Sonny AssuFeb 3
In solidarity with a free Palestine.

#digitalart #indigenousart #sonnyassu #contemporaryart #canadianart #indigenouscontemporaryart
#Ligwiłdaxw #Kwakwakawakw #indigenous #wewaikai #weiwaikum #adobeIllustrator
Charring AuhDec 21
#Nahwitti was a #Kwakwakawakw First Nation village and a major trading site during the maritime fur trade era of approximately 1790 to 1850. Today it is an Indian reserve under the administration of the Kwakwakaʼwakw
Charring AuhDec 21
The #Kwakwa̱ka̱wakw (IPA: [ˈkʷakʷəkʲəʔwakʷ]), also known as the #Kwakiutl[2][3] (/ˈkwɑːkjʊtəl/; "#Kwakʼwala-speaking peoples"),[4][5] are one of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their current population, according to a 2016 census, is 3,665. Most live in their
Charring AuhNov 29
#DougCranmer (1927–2006), also known as Pal'nakwala Wakas and Kesu', was a #kwakwakawakw wakw carver and artist as well as a 'Namgis chief. Cranmer was a significant figure in the Northwest Coast art movement, both in its traditional form and in a modern contemporary form that he created and developed.
Show threadMs. Que BanhNov 1, 2024

Captain Chickite, of #WeWaiKai First Nation, and wife, were kind enough to charter the flotilla trip for us, from #CampbellRiver through the Discovery Islands.

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #Indigenous #VanIsle #Kwakwa̱ka̱wakw #Kwakiutl #CapeMudge

Show threadMs. Que BanhNov 1, 2024

Leading the fish farms out of BC waters flotilla:
#Laichwiltach hereditary Chief Tsahaukuse (George Quocksister Jr.).
https://www.nationalobserver.com/podcast/salmon-people/occupation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laich-kwil-tach

Chiefs who came to support:
#Homalco Hereditary & Council Chief Darren Blaney (Married to MP Rachel Blaney).
https://www.homalco.com/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-landslide-science-tsunami-earthquake-1.6075933

Bill Wilson(Kwak'wala name, Puglaas) hereditary Chief of the #Musgamgw #Tsawataineuk & part of Laich-kwil-tach, which are part of the #Kwagiulth & #Kwakwakawakw First Peoples. Married to 2nd wife, Bev Sellars, a Chief of the #Xatsull First Nation. Father of Jody Wilson-Raybould, lawyer & former MP. Bill was the first Indigenous BC Chief to travel to Ottawa to meet Prime Minister Trudeau (Pierre) to negotiate & draft 1st & only amendment to Canada's constitution in 1982(Section 35).
He helped found BC First Nations Congress, which led to creation of BC Treaty Commission (signed by Wilson, Harcourt & Mulroney).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Wilson_(chief)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsawataineuk_First_Nation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jody-wilson-raybould-reconciling-history-1.7364336

#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #IndigenousSovereignty #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BCTreatyCommission #BrokenPromises #BrokenTreaties #IndigenousRights #DemandMPAs

The Occupation

Alex and Hereditary Chief George Quocksister Jr. used GoPro cameras and divers to record what was happening underneath the fish farms. When the footage was shown to First Nations communities, there was shock and sadness, then anger.

Canada's National Observer
Ted CadwalladerJul 24, 2023
#Hokulea update. They left #Alaska after visiting our #Tlingit relatives, visited #Haida rellies in Old Massett, #Tsimshian cousins in Prince Rupert then down the coast through #Haisla and #Heiltsuk territory. Next stops are in #Kwakwakawakw territory then down into the #SalishSea. Following a route used for centuries by #Indigenous peoples. I’ve done this route many times as a young fisherman but not for many years.
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

Totem pole tribute to residential school victims arrives in Vancouver
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/totem-pole-tribute-to-residential-school-victims-arrives-in-vancouver-1.6451707

On National Indigenous Peoples Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Indigenous_Peoples_Day) a pole carved as a tribute to children who died in residential schools received an escort into Burrard Inlet from HMCS Edmonton and a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft.

Kwakwakaʼwakw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakwhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw

#Canada #indigenous #TotemPoles #Kwakwakawakw #FirstNations #ResidentialSchools #HumanRightsViolarions #HumanRights

Totem pole tribute to residential school victims arrives in Vancouver

On National Indigenous Peoples Day, a pole carved as a tribute to children who died in residential schools received an escort into Burrard Inlet from HMCS Edmonton and a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft.

British Columbia
Show threadPhoenixSerenityJun 5, 2023

#RedHuckleberry grows from dead tree stump.

#Kwakwakawakw ppls boiled #huckleberries w/salmon spawn in cedar boxes & sealed tops of boxes with eulachon & skunk cabbage leaves to preserve berries for months.

#W̱MÍYEŦEN #Wsanec #Lekwungen #Nature #Sanctuary #Millstream #Watershed #GowllandRange #conservation #vanisle #PNW #VictoriaBC #yyj #greenbelt #VancouverIsland #CoastSalish #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #ProtectedProperty #ConserveNature #biodiversity #NatureImmersion

https://www.marylakeconnections.ca

Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary | A Green Legacy for Future Generations

PhoenixSerenityMar 15, 2023

Met Bill & wife in Campbell River 2.5 years ago, on small wild salmon flotilla to protest fish farms in Discovery Islands. He told me about this Ottawa trip:

'It was 40 years ago, #Kwagiulth (#Kwakwakawakw ) #HereditaryChief Bill Wilson (Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla), and father of Canada’s first #Indigenous #AttorneyGeneral , #JodyWilsonRaybould (Puglaas), helped #negotiate and #draft the first #amendment to #Canada ’s then-new #constitution .

https://globalnews.ca/news/9552104/bill-wilson-legacy-fight-indigenous-rights-40-years-negotiating-constitutional-change/amp

Bill Wilson on the fight for Indigenous rights 40 years after negotiating constitutional change

The constitutional reform, enshrining Indigenous land and treaty rights, was born out of the First Ministers Conference in March 1983.

Global News