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August Jack (Khatsahlano, Xats'alanexw) (July 16, 1877 – June 5, 1971)〔(page 8A )〕 was an Indigenous/Aboriginal chief of the Squamish people. He was born in the village of Xwayxway on the peninsula that is now Stanley Park, Vancouver, or at ''Chaythoos'', British Columbia, Canada and the son of Supple Jack “Khay- Tulk” of Chaythoos and Sally “Owhaywat” from the Yekwaupsum Reserve north of Squamish, British Columbia. His grandfather was Chief Khahtsahlano of Senakw (aka Snauq or Sun'ahk) who had migrated from his home at Toktakanmic on the Squamish River to Chaythoos, and the man from whom he inherited his name. The suffix “lan-ogh” in their name means “man”.〔 http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=6177〕 ==Life== August Jack’s father died the day he was born, and his mother remarried Shinatset (Jericho Charlie). One day soon after Supple Jack’s burial at Chaythoos, city surveyors unexpectedly started chopping down his family's house while they were inside. They were to build a road around the area, naming it Park Road. As August Jack recalls in his conversations with J.S. Matthews, the road around the park “did not touch my father’s grave, so they left it there, but when it came we had to move away. We had to move out of the house and they tore it down, but they left the grave for a long time, until after Lord Stanley named the park. Then they took the coffin up to Squamish”〔http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/digitized/EarlyVan/SearchEarlyVan/Vol6pdf/ http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=6177〕 He lived at the village of Snauq until 1913 when the government bought the reserve land. He then moved to the Squamish reserve and married his wife Swanamia (Mary Anne) They had five children together: Emma, Celestine, Wilfred, Irene, and Louise. August Jack and his family lived in Squamish for years, and moved to multiple Sḵwxwú7mesh villages including Xwemelch'stn, Stawamus and Snauq for a short time, but they ultimately moved back to Squamish where they had their own home on the reserve. August Jack worked in logging and trapping in the area built canoes, totem poles and carvings, drove logs down the Squamish River and “often ferried many of the Squamish Indians to Vancouver in his large, heavy canoes”〔http://squamishlibrary.digitalcollections.ca/chief-august-jack;isaar〕 Swanamia and August Jack remained here until his death.〔 http://www.miss604.com/2012/07/vancouver-history-chief-august-jack-khatsahlano.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「August Jack Khatsahlano」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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