Spring … frogs sing….bighouse closes

They Say you should hang all your troubles and anger on the big nail beside the door into the bighouse so that such things do not affect the important work around the fires.

A nation’s leader recently said, while shaking a … Read More

Reconcilation

For reconciliation to flourish in Canada, it must be rooted in truth and justice.

One truth is that residential school survivors, their families and communities still struggle to overcome the intergenerational legacies left in the wake of these schools.

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Coast Salish just say ‘NO’ to Salish Sea oil transport

The Coast Salish nation unanimously agreed last summer to work together to address the transport of crude oil shipments, by rail and sea, through their territories.

“We live in a pollution-based economy, and for hundreds of years there have been … Read More

Stern critic of LNG deal

One of the sternest critics of the Malahat/Steelhead LNG project is Adam Olsen, a member of Tsartlip First Nation and the interim-leader of the BC Green Party.

“I grew up fishing next Bamberton and on the docks in Brentwood and … Read More

Tsawwassen says ‘NO’ to LNG

‘A well informed choice’ says Chief

Members of the Tsawwassen Nation have voted down plans to build a liquefied natural gas export facility in their lands.

Leaders said in November that they would let the nation’s members decide whether or … Read More

Tsleil-Waututh ‘confident’ on stopping pipeline plan

A legal expert says a number of recent events could affect whether Tsleil-Waututh Nation will be successful in halting National Energy Board’s review of a proposed pipeline expansion project in its territory.

Kinder Morgan’s $5.4 billion plan would nearly triple … Read More

Coast Salish in Paris

While the massive COP21 UN climate change conference was happening in Paris, France, last month, Indigenous people from around the world were having their own gathering in a chateau north of the city.

Reuben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s anti-pipeline … Read More

Sliammon Lake could bring power and water

Even before the effective date of the Tla’amin Treaty in April, the nation has announced that it hopes to become a power in the Powell River region.

In early January, the Sliammon Development Corporation (SDC) said it was looking at … Read More

The animals are telling us…

Steven Point of Sto:lo Nation, was chief commissioner of the BC Treaty Commission, when he said these words at the 2007 Coast Salish Gathering in Cowichan:

“Something is happening. The animals are telling us… We’re at a critical time as … Read More

Farm School grows at Tsawwassen

Something else is growing at Tsawwassen First Nation amidst the retail malls, housing developments and industrial project.

The TFN Farm School, an innovative partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University, has received a $263,000 grant from the Real Estate Foundation of BC.

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