Website Project & Partners

Website Project

The Upper St'át'imc History Through Photographs website project was initiated through an application to the University of Victoria CURA program by Marilyn Napoleon of the Upper St'át'imc Language, Culture and Education Society (USLCES). Together with Dr. Andrea Walsh of the department of Anthropology a proposal was submitted to create a community research based website that profiled the history and stories of the Upper St'át'imc peoples through photographs.

The aim of the website project was to create a portal through which USLCES could conduct community research about Upper St'át'imc history and peoples through photography. We were interested in how photographs taken by non-native photographers for reasons other than strictly ethnographic knowledge could be utilized by the contemporary Upper St'át'imc peoples to record their history. The website was created and designed in a way that USLCES is able to add more photographs and text as their research progresses and more of the community views the photographs on line. It is our hope that this site will continue to evolve over time to incorporate more and more Upper St'át'imc voices to the images present at the launch of this site.

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