1923 Amalgamation

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What do you know about our Amalgamation?

*Please note: Before contact we did not navigate within our territory by means of an outlined/defined map. We navigated from knowledge of the land and the seasons.

In 1923 most of our leaders gathered together and decided it was in the best interest for all of our people to amalgamate into a single governing body. By this time, so much has happened to the loss of our land and we were losing a lot of everything due to the rapid economy and population growth. Our Squamish people petitioned to Dr Duncan Campbell Scott and listed the reasons why, especially pointing out that we would mirror their government system of a council to transact affairs in cooperation with the Indian Affairs Department. This is the time we no longer followed a hereditary chief way of life. It was a decision for the good of the people but it can be argued that there was not much choice.