Tyler gifting Beau, at end of 2 day cultural healing event.
#Esquimalt #FirstNations #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Gratitude #Brotherhood
Beau & Tyler, by the fire & #salmon.
#Fish #Esquimalt #FirstNation #IndigenousFood #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Seafood
The butterflied wild salmon are now cooking by the fire ❤️🙏
#Fish #Esquimalt #FirstNation #IndigenousFood #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Seafood #salmon
Beau & Tyler are working on finishing the butterfly cuts on the salmon. We are cooking 5 fish on the fire today.
#Fish #Esquimalt #FirstNation #IndigenousFood #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Seafood #Preparation
Thawing out frozen wild #salmon to butterfly before cooking them over the fire.
The oceanspray branches that we stripped bark off from yesterday, are soaking under the 5 fish.
#Fish #Esquimalt #FirstNation #IndigenousFood #CulturalFood #TraditionalFood #NativeBC #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Seafood
Learn more about #ChiefMaquinna.
This is a collection of words, photos and video clips for Hyas Tyee #Nuuchahnulth - Chief Maquinna. A greatly respected & important Chief of the Nuuchahnulth #Haida People, of the Haida Gwaii Islands, in #BritishColumbia #Canada.
Chief Maquinna (also transliterated: Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the Chief of the Nuuchahnulth People of #NootkaSound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s, on the #PacificNorthwest Coast.
British explorer #CaptainCook went looking (like so many #Europeans before and after him)or the Northwest Passage. He ran headlong into a thriving trade and business culture on the west coast, overseen by young Nuu-chah-nulth, Chief Maquinna.
The two men's encounter would forever change trans-Pacific trade and teach the European empire a lesson in diplomacy, they've managed to forget, many times over.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf8fIcyhyc
#BCFirstNations #ColonialBC #ColonialCanada #NativeChiefs #IndigenousChief #NativeBC #FirstPeoples #Maquinna #VancouverIsland #Nootka #VanIsle #PNW #Cascadia #ColonialResistance #BChistory #geopolitics #BCIndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #PNWHistory #FirstNations #colonialism #BrokenTrust #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Landback #educational #HonourTheTreaties #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HistoryAndPolitics #JusticeForIndigenous
Tsahaukuse, George Quocksister Jr. is a #HereditaryChief of the #Laichkwiltach Nation and the son of Elizabeth and George Quocksister. He is a passionate advocate for the protection of #WildSalmon as a crucial part of his culture and the food security of his people, and is working to ban the practice of #SalmonFarming on the west coast. He lives in Campbell River, BC.
This is from our 2020 #DiscoveryIslands flotilla protest & restocking patrol with George & 2 other BC Indigenous Chiefs(Darren Blaney & Bill Wilson) from North Island regions.
The fight to get fish farms out of BC waters started in the late 80s & continues.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/video-appears-to-show-disfigured-farmed-salmon-1.4261637
#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #FishFarmsOut #DirectAction #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #SalmonPeople #KeystoneSpecies #ecology #WildlifeConservation #ProtectEcosystems #environmental
With #Namgis #FirstNation crew at 2022 #WildSalmon #flotilla #protest in #Tofino. This flotilla was led by Namgis Chief, Ernest Alfred - in the middle of photo.
Our boat captain is on far right, Willie Mitchell, Indigenous former #NHL player. I was invited to join Namgis leaders boat for this flotilla.
#VancouverIsland #BCIndigenousChiefs #NativeChiefs #IndigenousLeaders #BCFirstNations #NativeBC #IndigenousBC #NativeLeaders #FishFarmsOut #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #SaveWildSalmon #DemandMPAs #BCpoli #CDNpoli #OceanGuardians #monochrome
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
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
Ms. Que Banh