Chief Dan George exhibit in new North Vancouver museum?

Chief Dan George, the former leader of Tsleil-Waututh Nation and a famed Indigenous actor, could be on stage again.

A new North Vancouver Museum is applying for funds to design a touring exhibit featuring Chief Dan George as an event … Read More

Finding a new way forward

Acknowledging harms. Respect. Forgiveness. Opportunity.

Those were just some of the ways that business students from across British Columbia defined reconciliation in a video that was screened during a ‘Reconciliation as a Call to Action’ panel at the Port Theatre … Read More

Council of elders guiding NmTC

Elders will be sharing their wisdom and advice with Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council (NmTC) leaders in the coming year.

Five members of the new council of Coast Salish elders were elected for year-long terms and introduced to directors at the … Read More

Survivors’ Totem Pole raised in Vancouver

An eight-metre cedar Survivors’ totem pole was raised in Pigeon Park on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on Nov. 5. It was crafted Haida carver Skundaal Bernie Williams (Gul Kitt Jaad) who was the only female apprentice of the late Bill Reid. … Read More

Film stars shine at Tla’amin

Two members of Tla’amin Nation are starring in a feature adventure film that will be on screens in 2017.

Kayaking for Beginners stars Ta’Kaiya Blaney with a backup role for film veteran Evan Adams (Smoke Signals).

Although much of the … Read More

Powerful stories and characters shine in books by and about first peoples

By Cara McKenna

Indigenous books were featured and discussed when the 29th annual Vancouver Writers Festival was held in October as more than 17,000 people attended the event on Granville Island.

A panel of authors who have written books about … Read More

The voice on the phone is Evelyn

Callers to the Vancouver Island office of Naut’s mawt Tribal Council may be surprised, and even pleased, to hear a greeting in the Hul’qumi’num language, as spoken by Coast Salish peoples on the Mid-Island.

It is the voice of Evelyn … Read More

Is it just another fish tale?

By Cara McKenna

Momentum is building to act over what BC Indigenous leaders say has been decades of Canada ignoring fishing rights, even after the “sunny ways” promises of last year’s federal election. In several cases, those rights were even … Read More

Snuneymuxw author’s eight books were first written in her heart

By Mark Kiemele

The last time the Sentinel met Celestine Aleck – Sahiltiniye – we had no idea that we were talking to an artist and a budding author.

She was brushing red paint onto a building on Newcastle Island … Read More

Strong Nation’s dream realized

Terri Mack – Kay Kwee Kway Kwa – is a member of the Da’naxda’xw Awaetlala Nation from the Knight Inlet area of BC’s central coast.

She and husband Ken have been running a small business from the basement of their … Read More