In Into That Country to Work by Mica Jorgenson she talks about the First Nations peoples and where they were around the time of the big gold rush in the British Columbian interior, Barkerville. Mica uses a multitude of resources to back up her work, which made the topic of argument of her paper very convincing. Mica started out mentioning that there were a lack of evidence of First Nations presents in the northern regions of British Columbia around the time of the gold rush, but then follows it with the research of the numerous resources she used stating otherwise. She went through multiple records to find that there were various groups of First Nations around Northern regions of British Columbia, and that they moved around for the different jobs that came with the seasons in the sense of gathering, hunting, fishing and other seasonal jobs also jobs that came around during the gold rush time. The First Nations did populate the area but we gone before the miners came or that they were killed off by the disease like smallpox or measles or influenza that the europeans brought over with them that the First Nations weren’t immune to, which had taken a very heavy toll on the density of population of the First Nations in northern British Columbia. Mica continues to go into detail of tall the areas that the First Nations were, and the dynamic of how they moved around from place to place for what the First Nations needs were at different times of the year.
