#nwac

[themoosefish]

Dreaming of snow that’s a pleasure rather than a threat. Stay safe and check the avalanche forecast before you go out. Tap the pic to see some avalanche center accounts or visit avalanche.org. — 📍On the lands of the Wenatchi people. — #avalanche #avalanchesafety #avalanches #nwac #snow #snowscience #hiking #snowshoeing #adventure #washington #pnw #pacificnorthwest #northwest #alpinelakeswilderness #mountains #mountainlovers (at Snoqualmie Pass, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmj6DDuPvgN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#avalanche #avalanchesafety #avalanches #nwac #snow #snowscience #hiking #snowshoeing #adventure #washington #pnw #pacificnorthwest #northwest #alpinelakeswilderness #mountains #mountainlovers

[verbaldiaryofcoachjt]

Wow. What a year. This group committed to trusting each other and the process. They committed to being ambitious, self-aware, and supportive. The trusted A.S.S. is always reliable. This team embodies that spirit. Good habits and great character. We want to make @camosunchargers and @camosun the best place in Canada to play college ball. We want it to be a joyful experience. While we may not be 100% there, we definitely took a giant step in that direction. I'm so grateful and proud to be their coach. I've learned so much from everyone in these pictures as we've grown together. We did the dirty work and took home the dirty gold. A 5 win improvement including 7 wins over teams ranked in the top 15 and the #nwac north region champs, 10th in 🇨🇦 and 🥉 in BC. Stay hungry my friends, there are great things ahead. #camosunchargersbasketball #camstate💙 #PACWESTBC #CCAA #chargerswbball #character #yearofthedonkey (at Camosun College Chargers) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpgCpRaPdVp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#nwac #camosunchargersbasketball #camstate💙 #pacwestbc #ccaa #chargerswbball #character #yearofthedonkey

[kitthomasart]

She:kon, spot my print? ✨🌙🐺 @nwac_canada NWAC’s #MMIWG unit has curated and installed a commemorative art exhibition honouring our lost and stolen relatives to the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, transgender, and gender-diverse (MMIWG2S+) genocide. The art exhibition is located in the “vault” on the first floor of NWAC’s new head office. It features art pieces made by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women across Turtle Island and Inuit Nunangat. Read more of this Journal entry by clicking on the link in our bio/about section and scroll down to Journal. #nwac #nomorestolensisters #mmiwg2s #mmiwawareness #indigenouswomen #2slgbtqia #mmiwgt2s #nativeamerican (at Native Women's Association of Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch7UtxHr1ok/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#mmiwg #nwac #nomorestolensisters #mmiwg2s #mmiwawareness #indigenouswomen #2slgbtqia #mmiwgt2s #nativeamerican

[pixierainbows]

www.nwacs.info

#nwacs #aac communication #aac user #full time aac user #actually nonverbal #actually disabled #actually autistic

[humanrightsconnected]

It’s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples! Learn from Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Illuminative, Lakota People's Law Project, Native American Rights Fund, Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), NDN Collective, and PINGO’s Forum how to defend Indigenous rights! 

#indigenous #indigenous rights #indigenous women #indigenous peoples #indigenous people #indigenous culture #native #natives #native american #native americans #ndn #american indian #first nations #land back #landback

[mountrainiernps]

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than what we could learn from books.” – John Lubbock

When it comes to learning from nature, winter can be a very clear and crisp teacher. If you see one avalanche, you know immediately that the natural processes at work in this season are strong and dangerous.

Avalanches can occur on many slopes in the national park. The wonderful folks at the Northwest Avalanche Center, NWAC, (their forecasts cover our mountain hint hint) have great educational opportunities for learning about avalanches. The science is just as incredible as avalanches are dangerous.

Before you venture away from the parking lots, it is a good thing to find out about avalanches and what you can do to stay safe.

What do you do to learn about winter recreation before you visit the national park?

Have you taken an avalanche class either in person or online?

Are you now a snow geek, sending observations to NWAC to help out your fellow winter recreationists?

Park information on winter safety can be found here https://www.nps.gov/mora/planyourvisit/winter-safety.htm  Northwest Avalanche Center is at Home - Northwest Avalanche Center (nwac.us)

NPS/S. Lofgren Photo. View looking up a snow blanketed Panorama Point after an avalanche has come down. Crown of avalanche visible at top of ridge and snow debris in chunks at the bottom of the ridge. January 2019. NPS/C. Roundtree Photos. Side by side images of Comet Falls. Left image from July 31, 2011 shows Comet Falls water falling over cliff into a narrow canyon with evergreen trees on each side. Right image from July 16, 2012 show Comet Falls water falling over cliff into canyon partly filled with snow from a winter avalanche with some broken trees showing.

#mount rainier national park #mount rainier #winter #national parks #snow #avalanche #recreation

[missegyptiana]

MMIWG2S. the missing, murdered indigenous women, girls and two spirited people around the world. And please educate yourself and others on this horrific topic and spread it around. May 5th every year is the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) in Canada. Also known as Red Dress Day. On this day, participants are encouraged to display empty red dresses in public spaces or wear red dresses to show support for the lives of MMIWG. More information, help line, donations and more below. Please add more resources to this post if you find some! NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS.

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/aftercare-services/

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/i-have-brought-the-mmiw-epidemic-to-the-forefront-the-powerful-image-of-a-red-handprint/

https://www.amnesty.ca/what-we-do/no-more-stolen-sisters/stolen-sisters-what-can-i-do/

https://www.csvanw.org/mmiw/

https://www.nativejustice.org/mmiwg2s

https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/communique/2018/11/standing-sisters

https://guides.library.ubc.ca/mmiwg

Where to donate to the MMIWG2S movement:

https://www.nwac.ca/donate/

https://www.nwac.ca

https://mmiwresources.carrd.co

#tw murder #tw indigenous violence #indigenous #mmiwawareness #mmiwg2s #mmiwg #red shirt #red shirt day #important #resources #donations #mmiwgt2s #mmiw #signal boost #reblog #national red shirt day

[carrieeve]

It was always you

Bellamy and Clarke have been best friend for most of their lives. They had big, ambitious dreams and they helped each other achieve them--it was Clarke who convinced Bellamy to give his musical career a shot and it was Bellamy who supported Clarke as she tried to get her writing going.

Now that they are both at the peak, their lives are changing once again but at least they have each other. There's just that one little detail, where Bellamy wishes Clarke doesn't pick up on the fact that his new album is about Clare and Clarke doesn't want him to figure out that the happy ending she wrote for her characters is the one she's been hoping for the two of them...

moodboard by @luminouswriter // donation made to The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) // @t100fic-for-blm

#the 100 #bellarke #bellarke fanfiction #bellamy blake #clarke griffin #i wrote a thing #calebrity au

[allthecanadianpolitics]

#submission

[marklyndersay]

Nefta Kojo performed Dance of Hope with Kaiso House in 2023. She made her debut with the tent in 2006 after performing with Klassic Russo for 17 years. She began singing professionally at the age of 15. Kojo has been a finalist multiple times at the NWAC Calypso Queen competition. She wrote new work during the two years of the pandemic and started a natural fruit juices business. #calypso #kaiso #tent #music #Carnival #singer #performance #trinidad #trinidadandtobago #tuco #kaisohouse #portofspain #queensparksavannah #motherofallcarnivals #2023 The Calypsonians 2020 began as an attempt to survey and record in portraits the calypsonians working in tents during each year's Carnival season. It is an imperfect record, dependent on the willingness of individuals to participate and tents to accommodate the project. The first photographs were made in 2020 with visits to five calypso tents. During the pandemic, it was continued in 2021 and 2022 with photos done in an office at the studios of WACK TV during streaming sessions hosted by the station. (at Queen's Park Savannah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpOmJBTu7qV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#calypso #kaiso #tent #music #carnival #singer #performance #trinidad #trinidadandtobago #tuco #kaisohouse #portofspain #queensparksavannah #motherofallcarnivals #2023

[nwacs]

New on the NWACS Blog! As we wrap up December 2022, we are highlighting Right #15 of the Communication Bill of Rights: The right to have culturally and linguistically appropriate communications. 

From the blog:

"At its core, we all have a responsibility to confront our own biases and continually learn to do better by our AAC users, full stop. We have an obligation to respect and uphold their right to culturally and linguistically appropriate communication. And the entire Communication Bill of Rights."

Visit the blog to explore resources, strategies, and considerations for culturally and linguistically responsive AAC practices.

#aac #augmentative and alternative communication #augcomm #communication bill of rights #assistive technology #speech language pathology #neurodiversity

[coochiequeens]

Indigenous rights advocates in Canada and the United States have renewed longstanding calls for concrete action to stem disproportionate rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls in both countries.

Thursday marks Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day in the US, while it is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), otherwise known as Red Dress Day, in Canada.

“The Federal Government has an obligation to ensure that cases of missing or murdered persons are met with swift and effective action,” US President Joe Biden said in a proclamation recognising the day.

“My Administration is fully committed to investigating and resolving these cases through a coordinated law enforcement response, as well as intervention and prevention efforts. We are also dedicated to researching the underlying causes of this violence and to working with Native communities to address them,” Biden said.

Indigenous communities have sounded the alarm for years over the disproportionately high number of women, girls and two-spirit people who have been killed or disappeared in the US and Canada. Two-spirit is a term used by some Indigenous people to describe their gender and spiritual identity.

Advocates also have denounced systemic inaction on the part of government and law enforcement agencies to address the issue.

In 2014, the federal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) reported that nearly 1,200 Indigenous women had been murdered or gone missing in Canada between 1980 and 2012 – but advocates say the real number was likely much higher.

A National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2019concluded that the violence “amounts to a race-based genocide of Indigenous Peoples” that especially targets women, girls and members of the LGBTQ2S+ community.

“This genocide has been empowered by colonial structures … leading directly to the current increased rates of violence, death, and suicide in Indigenous populations,” it said.

But Indigenous community advocates say too little has been done to address the problem.

“Almost three years after the National Inquiry into #MMIWG released their Final Report, we are still waiting on the concrete actions that must be taken outlined in the Calls for Justice,” Lynne Groulx, CEO of the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), said on Twitter on Thursday.

In the US, the National Crime Information Center in 2016 documented 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, according to a report by the Urban Indian Health Institute (PDF).

“The Center[s] for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that murder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native women and that rates of violence on reservations can be up to ten times higher than the national average,” the report also said.

A 2016 study by the National Institute of Justice also found that 84.3 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native women have experienced violence in their lifetime, including 56.1 percent who have experienced sexual violence, the US Department of the Interior says on its website.

US interior secretary Deb Haaland, the first Indigenous person to head a cabinet agency in the history of the country, held an event on Thursday to recognise National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.

“Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community, but a lack of urgency, transparency and coordination have hampered our country’s efforts to combat violence against American Indians and Alaska Natives,” Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, said in a statement.

“As we work with the Department of Justice to prioritize the missing and murdered Indigenous people’s crisis, the Not Invisible Act Commission will help address the underlying roots of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis by ensuring the voices of those impacted by violence against Native people are included in our quest to implement solutions.”

The US Congress signed the Not Invisible Act into law in October 2020, just months before Biden took office, and the commission aims to increase coordination and implement best practices to fight “the epidemic of missing persons, murder, and trafficking” affecting Indigenous communities.

In Canada, communities are hanging red dresses on Thursday to symbolise the many Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered in the past decades.

“I’m wearing red on #RedDressDay to remember all the #MMIWG and to honour their families and communities. I’m wearing red also because I continue to hold a vision of the future where our women and girls are protected and treated with dignity and respect always,” RoseAnne Archibald, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada, tweeted.

“On May 5, we will see the red dresses suspended from trees, hanging from windows, swaying in the breeze. But we will see much more than that. We will see the people who would have worn those crimson garments,” Lorraine Whitman, president of NWAC, said in a statement this week.

“They were our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our aunties, our friends … We want to know what happened. How were they taken from us? And why? But mostly, we want to know that other families will be spared this pain.”

#May 5th is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG #RedDressDay

[5gdiginews]

UCC freshman Brooklyn Fely selected NWAC Women's Basketball Player of the Year

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[pixierainbows]

#NWACS #aac #aac user #actually nonverbal #actually autistic #actually disabled #AAC myths

[drmaqazi]

SAHIH AL-BUKHARI, Book 8, Hadith 35

Chapter (22): To offer As-Salat (the prayers) on the bed

باب الصَّلاَةِ عَلَى الْفِرَاشِ

وَصَلَّى أَنَسٌ عَلَى فِرَاشِهِ.

وَقَالَ أَنَسٌ كُنَّا نُصَلِّي مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَيَسْجُدُ أَحَدُنَا عَلَى ثَوْبِهِ

Narrated `Aisha (RadiyAllahu ‘anhaa) :

Allah’s Apostle (SallAllahu ‘alaihi nwac Sallim) prayed while I was lying like a dead body on his family bed between him and his Qiblah.

حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي عُرْوَةُ، أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ، أَخْبَرَتْهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ يُصَلِّي وَهْىَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْقِبْلَةِ عَلَى فِرَاشِ أَهْلِهِ، اعْتِرَاضَ الْجَنَازَةِ.

Reference

: Sahih al-Bukhari 383

In-book reference

: Book 8, Hadith 35

USC-MSA web (English) reference

: Vol. 1, Book 8, Hadith 380

(deprecated numbering scheme)

[fieldofhate]

#canada #zine #pdf #indegenous