwelling.

Land office blotter

The item is a volume titled land office blotter. Blotters were used to record detailed trading activity. Only one page has been used. The page describes two financial transactions with the Hudson's Bay Company.

The first transaction relates to 200 pound sterling received from James Cooper, Master of the Hudson's Bay Company ship Columbia, as a deposit on a land purchase in September 1849.

The next relates to the trade of 535 blankets on the 6th of May, 1850. The blankets were paid to several Indigenous groups "for purchase of their lands as per details in Register of Land Purchases", also known as the Douglas Treaties. The names, transcribed directly from the blotter, are: Tee-chamitsa, Kosampsom, Swenghung, Chilcowitch, Whyomilth, Checonein, Kakyaakan, Chewhaytsun, and Soak.

This record was likely created by James Douglas, as it appears to be written in his handwriting [see Wilson Duff, "The Fort Victoria Treaties", BC Studies No. 3 (Fall 1969): 8].

Songhees Feast

One of three photographs from this series representing Songhees. The photographer has written: [in pencil] "Indian distribution feast by the Songish Indians Victoria Harbour V.I. No. 11. [in ink]: View of a great Potlach when over $3000 and 200 blankets with ten guns were given away. The night before the distribution the invited guests assemble in one of the largest huts, and the Indians who are going to give away goods and presents on the morrow, tear up a blanket and call out the name of one of the visitors present, and give him a strip or shred of the blanket which is to be given up when he receives a present, in exchange for the shred of blanket. I was present at a great Potlach when living in Victoria V.I. Fredk. Dally."

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