#FlashbackFriday
Autumn 2021.
Warming up & chatting with #HereditaryChief Sonny Wallas (David Hanuse), Chief Ye-kue-klas of [Gwat’sinuxw (Quatsino)] nation.
He was sharing with me about feeling bullied/outnumbered by band council folks who are dishonouring their ancestors/betraying Creator & his work with culture & language preservation.

Wallas’s great-grandfather was James Wallas—coauthor of #Kwakiutl Legends. He was the former hereditary Chief of the Quatsino #FirstNation of the Northern #VancouverIsland #Kwakiutl.

Learn more:
https://himwitsa.com/products/kwakiutl-legends

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/northwestern-vancouver-island-likely-escaped-the-ice-age/

Chief Sonny's #Indigenous #linguistic# work:
https://as.amphilsoc.org/repositories/2/resources/3432

https://www.quatsino.org/history

https://www.asparagusmagazine.com/articles/indigenous-communities-on-vancouver-island-are-healing-forests-for-the-future

#IndigenousElders #KnowledgeKeepers #LanguageKeepers #CutureKeepers #NativeWisdom #Decolonization #VancouverIsland #PortHardy #TraditionalChief #NativeChief #BCFirstNations #UNDRIP #LandBack #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #NativeLanguages #Frontlines #Blockade