Young Tla’amin (Sliammon) activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney – centre of photo with drum – recently offered a song for the Shawnigan and Sooke watersheds. The water ceremony took place on the shores of Shawnigan Lake.

Local residents and neighbours of Malahat First Nation are fighting to protect water supplies from potential risks of an uphill-contaminated soil dump uphill. Also attending were other Coast Salish people as well as another young singer, Kalilah Rampanen from Nuu-chah-nuth territory.