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July 30, 2024


‘We Want to Blanket Ken with Love Today’

As a geophysical search of Lejac Residential School gets underway, homemade quilts honour survivors. The Tyee: Ken’s family, who is from the Stellat’en First Nation, had returned to the Fraser Lake area after Indian Affairs told them that the children couldn’t attend the public school where they had been living in Burns Lake, about an...

March 27, 2024


Land purchase protects sacred Lightning Rock site

NationTalk: ABBOTSFORD – Sumas First Nation (Semá:th) and the Province are taking a major step in their shared reconciliation journey through the purchase and acknowledgment of a sacred site. The Province has purchased 36 hectares of undeveloped private property in Semá:th territory. The Lightning Rock site holds deep cultural and spiritual significance, serving as a...

December 13, 2023


New book preserves Haida law through the seven steps of a wedding

By Odette Auger, Windspeaker Buffalo Spirit Reporter Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson (Haida, Raven clan) is a musician, activist, artist, lawyer, and author. Her latest book is created with her husband, renowned Haida artist Robert Davidson (Eagle clan). Together in A Haida Wedding  from Heritage House, they document the seven steps of guud ‘iina Gihl (becoming married) in Haida law. The book,...

November 29, 2023


Indigenous non-profit buying land near site of former First Nation village on Salt Spring Island

Stqeeye’ Learning Society aims to use Xwaaqw’um Valley property for education, harvesting, cultural rites CBC Indigenous: Posted: Nov 29, 2023 4:37 PM EST | Last Updated: November 30 A 10-acre (four-hectare) parcel of land on one of B.C.’s Southern Gulf Islands will soon become property of an Indigenous-led non-profit society. The land on Salt Spring Island is near where...