THE NEW RELEASE BY
7 TIME NATIVE AMERICA MUSIC AWARD WINNER
JIM BOYD
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| SEVEN TIME NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD WINNER AND STAR OF THE PBS TELEVISION SPECIAL "NATIVE AMERICA, THE GATHERING OF THE FOUR WINDS" JIM BOYD. We Are Sinixt, Credits: Jim Boyd (vocal, guitars, bass, drum group vocals), Doc Holiday (Keyboards), Shelly Boyd (drum group vocals), Written by Jim Boyd, Produced by Jim Boyd and Doc Holiday, recorded at Rez Recording in Inchelium, Washington & The Power Plant Studios in Hampton, Virginia. |
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| The year I was born in 1956, the Canadian government said our people were extinct,
but make no mistake, we are still here! ...Jim Boyd
My name is Jim Boyd and I have lived most of my life in the Inchelium area of the Colville Indian
Reservation. My mother Violet Boyd, and my father Louis Boyd both had lineage from Sinixt
Arrow Lakes in what is now British Columbia.
Although the Sinixt original territory was vast, the location that my family was from was a place
where the Canadian government started, but failed to establish a reserve for our people. This was at
kp'itl'els, which was an ancient Sinixt trading site and village. The result was the exile of many
Sinixt people. By 1900, My great grandfather Baptiste Christian and his family were among the
few Sinixt survivors still living there. Time and time again Baptiste and his family asserted their
ancestral rights to kp'itl'els and expressed their deeply felt attachment to it, only to be forced from
their land that had been their family head quarters for many generations.
The only Sinixt reserve ever recognized by the Canadian government, the Arrow Lake Indian Band,
was formed in 1902 at Oatscott, which was on the west side of upper Lower Arrow Lake. In 1956
when Annie Joseph passed away, the Canadian Government declared the Sinixt Arrow Lake
people extinct. At that time there were still hundreds of Arrow Lakes people living in their territory
and on the Colville Indian Reservation in the United States.
Today, with many Sinixt people still living on both sides of the 49th parallel, The Arrow Lakes
Aboriginal Society strives to advance the rights, title, and interests of all Lakes people. I am
honored to hold the position as Facilitator of this organization and strive to help bring us all
together to achieve the recognition we deserve as Lakes/Sinixt people. We are still here!
For more information, write to Jim Boyd at P.O. Box 384, Inchelium, WA. 99138, or email
ArrowLakesAboriginalSociety@gmail.com. And check out www.myspace.com/arrowlakesaboriginal
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