"...This was made by the Snow-On-Rock people. They use to live up the coast, up where the glaciers drop to the sea from the mountains. They use to live up where the streams and rivers start, at the base of the glaciers. Up in the mountains. Of course, there isn't much else up that way except ice and mountain; if you're going to live up there, that's what you've got to live with. So their name comes from the glaciers and the mountains there. It also comes from the stone work they were known for, where they used white rocks like this and uncovered images in the black stone underneath. They were considered to be responsible for the waters that feed the streams, and the streams are the lifeblood of the valleys... This stone would have been passed around, and talked over by countless people through a long part of the past. Something of that will always be with this". Part of what the First Nations Elder, Warchief, told me when I showed him the first example of image writing I found;  as quoted in Semiotext[e] Canadas, 1994 (page 110).