数十年的记录历史、古老歌谣和家族谱系已正式回归不列颠哥伦比亚省和平地区的条约8号第一民族。
Decades of recorded history, ancient songs, and family genealogies have officially returned home to Treaty 8 First Nations in B.C.'s Peace Region.
历经六十余年的筹备，里迪顿达内扎档案库于周五在不列颠哥伦比亚省圣约翰堡举行的仪式上，被归还给条约8号第一民族。
More than 60 years in the making, the Ridington Dane-zaa Archive was repatriated to Treaty 8 First Nations during a ceremony in Fort St. John, B.C., on Friday.
这份庞大的档案库包含超过8000张照片、数百小时的音视频录音，以及追溯家族谱系源流的文字记录。
The vast trove includes more than 8,000 photos, hundreds of hours of audio and video recordings, and textual records tracing the lineage of family genealogies.
人类学家罗宾·里迪顿在维多利亚的家中向100多名听众表示：“我希望这份档案能公正地呈现所有不同的讲述者。我希望达内扎族的后代能够聆听和阅读这份档案，并在他们自己的时代受到启发。”
"I hope this archive gives justice to all of the different story tellers. I hope future generations of Dane-zaa will listen to and read the archive and be inspired in their own generations," anthropologist Robin Ridington told an audience of more than 100 people from his home in Victoria.
里迪顿于20世纪50年代末首次来到该地区。当时，作为一名被“回归土地”运动所感召的年轻人，他从美国北上。“我当时在帮朋友们搭建小屋，他们以为那里是无人居住的荒野，”他回忆道，“我很快就意识到这是错误的。” 圣约翰堡周报通讯 茨瓦森第一民族迎回一个世纪前被夺走的圣物 毕生事业 里迪顿后来返回美国，并将大学专业改为人类学。
Ridington first came to the region in the late 1950s, when he ventured north from the United States as a young man swept up in the back-to-the-land movement "I was helping friends build a cabin in what they thought was unoccupied wilderness," he recalled. "I quickly learned that this was wrong." Newsletter to the Fort St. John Weekly newsletter Tsawwassen First Nation welcomes back sacred object taken away a century ago A life-long project Ridington later returned to the U.S. and changed his university major to anthropology.
20世纪60年代，他与当时的妻子安东尼娅·米尔斯重返不列颠哥伦比亚省东北部。他们的家庭开始与达内扎族长者合作，记录传统歌曲、口述历史以及跨越六十年的日常生活。
In the 1960s, he and his then wife, Antonia Mills, came back to northeastern B.C. Their family began working alongside Dane-zaa elders to record traditional songs, oral histories, and everyday life spanning six decades.
对于原住民社区而言，那是一个经历重大变革和动荡的时期。他们在加拿大的保留地制度和《印第安人法》下遭受了巨大的苦难，同时工业开发导致该地区人口迅速定居。
It was a time of significant change and upheaval for Indigenous communities, which experienced considerable hardships under Canada's reserve system and Indian Act, and as industrial development led to rapid settlement across the region.
“我学到的第一件事就是做一个好的倾听者。每一个故事都与其他故事相连。我所认识的长者出生于19世纪末，这在现在看来就像古代历史一样，确实如此，”里迪顿说。
"The first thing I learned was to be a good listener. Every story is connected to every other story. The elders I came to know were born at the end of the 19th Century, which now seems like ancient history, and it is," Ridington said.
“但他们随身携带了从长辈那里学来的故事，所以这些故事可以追溯到许多许多代以前，”他说。
"The first thing I learned was to be a good listener. Every story is connected to every other story. The elders I came to know were born at the end of the 19th Century, which now seems like ancient history, and it is," Ridington said.
从磁带到云端，如今，该家族数以千计的历史音频卷轴、盒式磁带、视频和照片已经从原始格式数字化，占用了14太字节的数据存储空间。
"But they carried with them the stories they had learned from their elders, so the stories go back many, many generations," he said. From cassette to the cloud Today, thousands of the family's historical audio reels, cassette tapes, videos and photographs have been digitized from their original file formats, consuming 14 terabytes of data storage.
这些丰富的资料帮助解决了不列颠哥伦比亚省“第8号条约”领地内八个原住民社区悬而未决的土地主张问题。它们也正在帮助年轻一代重新发现自己的历史。
The wealth of materials have helped settle outstanding land claims across the eight First Nations communities in B.C.'s portion of Treaty 8 territory.
不列颠哥伦比亚省的报告为遣返原住民物品和遗骸提供了“路线图”。归还62件原住民文化遗产是迈向真相与和解的一大步吗？
They're also helping younger generations rediscover their history.
先知河原住民社区（Prophet River First Nation）成员夏安·凯撒-科南特（Cheyenne Kaiser-Conant）表示，该档案已被用于为年轻人制作语言学习游戏，包括将流行的桌面角色扮演游戏《龙与地下城》改编为原住民版本。
B.C. reports offer 'road map' for repatriation of Indigenous items, remains Is the return of 62 Indigenous cultural belongings a big step for truth and reconciliation? Cheyenne Kaiser-Conant, a member of the Prophet River First Nation, said the archive has been used to create language learning games for youth, including an Indigenous adaptation of the popular tabletop role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons.
“看到这些档案回到社区，我感到非常兴奋，”凯撒-科南特说。“能够更方便地获取现有的语言资源，听到我们的长辈、我们的祖先说话，这意义重大。”
"I'm very excited to see the archives come back to the communities," Kaiser-Conant said. "Having easier access to be able to listen to the potential language resources that are available, being able to hear our elders speak, our ancestors speak.
不列颠哥伦比亚省东北部的考古遗址承载了12500年的原住民历史（6月16日，时长）。来自艾伯塔省大草原城的电影制作人伦·莫里塞特（Len Morrisette）正在利用这些档案制作一部关于先知河社区的纪录片。
Northeast B.C. archaeological site home to 12,500 years of Indigenous history June 16 Duration Len Morrisette, a filmmaker from Grande Prairie, Alta., is using the archive for a documentary he is making about Prophet River. "The recordings and beautiful photos, I'm just barely scratching the surface," Morrissette said.
“这些录音和精美的照片，我目前只是触及了皮毛，”莫里塞特说。
"Every nation is different. Different teachings, different ways; some have dreamers, medicine men. It's just been really cool to have a source to go to." Vital for cultural revival The archive, however, were not always easily accessible and once at risk of degradation and being lost.
“每个民族都不一样。有不同的教义，不同的方式；有些民族有梦想家，有巫医。能有一个可以查阅的资料来源，真的很棒。”对于文化复兴至关重要。然而，这些档案并非一直都能轻易获取，且曾一度面临退化和丢失的风险。
"Every nation is different. Different teachings, different ways; some have dreamers, medicine men. It's just been really cool to have a source to go to." Vital for cultural revival The archive, however, were not always easily accessible and once at risk of degradation and being lost. Though Ridington maintained the collection privately, he frequently shared his reels and other records with families.
尽管莱丁顿（Ridington）私下保存了这些藏品，但他经常与各个家庭分享他的卷轴和其他记录。
Over the decades, he sent out "hundreds and hundreds" of cassette tapes to community members eager to hear recordings of their relatives singing.
数十年来，他向渴望聆听亲属演唱录音的社区成员寄出了“数百乃至上千”盒磁带。百年前被盗的帐篷顶盖终于将被归还给萨斯喀彻温省。
Teepee cover stolen 100 years ago finally being repatriated to Sask.
“人们会一遍又一遍地播放这些磁带，直到它们磨损殆尽，”他说。“但现在我们有了数字技术，这些歌曲和故事变得更加普及和易于获取。”自2020年起，团队开始对馆藏内容进行编目和数字化处理，目前相关工作仍在进行中。
"People would play them over and over again until they just wore out," he said. "But now we have digital technology and now these songs and stories are more available and more accessible." Efforts to inventory and digitize content in the collection began in 2020, and materials are still being processed. Ridington’s daughter, folklorist Amber Ridington, believes the archive is one of the largest collection of ethnographic material about sub-Arctic people in the world.
里迪顿的女儿、民俗学家安珀·里迪顿认为，该档案库是世界上关于亚北极地区人群规模最大的人类学资料收藏之一。
She said the records contains sacred and culturally sensitive knowledge, including accounts of residential schools, displacement, and the colonial impacts of racism and violence.
她表示，这些记录包含神圣且具有文化敏感性的知识，包括对寄宿学校、流离失所以及种族主义和暴力殖民影响的记述。
She said the records contains sacred and culturally sensitive knowledge, including accounts of residential schools, displacement, and the colonial impacts of racism and violence.
由于这些信息多年来被分散存储在数十个硬盘和不同的文件格式中，识别原始母带需要大量的协作，她说。
Because the information was scattered across dozens of hard drives and file formats copied over the years, identifying master materials required significant collaboration, she said.
“这些是……家庭的嗓音、故事、歌曲和历史，”她说。“今天真正重要的是将它们归还给它们本应归属的人们。”更多来自不列颠哥伦比亚省北部的故事守护未来 第八条约部落协会成为该收藏的新管理者。
"These are ... families' voices, stories, songs, and histories," she said. "Today is really about bringing them back to the people where they belong." More stories from Northern B.C. Preserving the future The Treaty 8 Tribal Association is the new steward of the collection.
该协会正与当地社区和家庭合作，探讨如何管理这些资料，以及哪些记录（如果有的话）将向公众开放。档案管理员丹妮·雷诺夫表示：“我们是为社区托管这些资料。”
The association is working with local communities and families on how the materials will be managed and which records, if any, will be made available to the public. "We hold it in trust for the communities," said archive manager Denée Renouf.
黎明北方 第六十年：第八条约历史回归家园 雷诺夫表示，该收藏将帮助该协会追究政府在违反第八条约方面的责任。
Daybreak North Six decades of Treaty 8 history returning home Renouf said the collection will help the association hold governments accountable for breaches of Treaty 8.
“我们有一些可追溯至1990年代和1980年代的访谈和研究，”雷诺夫说。
"We have some interviews and studies going back to the 1990s and 1980s," Renouf said.
但这比那还要早二三十年，这为我们理解历史以及理解那些本应兑现的承诺，又增添了另一种声音。
"But this is two, three decades before that, which adds just another voice to our understanding of history, and the understanding of the promises that were supposed to be kept."