Ancestors’ gifts keep Angela going

By Cara McKenna

When Angela White was growing up, family members told her to embrace her Snuneymuxw identity.Even though things were hard at time, she remembers gathering food and medicines and learning other traditional ways.

But now, many Indigenous youth … Read More

Like a thunderbird

Before I follow the great Chiefs who have gone before us, oh Canada, I shall see these things come to pass. I shall see our young braves and our chiefs sitting in the houses of law and government, ruling and … Read More

Elsie is a bridge

One of the organizers of an event recognizing Elsie Paul of Tla’amin for her contributions to the community sent the following words:

Elsie is an 84-year-old elder and a tireless worker for Tla’amin and for Powell River. She just gives … Read More

Readers like their Sentinel

People in the eleven Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council (NmTC) communities like reading this magazine and have some good ideas on how to make it better.

Those were some of the findings in a survey of leaders in a wide-ranging ‘needs assessment’ … Read More

Get ready for the Big One

Stz’umin First Nation is preparing for earthquakes and other disasters. An emergency preparedness team has identified 16 zones throughout the community and, in early March, received training including rapid damage assessment.

Fire safety, first aid and evacuation training is also … Read More

Tla’amin says NO to herring harvest

Boats from the commercial herring fishery began appearing along the BC coast prompting Tla’amin Nation to serve notice on the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).

Tla’amin council told DFO in early March that the fishery would cause “irreversible damage” … Read More

Plan for the inlet

Tsleil-waututh  Nation – People of the Inlet – has unveiled a science-based action plan to restore the contaminated Burrard Inlet. The draft plan, released in February, has the nation’s leadership saying that identifying issues that must be resolved will result … Read More

Computers on the cheap!

Hundreds of laptop and desktop computers are available for $100 or less to coastal First Nations.

That’s the message from Darren Blaney of Homalco First Nation. Darren who has already bought refurbished computers from the BC Technology for Learning Society. … Read More

The Long Journey to Tla’amin Treaty

It has been a very long road to treaty for the Tla’amin people. Even before Sliammon Nation (the English name for Tla’amin) entered the British Columbia treaty process in 1994, there were leaders with the vision that someday there would … Read More

Clean energy, better houses under scrutiny by nations

Fossil fuel-freeenergy and low-cost, low-carbon-footprint homes were just two topics under study at a Stz’uminus nation gathering on March 7. The workshop marked the end of a Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council NmTC project funded by BC’s clean energy business fund.

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