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rigin of this term comes from the widows of Dakelh men who carried around their cremated remains for a period of mourning that lasted approximately three years. Spiritual beliefs include. The spiritual beliefs of the Dakelh people

Figure 1. Lejac Residential School
Dakelh meaning “people who travel by boat” occupied territory along the Fraser River from north of Prince George to south of Quesnel, the Nechako Valley, the areas around Stuart Lake, Trembleur Lake, and Fraser Lake, and the region along the West Road and Blackwater Rivers, west to the Coast Range, including the Kluskus Lakes, Ootsa Lake and Cheslatta Lake. Prince George, Vanderhoof, Fort Saint James, Fraser Lake and Quesnel are in Dakelh territory. (Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://maps.fphlcc.ca/dakelh). The Dakelhs lively hood depended mainly on the abundance of salmon. However, they also hunted moose, deer and other wild game found in their region and wild plants were also a part of the Dakelh diet. When Lejac Residential school closed in 1976 the land was transferred back to the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation and the buildings were demolished. The only evidence of the former school that still remain is the Roe Prince memorial and the cemetery.

Figure 2. Lejac Residential School, Central Interior BC 1922- 1976 (Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, 2013

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