Secretariat

Identifier

1.03452

Arrangement

1.06 Communications series. 1.06-03 Photographs and images sub-series.

Title

Secretariat

Scope and contents

Item is a photograph of a meeting of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Secretariat that took place on March 19th, 1979. Representatives from the Okanagan Tribal Council and the Saanich School Board participated in the meeting. The photograph is an interior snapshot of members of the Secretariat sitting together around a long table. The individuals shown in the image from left to right are Percy Tate of the Nisga'a Tribal Council, Richard Nerysoo (Native Brotherhood NWT) and Mary Easterman (Yukon Native Brotherhood).

Date

Year

Month

Day

Spatial Coverage

Subject

Government, Federal/Indigenous relations

Names

Okanagan Tribal Council

Saanich School Board

Tate, Percy

Nerysoo, Richard

Dene Nation

Easterman, Mary

Yukon Native Brotherhood

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs

Nisga'a Tribal Council

Context

The Secretariat was a monthly meeting set up in May 1978 between UBCIC portfolio holders and top executives of the Department of Indian Affairs. The Secretariat held in March 1979 was attended by representatives from the Saanich School Board and the Okanagan Tribal Council. Concern about the Local Services Agreement reporting system and the subsequent postponement of the signing deadline were discussed, as well as the D.I.A. Information Services proposal of forming a resource centre. The resource centre would have been a costly duplication of resources, providing identical services to the UBCIC Resource Centre. The Saanich School Board also brought up their development of an alternative for school dropouts, expressing that funding should be provided by the D.I.A.

Secretariat