First Nations

Many First Nation groups across British Columbia are also dealing with the mountain pine beetle in a very large way.

Plan on selling this wood to the primary lumber industry? It might cost you more to get it out of the bush.

I have put a program together to help anyone with access to this wood to sell rough cut lumber.

We are seeking metric sizes, preferably kiln dried 6-9%, invoiced by the cubic meter, shipped to Vancouver BC.

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The following text will give you a little history

and information about my band in Edmonton.

Papachase

First Nations Website

Papastew Dit Papastayo the chieftain was born in the Beaver Hills east of Edmonton.

His names mean Big Woodpecker in Cree, which is now the band's logo.

It is a coincidence, that the woodpecker is the Mountain Pine Beetle's natural enemy.

Chief Papaschase, his 6 brothers and their families moved to the Edmonton area in the late 1850's from the Lesser Slave Lake area.

It appears they travelled and hunted in the Fort Edmonton, Fort Assiniboia and Lesser Slave Lake areas for some time before making Edmonton their home.

Their band settled there and traded with the Hudson Bay Company

and was employed with them from time to time.

On August 21, 1877, Chief Papaschase (also known as Passpasschase, Papastew, Pahpastayo, and John Gladieu-Quinn) and his brother Tahkoots, a Headman, signed an adhesion to Treaty 6 on behalf of the Papaschase band at Fort Edmonton.

In 1877, the Hon. David Laird, Lieutenant Governor and Indian Superintendent for the North-West Territories, recommended to the Department of Indian Affairs that surveyors be sent to lay out Indian reserves for the Edmonton Bands, however, no action was taken by the Federal Government to survey a reserve for the Papaschase Band until 1880.

By 1879, the buffalo had become virtually extinct and the Indians in the Edmonton area were suffering from severe starvation.

Although a general famine had descended upon the Indians of the North-West Territories, the Federal Government of Canada did not provide necessary and sufficient relief to the Papaschase band or other bands as promised under the terms of Treaty 6.