Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley
A collaboration between the Sq’éwlets First Nation, the Stó:lo Research and Resource Management Centre, Ursus Heritage Consulting, and team of archaeologists, software developers and designers. See full credits.
Funded by Virtual Exhibits Investment Program, Virtual Museum of Canada. The Virtual Museum of Canada is managed by the Canadian Museum of History, with the financial support of the Government of Canada.
Launched in 2017
http://www.digitalsqewlets.ca/
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley is an online project that is the product of a major interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collaboration. It is the work of community leaders, anthropologists, historians, media specialists, and other content experts. It stems from a collaborative relationship formed 25 years ago between Chief Clarence Pennier of Sq’éwlets and archaeologists from the University of British Columbia and Stó:lō Nation. A partnership was formed in 1992 to excavate, examine, understand, and protect the ancestral archaeological resources at one of the Sq’éwlets community’s primary ancestral sites, Qithyil. Based on several decades of community-based archaeology, oral history, and ethnohistorical work, and the recent production of short video documentaries, the website presents a long-term perspective of what it means to be a Sq’éwlets person and community member today. It also resulted in a series of physical exhibitions at the Chilliwack Museum & Archives, the Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford, and the Bill Reid Centre at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.
The virtual exhibit was launched in January 2017 at http://www.digitalsqewlets.ca/
*Winner of the 2018 MUSE Silver Award for Online Presence , American Association of Museums
*Winner of the 2017 Best Interactive Media Award, Society For Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival (Washington DC)
Publications and Exhibitions
Hennessy, K., Lyons, N., Schaepe, D., Blake, M., Phillips, A., Pennier, C., Muntean, R., and Kadir, A. (2018)
Collaborative Digital Curation and Recursive Publics: the Making of Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley.
Proceedings of Museums and the Web, 2017, Vancouver: Archives and Museums Informatics (link).
Schaepe, D., Pennier, C., Hennessy, K., and Lyons, N. 2017)
Digital Sq’éwlets: A story of belongings, worldview and teachings. University of Melbourne Collections Issue 20, June 2017 (Special Issue: Future of the Object Symposium). Pp. 62-67.
Hennessy, K., Schaepe, D., Kadir, A., Lyons, N., and Pennier, C., with the Sq’ewlets Advisory Group and the Chilliwack Museum and Archives (2017)
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley. Exhibition of digitalsqewlets.ca. Cholliwack Museum and Archives, Chilliwack BC, Nov. 2 – April 28, 2017.
Hennessy, K., Schaepe, D., Kadir, A., Lyons, N., and Pennier, C., with the Sq’ewlets Advisory Group [co-curators] (2017)
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley. Exhibition celebrating the launch of digitalsqewlets.ca. Reach Gallery Museum. Abbotsford BC, January 26 – May 7 2017.
Lyons, N., Schaepe, D., Hennessy, K., Blake, M., Pennier, C., Welch, J.R., McIntosh, K., Phillips, A., Charlie, B., Hall, C., Hall, L., Kadir, A., Point, A., Pennier, V., Phillips, R., Muntean, R., Williams, J. Jr., Williams, J. Sr., Chapman, J., Pennier, C. (2016)
Sharing Deep History as Digital Knowledge: An Ontology of the Sq’éwlets Website Project. Journal of Social Archaeology, Fall 2016 (DOI: 10.1177/1469605316668451), 26 pages. [pdf]
2011 Natasha Lyons, Andy Phillips, Dave Schaepe, Betty Charlie, Clifford Hall, Kate Hennessy, and John Welch.
The Scowlitz Site Online: Launch of the Scowlitz Assemblage Project.
The Midden (Publication of the Archaeological Society of British Columbia) 43(2):11-14.