Harry Manson Honoured

Snuneymuxw soccer star Harry Manson will be honoured at the BC Sports Hall of Fame Banquet of Champions in Vancouver on June 9.

Manson, who died in 1912, paved the way for many other Indigenous soccer players during his lifetime and … Read More

Snuneymuxw considers its lost reserve lands

Snuneymuxw First Nation is moving forward on reaching a financial settlement with Canada over the loss of its reserve in the City of Nanaimo.

Chief and council will be holding several community information meetings around the agreement in late April … Read More

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

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

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

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

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