A land claims researcher with the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs who works with her community on projects such as Indigenous cultural heritage, land use studies, language revitalization and crown land referrals will give a talk at the University of Northern British Columbia.
Angie Bain is a Nlaka'pamux researcher from Lower Nicola, B.C. near Merritt who will be at UNBC on Tuesday to discuss her work as a Volume Editor and member of the Indigenous Advisory on the Frank Boas Paper Project. It's a project in collaboration with the University of Western Ontario, the American Philosophy Society, and Nebraska Press.
The talk at 3:30 p.m. in the Weldwood Theatre is free and open to the public. The Northern B.C. Archives is organizing the presentation as part of the Archival Connections Speakers Series.
"Angie Bain's presentation on her extensive archival research experiences will bring the audience along on a fascinating journey of knowledge repatriations from archives across North America, to cultural revitalization within her Nlaka'pamux community in the Lower Nicola Valley," said Erica Hernandez-Read, the Interim Head, Archives and Special Collections, at the Northern BC Archives.
Bain's community in the Nicola Valley has been working to set up a repatriation committee and visited the Royal B.C. Museum and the Peabody Museum at Harvard.
Bain will speak about the intersection of her work in all these realms, and how the work of ethnologist James Teit and her involvement in the Boas Papers Project has led her and her colleagues on a research journey that has brought them from Merritt, to Gatineau, Philadelphia, New York and beyond.
