Английская Википедия:Chinlac
Шаблон:Coords Chinlac is the site of a former Dakelh (Carrier) village in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. The site is on the west bank of the Stuart River, about Шаблон:Convert upstream from its junction with the Nechako River. Oral tradition considers it to have been one of the major Carrier settlements. The site is located at a shallow point in the river where a fishing weir could be used to harvest running salmon.[1] Remains of the weir can still be seen from the meadow.
Chinlac is an anglicization of Carrier word Chunlak, itself a contraction of duchun nidulak - "logs customarily float to a point", which describes the way in which driftwood accumulates in the shallows where the weir was built.[2]
According to oral tradition, the village was destroyed around 1745 by Chilcotin raiders from Nazko, on the Nazko River. (Although Nazko is now a Carrier village, it was Chilcotin at the time.)[3] The meadow contains the traces of 13 lodges. In the surrounding bush are the remains of hundreds of cache pits.
One lodge site was excavated in 1951–1952 by a team led by Charles Edward Borden. Among other things, he found a Chinese coin, indicating the existence of trade routes with the Pacific Coast, perhaps in the late 18th century, prior to the Carriers' direct contact with Europeans.[4]
References
External links
- "Tragic Chinlac still shunned", Vancouver Sun, 9 November 2007
- ↑ Morice, Adrien-Gabriel. 1905. History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Toronto: William Briggs. pp. 14-19.
- ↑ Poser, William. 2008. Saik'uz Whut'en Hubughunek - Stoney Creek Carrier Lexicon. Vanderhoof: Saik'uz First Nation. p.53.
- ↑ Morice, Adrien-Gabriel. 1905. History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia. Toronto: William Briggs. pp. 14-19.
- ↑ Cranny, Michael William. 1986. Carrier settlement and subsistence in the Chinlac/Cluculz Lake area of Central British Columbia. MA thesis, University of British Columbia.
