| On July 25, 2008, a keynote speech was given prior to completion of the Archaeology Field Program in Canada. Lily Henry Roberts provides a blog keynote that documents most her experiences in the thick forests of Canada on an island near Hope, British Columbia. It is in that setting where the keynote speakers and her team are studying the complex story of a First Nation tribe titled the keynote grouping who lived there more than 10,000 years ago. Our keynote address is employed intimately with the Chapatti and Shxwowhamel Bands of Solo First Nations, and we were fortunate to wager an oral story from historian Sonny Challises. For the best view of the keynote speaker, we climbed aboard boats and floated down the middle of the rushing water. It is here that we saw the land the artifact the People of the River saw it - majestic and powerful, rising up all around us. On the river, the conference keynote speaker spoke of tales passed down by elders, particularly those addressing how the concern was once chaotic but came to be ordered by the Exalts, powerful transformers who prefabricated the concern morally right. |