Tag Archives: First Nation Where I am standing feels like a long way from anywhere. In fact, the border of Alaska is just over the mountains you see in the picture above – just 16 kilometres (10 miles) to the west. But, the only way to cover that gap is by boat or plane. Gingolx (Kincolith) is a small […]  The Nisg̱a’a people have lived in the Nass River Valley since before recorded time. Today, these lands are geographically part of northwestern British Columbia (BC), Canada, roughly in line with the tip of the Alaska Panhandle and only a short distance away as the crow flies. By any other means of transport, they are a […]  The Wild West is a place of legends and stories… Few are more moving than that of Sacagawea (Bird Woman), the Lemhi Shoshone woman, kidnapped in 1800 by a raiding party of Hidatsa when she was about 12, and a year later, given or sold, along with another young captive Shoshone girl, to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper. Thirty-four year old Charbonneau was […] |
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