Don't judge! This great blue heron is just warming up in the morning sun after a cold night. 😁

#birds #wildlife #photography #PortHardy #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada #VancouverIslandWildlife

Wellington wharves
The Port Line company ship, Port Hardy tied up at an unidentified wharf (possibly Queens Wharf) in Wellington Harbour. The copyright of this image continues to be held by the estate of Ans Westra. Please forward all requests for copies, permission use and reproduction to Ans Westra's agent, {Suite} ...

#Wellington #ThePortLine #PortHardy #QueensWharf #WellingtonHarbour #AnsWestra #AnsWestras #undefined

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/49229473/source

Watch out North Island friends! Snow and freezing rain is affecting the north island and Tahsis/Gold River areas!

#BCStorm #BCSnow #GoldRiver #CampbellRiver #PortHardy

#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