Mission schools
- Identifier
- 1.02357
- Title
- Mission schools
- Scope and contents
- Item is a photograph of a meeting of the Mission area Bands. The photograph is an interior snapshot of an audience seated around a microphone in an auditorium. There are also two people standing along the wall at the side of the room.
- Date
- November 1978
- Spatial Coverage
- Hope (B.C.)
- Context
- The meeting was held to discuss the $407, 971 being charged to Mission area Bands by the Mission School Board to pay for a school the DIA agreed to fund in 1972. On November 1, 1978, the Mission School Board passed a resolution stating that status children would be barred from public schools in the Mission district if the Bands did not pay the money for the building of a high school that was already constructed five years earlier.
- Physical description
- 1 photograph : b&w acetate negative; 35 mm
- Related materials
- Related article appeared on pages 20 and 21 of UBCIC News vol. 7, no. 1 (November 1978), entitled "Indian Control of Indian Education: A Crisis".
- Statement of Responsibility
- Basil, Steven (photographer)
- Rights
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- Rights Holder
- Copyright held by Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
- To request permission for use or copies please contact the UBCIC Library and Archives.
- General notes
- Title transcribed from label on page protector containing contact sheet
- Last Modified
- September 16, 2024
Part of Mission schools