As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation
1700S
The Cree take over parts of the Peace
area pushing the Beaver further south into Sekani territory. Intermarriages
began between the Beaver and Cree tribes.
1763
Britain,
France and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, marking the end of the Seven Year
War. Consequently Britain’s King George III publicizes a document referred to
as the Royal Proclamation of 1763 wherein the British make official claims to
North American Territory. Their claims for sovereignty included the land which
is now known as British Columbia.
1782
Louis
Kwarakwentha Calliou L'Iroquoise, patriarch of the Kelly Lake Cree Nation, born
1782, Iroquois Village of Chaughawaga near Montreal, Quebec, died 1846 at
Wilmore Wilderness National Park.
In
1782, the Beaver began receiving guns through trade and the power of the Cree
was balanced. This led to a conclusion of the conflict between the Beaver and
the Cree. The two groups met at Peace Point along the Peace River. The two
tribes agreed to boundaries. It is said that this was where the Peace River
received its name.
1787
Alexander
Mackenzie reported that the Beaver occupied the vast regions from what is now
known as the Saskatchewan to the Peace River in the North and the Lesser Slave
Lake in the south
1799
Chaughawaga
Iroquois from Lower Canada came to the west to trade with the Beaver and Cree
tribes. The story of the Iroquois free traders that arrived in the west in the
early 1800s derives from this timeline and historical accounts of families who
inter-married with the Iroquois establish this timeframe.
1803
It
was reported by Peter Fidler, a mapmaker of the Hudson Bay Company fur trade,
there were 110 Iroquois-Cree on the Peace River near the Rocky Mountains.
1811
David
Thompson claimed discovery of the Athabasca Pass. Thomas Calliou would show
David Thompson the mountain pass to the Columbia.
1824
The
Cree/Iroquois clan traded goods with the Shuswap in an area at Wells Gray Park
part of Shuswap territory called "kelentem named after the Cree
invaders."
1855
Magloire
Belcourt was born at Jasper House
1859
James
Hector of the Palliser Expedition: “found a camp, four tents of
Iroquois…These.. were originally trappers in the service of the N.W. Company,
and on the junction of that company the Hudson Bay Company (1821) they turned
“freemen”…they all talk the Cree language besides their own, and have latterly
intermarried a good deal with the Cree of Lac Ste. Anne.”
1876
Thomas
Karaconti Calliou, L'Iroquoise, born 1806 Jasper's House, (Alberta) died April,
1876 Fort Dunvegan, (Alberta)
1899
Algonkian
speaking Suealteaux Indians from the Great Lakes area of Eastern Canada had
arrived, and would make their home in the South Peace area
1907
Compiled
from surveys done at Flyingshot Lake settlement several of the families of
Calliou, Campbell, Belcourt, Letendre mentioned in the official plan as
occupants identified are mentioned later at Kelly Lake, B.C.
1914
S.
Prescott Grey in a study of bighorn sheep “One Calliou, of Iroquois ancestry
was reported to have travelled to Grande Prairie alongside Alex Monkman (which
Monkman Park is named after this man) in 1898.”
The
Saulteau adhered to Treaty 8.
1915
Our
ancestors were pushed out of Jasper House and Mt. Robson due to the Canadian
Northern Pacific Railway line.
1916
Settlers
flooded the Flying Shot Lake area near Grande Prairie, Alberta pushing the
Indian settlement families out of Grande Prairie area.
1983
Archaeological
evidence show a human presence dating back 10, 500 BP in the South Peace area.
1996
Kelly
Lake Cree Nation file a comprehensive land claim.
