Snaw-naw-as health services increase

A long-held dream of David Bob for a full suite of health services for the Snawnaw- as First Nation community is becoming a reality.

Dr. Randal Mason is visiting the nation’s four-year-old health centre two days a week. A dental hygienist … Read More

A few days at Klahoose

Peacefulness settles in on arrival at the Klahoose First Nation offices overlooking Squirrel Cove on Cortes Island.

It may have something to do with the place, looking east over West Redonda Island to Desolation Sound and the mountains on the Mainland, … Read More

LNG no gas for some

The proposal for a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Saanich Inlet continues to make the news and is proving to be ‘a gas’ for anyone interested in local politics, historical treaties or fossil fuel energy markets.

In early … Read More

A song on the water

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 … Read More

Welcome to the world

About 20 babies and other young children were ‘blanketed’ in a unique welcoming ceremony at Snaw-naw-as First Nation on March 19.

One of the children (main photo) was Cadence Sam, who is in the main photo with her parents Amanda Bob … Read More

Homalco radio station tunes in

An Aboriginal radio station, a decade in the making, could soon become a reality. And a Coast Salish name for the station is already being discussed, said Darren Blaney who is a councillor for the Homalco First Nation. “Some of the … Read More

The Drum: Sounds of Connections

By Lawrence Mitchell, ‘Ćum’qwa:tun’ Snaw-naw-as First Nation

Snaw-naw-as hasn’t really had its own song and dance group. If it did, it has been a long time since it has performed. In fact, a lot of the culture was withheld from … Read More

Lawsuit targets E&N

by Cara McKenna

Snaw-naw-as First Nation is on a mission to get its land back after a railway was built cutting through its reserve north of Nanaimo decades ago.

The nation is suing the owners of the E&N (Esquimalt and Nanaimo) … Read More

It’s canoe season

Even before the first day of spring, paddlers have been on the waters of the Salish Sea, alone or with their crew, preparing for another season of racing.

Meanwhile, in workshops around the coast, master carvers like Elmer Sampson are building … Read More

Indigenous centre plan in Nanaimo

A cultural centre is being proposed on Vancouver Island that would give urban Indigenous people a place to gather together for everything from coffee to ceremonies.

The plan has diverse support including elders from the Snuneymuxw, Metis and Kwakwaka’wakw nations, Indigenous … Read More