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Totem Pole Raised at the Dr. Peter Centre
Aug 21, 2024 VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 21, 2024- The Dr. Peter Centre is honoured to announce the raising of a totem pole on August 13, 2024, marking a significant step in the Centre’s commitment to reconciliation and community healing. The event took place on Unceded Coast Salish Territory, with Elders, community members, and supporters attending the […]
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Rod Bandura of Margit Sky Project to be focus of documentary ‘Littlesky’ – Castanet
Aug 19, 2024 A Dutch filmmaker will be returning to Kamloops in September to finish shooting a documentary about Margit Sky Project musician Rod “Little Sky” Bandura, who died earlier this year. Director Benjamin Webster said he was living in Amsterdam when he went to the World Press Photo exhibition. He came across the exhibition’s […]
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Yintah: A story of Indigenous resistance – Spring Magazine
August 19, 2024 In settler-colonial society, we constantly declare and acknowledge that we reside and gather on the “unceded territory” of Indigenous peoples. But do we ever stop to wonder if our declarations reflect our realities? As its rightful stewards, do Indigenous peoples decide the fate of the land? Yintah, the Hot Docs 2024 Audience […]
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One of world’s oldest sacred shrines could return to Nootka Island – Times Colonist
Aug 06, 2024 The shrine was removed by George Hunt and Franz Boas in 1904 while the community was away for seasonal hunting. One hundred twenty years after a sacred shrine was taken from Nootka Island, members of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht First Nations are working to get it back from the American Museum of Natural History […]
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Hit the road: 5 places to explore on Vancouver Island before summer runs out – Oak Bay News
There’s B.C.’s best beach, festivals, new park space and more This August long weekend, the Filberg Festival celebrates 40 years of art, live music and nature. Over 100 talented artisans and makers of fine art will display their wares on the grassy lawns of the Filberg Heritage Lodge and Park under the trees, alongside food […]
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B.C. Day 2024: What’s happening around Metro Vancouver over the long weekend – Edmonton Journal
Aug 01, 2024 The statutory holiday lands on Monday, Aug. 5, wrapping up a long weekend of festive fun around the Lower Mainland. Find out more B.C. Day, a provincial statutory holiday, is on Monday, Aug. 5, this year. This is the culmination of Pride-oriented festivities that kick off across the country during June’s Pride […]
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One of the world’s oldest sacred shrines could return to remote Indigenous settlement in B.C. – Windspeaker.com
July 31st, 2024 Members of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations Whalers’ Shrine Repatriation Committee travelled to New York recently in an effort to try to bring back one of the world’s most sacred structures. Committee members went to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to formally meet with the museum’s Cultural Resources Office. The representatives […]
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Canadian staff honoured by Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation – North Island Gazette
July 30, 2024 The Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation and Mowi now grow 10,000 tonnes of salmon annually at six farm sites Mowi’s Diane Morrison and Ian Roberts were honoured to be “blanketed” by the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation in the small coastal village of Klemtu during a ceremony and dinner held this week to celebrate the […]
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The clocks can’t turn back’: Vancouver Pride Society gears up for its biggest Pride season – Prince George Post
Jul 30, 2024 Veteran drag artist and activist Jaylene Tyme looks back and ahead as Canada Pride 2024 launches. Jaylene Tyme remembers a time when the Davie Village was the ground-zero safe gathering space for members of the 2SLGBTQAI+ community. And how bold an action the annual Pride parade and other Vancouver Pride Society events […]
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‘We Want to Blanket Ken with Love Today’ – The Tyee
As a geophysical search of Lejac Residential School gets underway, homemade quilts honour survivors. Ken Luggi and Jim Foote shared a classroom for only a brief time. 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 […]
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