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system was the customary land governance structure (pre 1846) of the Stuart Lake
Carrier peoples for at least 500 years and it continues today. Each Keyoh consists of an extended family and a Keyoh Chief (Holder or noble) appointed per keyoh system customs. Furthermore, each Keyoh Chief could decide
85:. In gratitude, Simon Fraser presented Kw'eh with red cloth. In 1997 the red cloth was returned to the state of Canada by Kwah's descendant, Ts'ohdai Pete Erickson in a symbolic gesture of the deplorable relationship between the State of Canada and Dakelh people.
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Klippenstein, Frieda Esau, "The
Challenge of James Douglas and Carrier Chief Kwah," in Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History, (2nd ed.), edited by Jennifer S.H. Brown and Elizabeth Vibert, pp. 163–192, Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario,
96:. He was also known for his acquisition of an iron dagger prior to the arrival of the first Europeans in the area, presumably one traded in from the coast. He is an ancestor to a large percentage of the Carrier people in the
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Bishop, Charles A., "Kwah: A Carrier Chief," in Old Trails and New
Directions: Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference, C.M. Judd & A.J. Ray (eds.), Toronto, 1980, pp. 191–204.
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Haindene. Descendents of Kwah - a Carrier Indian genealogy. Fort Saint James: Carrier Linguistic Committee and Necoslie Indian Band.
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Yahulduk - Nak'azdli Elders Speak, Penticton, B.C.: Theytus Press, 2001.
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Morice, Adrien-Gabriel (1904) History of the
Northern Interior of British Columbia. Toronto: William Briggs.
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