A West Coast treat. Prawns!🍤
Courtesy of the neighbours who have relatives in Ahousaht and appeared at my parents door with a bowl full of squirmy fresh prawns from Clayoquot Sound. ❤️

Yum!
#ahousaht

Stanley Sam’s chaputs goes home to Ahousaht

https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-09-02/stanley-sams-chaputs-goes-home-ahousaht

#Ahousaht #carving

#WaterfallWednesday
One of several waterfalls seen while exploring #backroads on #Dididaht & #Ahousaht territories.

#BackroadAdventures #VancouverIsland #nature #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #watershed #Cascadia #waterfalls #PNW #WaterIsLife #adventures

Some of my local Indigenous musician friends are performing at this cultural, touring event 💗

#MovableFeast #Indigenous #music and #culture #tour kicks off on Aug. 25 at the #Namgis Big House Field in #Yalis - #AlertBay - then on Wednesday, Aug. 28 the tour will barge all their equipment to #FloresIsland for performances in #Ahousaht. Stop three and the last leg of the tour is on Aug. 31 in #Toquaht #FirstNation village of #Macoah.

The line-up of #IndigenousMusicians includes Kiva MH, The Melawmen Collective, Leonard Sumner, Mama Mihirangi, Garret T. Willie, Saltwater Hank, Sechile Sedare, Willie Thrasher and Linda Saddleback, Hassatuk (Kalilah Rampanen), Geo AKA The Voice, Sabina Dennis and local guests.

Founded by #2RiversRemixSociety in partnership with virtualfeast.ca, these three stops on the Movable Feast #VancouverIsland tour are all #free, #FamilyFriendly and open to everyone. The program starts at 1 p.m. and wraps around 11 p.m.

“Everywhere we go, we showcase the stories of the people and the land there and how it came to be that way,” said singer, songwriter and Movable Feast founder Meeka Morgan.

For more information or to watch the shows on the livestream, visit:
https://virtualfeast.ca/

#NativeMusic #IndigenousMusic #IndigenousTalent #NativeTalent #BCFirstNations #VanIsle #CoastalBC #Tofino #PortMcNeill #BCindigenous #PacificNorthwest #CoastSalish #Nuuchahnulth #NativeCulture #BCNativeMusic

I have a recurring annual calendar appointment for March 16. Today is the 102nd anniversary of Comox-Alberni MP A.W. Neill's first speech in his 21 year career in the House of Commons (1921-45) where he called for a "white British Columbia”.

Neill was a white supremacist, anti-Asian racist, and one of the loudest voices for Japanese Internment. He was also an Indian Agent dealing with First Nations and Residential Schools on Vancouver Island's West Coast.

In 2021 his name was removed from a local school but he remains honoured with a street name.

I will continue reminding people of this until that honour is removed.

(A full report about him starts on page 82 of the City of Port Alberni Agenda from January 23, 2017)
https://www.portalberni.ca/sites/default/files/council_mtg/Jan23_Updated_opt_tf.pdf
#PortAlberni #ResidentialSchools #Canada #Tofino #Ucluelet #Ahousaht #Tseshaht #Nuuchanulth #JapaneseInternment