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Traditional and modern artistry merged and exploded on to the stage as a line-up of talented Aboriginal artists gathered to kick off the 10th Annual Talking Stick Festival during the opening gala on Feb. 1.
Nearly 200 people packed Vancouver’s Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre to launch the two-week city-wide festival honouring First Nations and Métis art and artists.…
The hereditary chiefs of the Nuu-chah-nulth territories stood together on Jan. 19 and spoke with one voice to send a message to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DF0).
It said the Nuu-chah-nulth ha’wiih (hereditary leadership) will take care of their resources within their ha’houlthees (chiefly lands), and they will ensure that their people get the fish they need.
“There is…
The rate of fatal drug overdose among First Nations people, especially women, in British Columbia is two to three times higher than that of the province’s non-Aboriginal population, according to a recent report released by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver.
The report, released in January and published in the journal Addiction, found that while Aboriginal…
Province accused of dragging its heels
The Adams Lake Indian Band says it’s not against the development of Sun Peaks Resort, but it insists on being consulted on the incorporation of the area as a municipality. It has been six weeks since the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that the province had failed to fulfill its duty to consult and accommodate the Adams Lake Indian Band (a member of…
Tenacity and hard work has paid off for three Aboriginal filmmakers from Vancouver after their films won the honors in a digital short film competition hosted in collaboration with the Aboriginal People’s Television Network [APTN] and Capilano University’s Indigenous Independent Filmmaking Program [IIDF].
Twelve talented film students and past graduates of IIDF competed. Winners…
The Nuu-chah-nulth people have been anxiously awaiting the decision in the Canadian government’s appeal of their groundbreaking fisheries litigation win.
The justices of BC’s Court of Appeal didn’t disappoint when they sided with the decision of Justice Nicole Garson of the BC Supreme Court who ruled that Nuu-chah-nulth have an Aboriginal right to a commercial fishery.
The court…
Province accused of dragging its heels
The Adams Lake Indian Band says it’s not against the development of Sun Peaks Resort, but it insists on being consulted on the incorporation of the area as a municipality. It has been six weeks since the B.C. Supreme Court ruled that the province had failed to fulfill its duty to consult and accommodate the Adams Lake Indian Band (a member of the…
The rate of fatal drug overdose among First Nations people, especially women, in British Columbia is two to three times higher than that of the province’s non-Aboriginal population, according to a recent report released by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver.
The report, released in January and published in the journal Addiction, found that while Aboriginal people…
Gladys Radek is a Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’en First Nations woman from Morcetown. She has been nominated in the Social Change category in the CBC News Champions of Change contest which celebrates volunteerism, and she’s made it into the top 10 as a finalist. Voting ends Jan. 6, 2011.
Radek is on a quest to seek justice for the countless number of Indigenous women who have either gone missing…
The Tourism Industry Association of Canada had a new honor to bestow at the National Awards for Tourism Excellence gala held Nov. 2. It was the National Cultural Tourism Award and it went to the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler, B.C.
The awards—14 in all—recognize the people, places, organizations and events that offer a superior tourism experience to travelers in Canada.…
Chief Bob Chamberlin of Kwicksutaineuk-Ah-Kwaw-Ah-Mish First Nation (Gilford Island) said people cannot be lulled to sleep by this year’s historic returns of sockeye salmon to the Fraser River.
In fact, the 35 million sockeye that found their way back to the river this August after their four-year ocean journey is perhaps a real indication that the department of Fisheries and Oceans…
Renowned First Nations author Lee Maracle’s new book “First Wives Club: Coast Salish Style” has just been released by Theytus Books.
Maracle is a member of the Sto:lo Nation of British Columbia and has had a career that has spanned a period of more than 30 years.
She has produced novels, short fiction, and essays. Some of her acclaimed works include Ravensong, Sundogs, Bent Box,…
A promising bull rider from the Okanagan First Nations died at a rodeo in Valemount in early July.
Makwala Derickson-Hall was killed on July 9 when he was stomped on by a bull after being bucked off at the Valemount Rodeo. He was 18.
Derickson-Hall’s cousin Chad Eneas, who was also competing in the same rodeo, was the lone family member who witnessed the incident.
Eneas,…
Break out the barbecue Premier Gordon Campbell. Company’s coming. Expect them to arrive by water, and probably pretty cranky after the long trip.
They are coming to deliver a message, one that’s been three decades in the making: ‘Put a halt for once and for all to your plans to construct yet another dam in the Peace Country. Northern BC has suffered enough.’
The fight over the…
The new generation of Aboriginal youth shows bold initiative by unburdening themselves from centuries-long grievous statistics.
It has been a painfully well-known fact that the rate of youth suicide in Aboriginal communities exceeds that of the non-Aboriginal population.
According to Statistics Canada, suicide is the major killer of young Aboriginal people after accidents. As far…