The Carrier Sekani Tribal Council brings together seven member nations to unify our voices and strengthen our inherent indigenous rights, title, and interests in our territories.
CSTC Staff (Darien, Christina, and Soryoung) visited Wet’suwet’en nation March 18th – 19th to provide status cards and meet with the community!
We appreciate the warm welcome to their traditional territory and we hope to come again soon!
We’ve just wrapped up the year-long project Coming Home: Gathering the Lost Documentary Heritage of the Dakelh and Sekani Peoples here at the CSTC Library and Archives. Funded by Library and Archives Canada’s Documentary Heritage Communities Program, this initiative allowed us to identify and inventory records from each of our member nations, covering the period of our collaboration. These comprehensive lists have been shared with the administrations of both current and former member nations, and they are now accessible to everyone through our CSTC Library and Archives Online Collection website. Simply search for your community’s name to explore the related records.
As part of this project, we also spent time answering questions and conducting training sessions. To support ongoing learning, we created a series of tutorials on how to register for an account, navigate the platform, and conduct searches. You can find these tutorials on our main CSTC website under Library and Archives > Additional Resources.
Please note: While the inventory lists are publicly available, access to digitized records is restricted to CSTC community members and requires account registration. Once registered, you’ll gain access to over 1,300 digital photos, 500+ sound recordings, 80+ videos, 450 maps, and 75+ textual documents.
We encourage you to explore this incredible resource, which offers a rich history of the Tribal Council and the Dakelh and Sekani peoples in Northern and Central British Columbia since the early 1980s. Dive in and discover your history!
This project was designed to create an inventory list for each CSTC member nation (both former and current) that would help identify records at CSTC relating to the period of time we worked together. We have added these inventory lists to our CSTC Library and Archives Online Collection website, where community members can register for an account to have access to these records online, and then once registered, to simply do a search by their community name. Besides creating the community inventory lists, we have created training sessions and tutorials that will provide instructions on how to use the website, how to register, and how to perform searches.
You can find all of the training resources on our main CSTC website HERE. (see below)
Presently, there are 6 Member Nations in the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (Nadleh Whut’en, Ts’il Kaz Koh, Stellat’en, Wet’suwet’en, Saik’uz, and Takla Lake First Nations), and many former Member Nations (Tl’azt’en, Yekooche First Nation, Binche Whut’en, Tsay Kay Dene, Lake Babine Nation, Cheslatta Carrier Nation, Lheidli T’enneh First Nation, Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation, Nee Tahi Buhn and Skin Tyee). Since part of CSTC’s mandate is to protect and preserve the identity of Carrier (Dakelh) and Sekani people of North Central British Columbia, this project will achieve the organization’s mandate by increasing accessibility to the documentary heritage in our collection.
“Funded by Library and Archives Canada.”
« Financé par Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. »
