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The Snuneymuxw First Nation and the province of B.C. have completed a significant 212-hectare land transfer, which the Snuneymuxw are calling an important step in reconciliation.
The parcel of land on Te'tuxtun, known as Mount Benson East, is located just south of Nanaimo, B.C., on Vancouver Island. It's the first of a series of anticipated land transfers agreed upon by the nation and the province back in 2020.
The remaining land, about 1,166 hectares, is expected to be transferred back to the nation in the near future, the nation said in a Thursday release.
"It's very, very exciting, and a long time coming," said Snuneymuxw Chief Mike Wyse in the release.
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Wolf found the were-orcas!
At Petroglyph Park on Vancouver Island, one can see the rock carvings found within Snuneymuxw First Nation territory, some of which are over a thousand years old. These particular ones seem to be a split representation of sea creatures with wolf heads.
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News from Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, 18 July
A teenager in Nanaimo, Canada, has been sentenced for assaulting another youth with bear spray.
The incident occurred on a public bus when the victim was ordered to remove his jacket, leading to an altercation. The teenager, who was known to the police and judicial system, hit the victim with a baton before using bear spray on him.
The teenager was caught with bear spray again a few weeks later and was on probation at the time.
The prosecutor mentioned that there is a concerning problem with the use of weapons, particularly bear spray, among young people in Nanaimo.
The defense attorney blamed the teenager's poor choice of friends and enabling adults for his behavior.
The teenager's behavior improved after living with a family friend who provided housing outside of Nanaimo. The judge praised the family friend for their support.
2. The Nanaimo Systems Planning Organization (SPO) is working to find homes for those in need and prevent homelessness through coordination, diverse housing options, and community engagement.
Approximately 6,000 residents in Nanaimo are living on the edge of homelessness, with a 20% increase in homelessness from 2020, highlighting the urgent need for housing solutions.
The Nanaimo SPO is collaborating with community stakeholders to address the housing crisis, including Island Health, BC Housing, and the Snuneymuxw First Nation.
3. Daily closures are taking place on Hwy. 4 at Cameron Lake to allow for rock scaling work, temporarily disrupting the only highway link connecting Tofino, Ucluelet, and Port Alberni to the rest of Vancouver Island.
Westbound and eastbound traffic will be permitted for one hour each day, with the highway closing again in the afternoon and reopening for single-lane alternating traffic in the evening and overnight.
These closures are expected to continue until mid-August, aiming to fully reopen the highway and ensure the safety of motorists.
4. The British Columbia coroner has released a public safety advisory regarding wildfire smoke after verifying that a nine-year-old boy's death was exacerbated by the smoke.
According to the coroner's report, Carter Vigh from 100 Mile House tragically passed away due to a medical condition aggravated by the hazardous smoke. This devastating loss has deeply impacted his family and the entire community.
5. The chief of a municipal police force in Metro Vancouver is criticizing British Columbia's drug decriminalization policies as ineffective in addressing the ongoing overdose crisis.
The early evaluation of the decriminalization policy shows that it has not led to the desired outcome of reducing overdose deaths.
The number of overdose deaths in the province closely resembles the figures from the same period last year, indicating the lack of impact from the decriminalization policy.
6. The Powerball lottery jackpot in the U-S has climbed to one-billion dollars while Canada's Lotto Max lottery jackpot for tonight has grown to 70-million-dollars.
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🇨🇦 Day 2 ⛴🌊⛰ #LooseInCanada #BCFerries #Nanaimo #malahatskywalk . . . . I would like to acknowledge we are on the traditional and unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples, today known as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations, Malahat, Pacheedaht, Scia’new, T’Sou-ke, W̱SÁNEĆ (Pauquachin, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseycum) peoples, the K’ómoks First Nation, including Sathloot, Sasitla, leeksun, Puledge, Cha’chae, and Tat’poos Peoples, Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, Quw’utsun, and Tla’amin First Nations. (at Nanaimo, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChlsHfvOrCy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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The B.C. government announced a significant shake-up of the board of commissioners for BC Housing on Friday evening.
The province said in a statement that the board would be led by Allan Seckel and Jill Kot, Sheila Taylor, Mark Sieben, and Russ Jones.
The changes are "effective immediately," the statement reads. The review focused on BC Housing's "organizational capacity and financial systems" and was released on June 30th.
The review made 26 findings and 44 recommendations for potential improvements to BC Housing's operations.
Many of the recommendations centred around better defining roles and expectations and improving oversight of BC-Housing-managed facilities.
The government announced the appointments of Seckel, Kot, and Taylor when it released the report last month, but it made no mention of Sieben and Jones.
Clifford White of Gitxaaa Nation and Douglas White of Snuneymuxw First Nation – were also announced as new board members at the time.
The province said Friday that the remaining board members announced in June – meaning White and White – would begin their appointments on July 18.
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More perspectives in this article. Daniel Wagner spoke to several Indigenous artists about the mask and the issues of appropriation.
According to Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, a Coast Salish artist and storyteller from the Snuneymuxw First Nation, the issue is not that Holtby wants to use Indigenous art on his mask, but that it was not done by an Indigenous artist.
“The appropriation of Indigenous art is harmful,” said White-Hill. “I think of the potential for respect and representation to be shown and how much it would mean to see that done in a meaningful way, and what that would mean for future generations seeing themselves represented. So it makes it very frustrating when there are opportunities and interest for respecting and holding up Indigenous cultures and art and instead of doing that and going to the source, the choice is made not to and instead to use methods that are appropriative.”
“I appreciate that Braden Holtby felt it important to connect with the regional Indigenous culture here in B.C. and that he wanted to celebrate and honour it with his mask,” said White-Hill. “That is important and I am glad for that. I hope that this can be a good learning experience, and I hope we continue to see opportunities to celebrate Indigenous culture in the NHL.”
The Canucks play on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples — the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations — so incorporating Coast Salish art would be appropriate. That’s not what appeared on Holtby’s mask, however. “The design is not Coast Salish. It’s a Kwakiutl or Kwagiulth totem pole design,” said Xwalacktun, an artist and carver with Squamish and Kwakwaka'wakw ancestry. “We just want to make it authentic.”
“I think it could be a collaboration,” said Xwalacktun. “It’s making that connection with First Nations artists. If he wanted to use his artist, he could just collaborate with a First Nations artist to help design it, then he can put it on the helmet. Then it wouldn’t be an issue, as long as the other artist has been acknowledged.”
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Nanaimo Petroglyphs
The Nanaimo petroglyphs are a group of rock carvings in Petroglyph Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.
The images – depicting everything from mystical wolf-like creatures and sisiutl (legendary half mammal water serpent) to fish and human figures – were made for a variety of reasons, including territorial ownership and to commemorate special events among a people with no written language.
Locations for rock art carvings were chosen carefully, and were almost always made at places of power or mystery – places where the forces of nature were believed to be especially strong. These areas are usually marked by natural features such as waterfalls, rock formations or caves, and most are near water.
The petroglyphs are the property and heritage of the Snuneymuxw tribe, a First Nations people of the Northwest Coast.
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MY Eco Action program
To start off this blog I first want to acknowledge that I currently reside on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen and WSÁNEĆ peoples. I think it is important to acknowledge whose territory I am on to honour those and their ancestors who have protected and cared for the land, its plants and animals, the water, and the sky since long before the arrival of colonizers. I see it as my responsibility to be respectful to the wishes and will of these peoples and how I live on their territory, as well as to educate myself on what it means to exist on someone’s territory uninvited, and what I should in turn do in response to this reflection and understanding.
To briefly self-locate I am the daughter of Orland Wayne Mitchell Moyou and Tracie Lee Fawkes. I am Cree/Métis on my father’s side and I am English/Snuneymuxw/Cree/Icelandic on my mother’s side. I am 29-years-old and I am in my second year of pre-social work at Camosun College, and I am hoping to transfer to UVIC in 2021 to finish a BSW with an Indigenous specialization.
In the coming months I will be volunteering with the MY (Métis Youth) Eco Action program, which is funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada Service Corps initiative. It is providing an opportunity for Métis Youth to learn how to support and advocate for Métis-inclusive reconciliation in Canada, through a Métis cultural land-based, environmental perspective. This program will link us youth with Elders and traditional Knowledge Keepers, so that we can learn about Métis traditional ways of the land, including responsibility and stewardship. This is an opportunity to connect with the land, which is a vital Indigenous-specific social determinant of health, while also learning about Métis specific culture and history. This will help expand our understanding of who the Métis people are and what our unique environmental needs are.
I am still exploring what kind of meaningful land-based volunteer opportunities there are where I live, in BC and across Canada. Some ideas I have are volunteering with organizations that protect fresh water and/or the environment through conservation efforts and removal of invasive species. I would also be interested in volunteering at a local community garden, which will be built soon, as part of the holistic support for Indigenous residents/’the family’ at a new housing project that will be opening soon. I am at the phase where I am still reaching out to organizations to see what opportunities there are.
I am hoping through this program to learn more about Métis history and culture and I would love to specifically learn more about the Métis language Michif, as well as Métis craftsmanship, such as sash weaving and beading, which are intimately linked with Métis people’s relationship to the land, way of life, and expression. I am looking forward to connecting with other Métis Youth in the program and seeing what kind of land-based volunteer work they do. I am especially looking forward to the opportunity to connect with the Knowledge Keepers and Elders and I am thankful to the organizers from Métis Nation BC. What a gift!
With this blog I am planning on posting about what I learn on this journey, the research I do on Métis culture and history and the link to land-based reconciliation, and the volunteer work I participate in. I will also post about my experience at the end of the program, where the Métis Youth are invited to go on a trip to Winnipeg to celebrate Louis Riel day in February 2021, amongst many other activities (Covid depending of course).
The picture above is of a Métis Youth sash, which I was given at the 2018 Métis Youth Forum in Strathcona Park by Elder Stella Johnson. It also has some tobacco I grew in my garden, which I use as an offering when harvesting food and medicines from the land. I took this picture to honour National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada last year.
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October 2021
As stated in the letter below, we are working at Snuneymuxw hulit lelum to make ready for bringing on new community members, but in the meantime if you require medical help then:
Following up with your current Family Doctor is advised (all Family Doctors’ offices are open to see patients now). If you do not have a regular Family Doctor then First Nations Virtual Doctor of the Day is available to help seven days per week from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. - please call 1-855-344-3800 to book an appointment (https://www.fnha.ca/what-we-do/ehealth/virtual-doctor-of-the-day).
If you require more immediate or in person assistance then the Medical Arts Urgent Primary Care Centre (UPCC) is available 7 days a week at the Port Place Mall (https://medicalartscentre.com/walk-in-clinic/).
If you require emotional or crisis support then the KUU-US Crisis Line can help 24 hours a day, please call 1-800-588-8717 (https://www.kuu-uscrisisline.com/24-hour-crisis-line).
The healthcare system is challenging to navigate, so phoning 811, Healthlink B.C., 24 hours a day can also be useful (https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/services-and-resources/about-8-1-1).
As we continue to build the best blue sky Health Centre in the Universe, we will be ready to help and serve the community’s medical needs shortly. So stay tuned!
Huy ch q’u
Dr.P and Teltitelwet (Connie Paul, RN)
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Building Official - Regional District of Nanaimo (Nanaimo, BC)
Building Official – Regional District of Nanaimo (Nanaimo, BC)
Notice of Employment Opportunity
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REGIONAL DISTRICT OF NANAIMONanaimo, BC
The Regional District of Nanaimo is situated within the traditional territory of several First Nations, including three that have reserves within the region: Snuneymuxw, Snaw‐Naw‐As and Qualicum. The RDN recognizes the rich cultural history of these First Nations and is committed to developing positive…
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Pamela Anderson Menikah untuk ke 4 Kali dengan Pengawal Pribadinya
Pamela Anderson Menikah untuk ke 4 Kali dengan Pengawal Pribadinya
Pamela Anderson Menikah untuk ke 4 Kali dengan Pengawal Pribadinya
7Meter – resmi melepas status janda dengan menikahi pengawal pribadinya, Dan Hayhurst. Pernikahan keempat aktris Baywatch itu digelar di Pulau Vancouver, Kanada, pada 24 Desember 2020.
Pernikahan Anderson dan Hayhurst dipimpin oleh pendeta setempat. Qiyupelenexw dari Snuneymuxw First Nation bertindak sebagai saksi dan menyanyikan Paddle Song untuk pasangan ini. Lagu itu menandakan berkat untuk memulai perjalanan baru.
Pamela Anderson dan suami barunya.
Berdasarkan foto-foto yang dirilisnya, Pamela Anderson tampak mengenakan gaun pernikahan bergaya vintage dengan tudung kepala menyentuh kepala. Sementara suaminya memakai celana panjang hitam dan kemeja putih.
“Kini, aku ada di tempat di mana seharusnya aku berada. Di tangan pria yang mencintaiku dengan tulus,” ujar Anderson seperti dikutip dari Daily Mail, pada Kamis (28/1/2021).
Aktris 53 tahun itu bertemu Dan Hayhurst saat memutuskan kembali ke Pulau Vancouver selama pandemi COVID-19. Pria itu menjadi pengawal pribadinya dan selalu bersama sang aktris selama 24 jam.
Pamela Anderson dan suami barunya.
“Aku jatuh cinta. Kami menikah di malam Natal dengan restu kedua keluarga dan orang-orang yang mengenal kami. Aku menikah di properti yang kubeli dari kakek nenekku 25 tahun lalu. Ini tempat di mana orangtuaku menikah,” tuturnya lagi.
Ini merupakan pernikahan ke bagi Pamela Anderson. Dia pertama kali menikah dengan musisi Tommy Lee, pada 1995. Dari pernikahan itu mereka dikaruniai anak laki-laki hingga akhirnya memutuskan bercerai pada 1998.
Pamela Anderson.
Kemudian, dia menikah kembali dengan Kid Rock pada 2006 dan bercerai di tahun yang sama. Setelahnya, dia jatuh ke pelukan produser Rick Solomon, pada 2007 dan kemudian bercerai pada 2013.
Sebelum akhirnya Dan Hayhurst, Anderson sempat dikabarkan menikahi pebisnis Jon Peters, dia California, pada 20 Januari 2020. Namun menurut Pamela Anderson, dia dan Peters tak mendaftarkan pernikahan itu secara resmi.*
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Snuneymuxw First Nation declares COVID-19 cluster, issues shelter-in-place order
A Vancouver Island First Nation has implemented a shelter-in-place order for its members after declaring a cluster of COVID-19.News, bc coronavirus, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Cluster, First Nations, Snuneymuxw First Nation, Vancouver IslandA Vancouver Island First Nation has implemented a shelter-in-place order for its members after declaring a cluster of COVID-19.
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LIT LIT LIT LIT X
Artspeak, 233 Carrall St
Sunday, Feb 18
Doors @ 7pm, Readings @ 7:30pm
LIT LIT LIT LIT is a bi-monthly literary event in Vancouver that simply invites four writers, poets, or artists to read their own work to interested parties. Select readings are published as chapbooks under the SOMEWHAT URGENT SERIES and all LIT LIT LIT LIT events are recorded and available as a podcast on our website and iTunes.
LIT LIT LIT LIT X presents readings by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Emma Sise, Ben Stephenson, and Ingrid Olauson whose collaborative chapbook "Pragmatics" (Publication Studio, 2018) with artist Lyndsay Pomerantz, will be launched at the event.
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JOSH GABERT-DOYON is a writer, art worker, and radio producer living on unceded Coast Salish territory. He is currently completing a fellowship at 221a, where he is working a project that tracks the Woodward's building as a site of political struggle. He works for the art book publisher Fillip and the podcast Cited.
INGRID OLAUSON is a writer living in Burnaby. She attended Emily Carr University from 2010 to 2015 and is working on her first novel. Her poetry chapbook “Pragmatics,” with images by Lyndsay Pomerantz, was published this month. "Pragmatics" was written for ‘Sleepover,’ a collaborative residency project organized by Lyndsay Pomerantz and Michael Lachmann in Berlin, Germany, 2017.
EMMA SISE currently lives, writes, and ambles around in Snuneymuxw First Nation territory, where she is curatorial intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. She will be reading various poems, and a Borgesian experiment. She is interested in mending cloth, grabbing a bite, and the affective qualities of being a creature among so many fantastic others.
BEN STEPHENSON is a Canadian author and artist. His debut novel A Matter of Life and Death Or Something (Douglas & McIntyre, 2012) was long listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award, and prompted CBC Books to name him one of “10 Canadian Writers to Watch.” It was translated into Spanish and Romanian. He is currently living in Vancouver and working on something else.
~ LITX4X is the final event of the LIT LIT LIT LIT series which will soon rearrange itself to present a series of reading experiments, workshops, interviews, events, and poetic expressions in addition to public readings!
LIT would like to thank all of the venues and staff who have hosted us, friends and community members who have supported us, and most especially all of our readers and collaborators who we have worked with us over the last 3 years. The appreciation runs deep and we look forward to sharing our next (l)iteration with you! xxoo LIT
~ Artspeak is a wheelchair accessible venue.
~ We acknowledge and are very thankful to hold our events on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Dream Islands
Sonnet L’Abbé, Derya Akay, Vanessa Brown, Maggie Groat, Yuki Kimura, Anne Low, Lari Robson
July 21 - September 17, 2017
Curated by Jesse Birch and Emma Metcalfe Hurst
Dream Islands is a group exhibition that takes the work of late Salt Spring Island-based potter Lari Robson (1942-2012) as a central point of inspiration. The exhibition features Robson’s pottery alongside new artworks by Derya Akay, Vanessa Brown, Maggie Groat, Yuki Kimura, and Anne Low, with writing by Sonnet L’Abbé that navigate islands of the imagination through intersections between art and craft practices.
As a creator of refined and useful pottery, Robson maintained a devoted and humble practice as an island potter. He sold vases, mugs, tea bowls, lidded jars, casseroles, jugs, serving bowls and other dishware every Saturday at the Salt Spring Island Farmers Market. He made personal and lasting relationships with his patrons and his community, and his pottery continues to be used and treasured in many households on Saltspring Island and beyond.
In December 2016, Nanaimo Art Gallery received a generous donation of ceramics from the estate of Victoria-based Curator and Art Historian Diane Carr (1941-2016) which included a unique stoneware jug made by Robson in the 1970s. Jugs are inherently social objects: they constantly empty themselves out through the act of giving. This spirit of reciprocity became a guiding inspiration for the exhibition.
For the occasion of Dream Islands each participating artist was gifted a pot of Robson’s to live with, and reflect on while creating new works for the exhibition. Through a variety of different media including weaving, metalwork, and blown glass the artists employ the materials and labours of craft, but as contemporary artworks, these creations avoid the burden of use. The artworks will be on display in dialogue with a selection of Robson’s pots borrowed from personal and private collections of his patrons, friends, and family, now also liberated from their daily use through new social and aesthetic encounters shared in the gallery.
On August 27, in dialogue with Dream Islands, we present a special event on Saysutshun (Newcastle Island), an island park on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nations located fifteen minutes away from the Nanaimo Art Gallery in the Nanaimo harbour. Titled Island Dreams this event inverts Dream Islands by offering an embodied and communal experience of the physical space on an island, while encountering performances, poetry readings, and temporary installations by Tent Shop, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabi Dao, Tiziana La Melia, Sonnet L’Abbé with an introduction to Saysutshun by Snuneymuxw artist and storyteller Celestine Aleck.
These projects are presented as a part of Nanaimo Art Gallery’s celebration of our 40th anniversary in 2017. All year, through exhibitions, special projects, education programs and events, we explore the question “What does it mean to live on an Island?”
Image: Stoneware jug with tenmoku glaze, Lari Robson, circa 1970s
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For every Canadian reading this, the above number will invoke thoughts we have been having for the past 5 days. For overseas readers, you too many have heard of our horrific discovery, as I know for certain it was covered by at leasst the BBC.
Here is where I struggle to find the words. I fear this is only the tip of the iceberg. I worry about what this and future discoveries will do to my friends, their families, and all indigenous peoples in terms of their recurring trauma. I feel ashamed, embarrassed, shocked beyond belief, and guilty. Many people will ask why I should feel guilty? After all, I immigrated here as a child, well after the “worst” of the residential school years were over. Here’s why I feel guilty, and why many people all over the world should take a good long look in their mirrors. While not all of these will apply to you, some will:
1. I was born in the U.K. Canada was a colony of Britain. This policy came with the approval of the U.K. and the Crown. You can act all shocked, but you have a role in this as well;
2. If you are not indigenous to the land you reside on, (I don’t care how many generations your family has been there), you might want to take a look at how history has treated those people who were there first? You have a role as well.
3. If you have every made a disparaging remark about indigenous people, because you have ‘had to’ witness their poverty, or social problems, take a good look at why those issues exist. Chances are...you and your ancestors played a role.
4. If you are an avid church goer and see yourself as a good Christian person, you may want to ask why the churches are still so silent, and defensive. Yes, you too have a role here.
I have the great fortune to have several friends who are indigenous. Some of them are actually from this area, and are directly affected by this horrific finding. Others are struggling to balance what they will do if more bodies are found...closer to their traditional places. I have been to this building. I know residential school survivors, and offspring of residential school survivors. I’ve heard their stories. I’ve read some excellent books, (”A Knock on the Door” The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - the foreword is by former National Chief Phil Fontaine, who I had the pleasure of meeting). All of this means this: I am still white, a xwunítum in Hulquiminum, (the local indigenous language of where I live) . While I have maybe a different lens into this than my other friends who don’t have interactions with First Nations people, I still cannot, or would ever, say that, “I get it”, or “I feel their pain”, or that I can speak to this from “their perspective.”
I see the petitions that are circulating about having a National Day of Remembrance. I haven’t signed them. Why? Because while I may think it’s a lovely idea, and it may help with my guilt at some level, my overriding belief is that First Nations people should be telling US how THEY best would like EVERYONE in Canada to mark this travesty, the ongoing very black time in our history, the disastrous government policy whose stated goal was to “... to get rid of the Indian problem. I do not think as a matter of fact, that the country ought to continuously protect a class of people who are able to stand alone. . . . Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question.” (Duncan Campbell Scott, 1920. Head of Department of Indian Affairs...and if you’re Scottish...as I am...look at that name and think you don’t have a role here). I think that after centuries of “us” telling “them” what to do and what’s best, perhaps it’s time for us to shut up and listen.
Today, the “Wandering Canadian” is a quiet, reflective, embarrassed one, asking my friends and their relatives to help me better understand and find a positive way forward.
The above trading bead was a gift from a Snuneymuxw Elder. While I felt undeserving, (and still do), of such a gift, protocols said I must accept it. The First Nations staff at the school had a bit of a laugh seeing my discomfort and how I tried to respectfully wiggle out of accepting it. It will eventually be returned to the family, as outlined in my Will, but for now, I wear it whenever I have the honour of being asked to represent or work with First Nations people, as a reminder of who I am and my role, yet despite that, being given the trust of a community.
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