[BCMA] Canyon War kicks off Knowledge series

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Canyon War kicks off Knowledge series "Winter 2010: First Nations, First
Peoples, First Voices" January 15, 7:00 p.m.

 

 

 

Canyon War Productions and the New Pathways To Gold Society are pleased
to announce that Canyon War: the untold story will be the first
documentary shown in Knowledge's "Winter 2010: First Nations, First
Peoples, First Voices" series. This three-week series focus on the
people who came first - programs by and about aboriginal peoples from
local, continental and global perspectives.

 

Don't miss this revealing story of greed, violence and heroism
surrounding the 1858 war between the NLaka'pamux Nation and Fraser River
gold miners, vividly brought to life by co-hosts Kevin Loring (a
Governor General Award-winning playwright and actor from the Lytton
First Nation) and University of Victoria history professor Dr. Dan
Marshall.   

 

About Canyon War: The Untold Story: This documentary shines a light on
this shadowy chapter in B.C.'s history. This revealing story of greed,
violence and heroism during the 1858 war between the NLaka'pamux Nation
and Fraser River gold miners kicks off Knowledge's "Winter 2010: First
Nations, First Peoples, First Voices" series. The three-week series
focus on the people who came first - programs by and about aboriginal
peoples from local, continental and global perspectives.

 

The documentary is vividly brought to life by co-hosts Loring and
Marshall. Loring's descendants resisted the thirty to forty thousand
gold seekers who flooded into the Fraser River in 1858 while Marshall's
ancestors were among the gold-seekers.  

 

 

For more information, please contact:

 

Don Hauka, Communications Consultant,

604-524-1884 or ddclauka at shaw.ca

 
 
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