Late December was special in many ways for Devin Pielle of Sliammon First Nation. She celebrated a birthday and enjoyed her first Christmas with her baby daughter. This is what she told her friends on Facebook: “Thank you everyone for your birthday wishes! I feel so loved. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m 22, because I get to celebrate with Amaya for the first time or because the final edit of the documentary is done! But I have cried many happy tears today, lol. Thank you again.”

The documentary she referred to was “We Are Still Here”, part of a Canada-wide project called Resonating Reconciliation. The radio program was made for Powell River’s community radio station CJMP. She was assisted by Shelby George, Courtney Harrop, Emma Bell and Zoë Ludski.

The program reflected the stories of six Tla’Amin survivors of the residential school experience and two others fighting for language revitalization. The Sliammon community turned out for a special preview of the radio documentary on Dec. 21 at the Salish Center gym.

Resonating Reconciliation is a project that engages community radio stations to help reconcile all Canadians with the history of residential schools and to provide a lasting record of survivors’ experiences. It also is designed to help build grassroots skills among community- based broadcasters in respectful reporting on the ongoing legacy of residential schools.

Music heard in the documentary was by the Cheech Lem Chi Chia Canoe Family. Listen to a podcast of the program at http:// podcast.cjmp.ca.