Edwin G. Aug 21, 2025

A fish passageway built on Okanagan Lake by the Syilx Nation should allow salmon to return to the lake.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sockeye-salmon-okanagan-lake-1.7614045
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Un passage pour poissons construit sur le lac Okanagan par la nation Syilx permettra aux saumons de retourner au lac.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2186932/saumon-sockeye-okanagan-poisson?partageApp=mastodon&accesVia=lien

#Penticton #Syilx #OkanaganLake #LacOkanagan

For the first time in over a century, sockeye salmon are able to return to Okanagan Lake | CBC News

After more than a century without salmon in Okanagan waters, a new fish passageway means that salmon and numerous other fish species will be able to migrate upstream to spawn.

CBC
Local Headlines - CivicInfo BCApr 10, 2025
#Syilx - Syilx chiefs condemn group behind legal challenge of UBC Indigenous land acknowledgement https://www.westknews.com/local-news/syilx-chiefs-condemn-group-behind-legal-challenge-of-ubc-indigenous-land-acknowledgement-7936624
Syilx chiefs condemn group behind legal challenge of UBC Indigenous land acknowledgement

"Attempts to silence these acknowledgements are attempts to erase Syilx Okanagan presence and rights”

West K News
Keenan MarchandMar 5, 2025
Indigenous Futurism (2022)

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#art #digitalart #pixelfed #pixelfedart #indigenous #indigenousart #syilx #sqilxw #syilxart #okanagan #scifi #futurism #futuristic #surreal #abstract
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Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)
PhoenixSerenityJun 8, 2023

#UBC designed a #NewFont that allows characters from #Musqueam #Indigenous #language to be typed on computers & match formal institutional #font used on UBC documents/signs.
Most characters in Musqueam language's - #hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ - pronounced HUN-kuh-mee-num - aren't available on English language keyboard.

The new font is also capable of #typesetting the language of the #Syilx, a #FirstNation located in the same area as UBC's #Okanagan campus

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6868283

#NativeLanguages #BCEducation

Dedicated font for Indigenous languages a sign of reconciliation and respect, Musqueam project member says

A new font to typeset Salish Indigenous languages means so much more than just the words it will be used to write, one of the people behind its creation says.

CBC
BC Info BotJun 7, 2023
Global News BC: Font gives fresh look to B.C. Indigenous languages while working on reconciliation https://globalnews.ca/news/9751441/new-indigenous-languages-font-ubc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #UniversityOfBritishColumbia #newIndigenousfontUBC #IndigenousLanguages #BCFirstNations #Reconciliation #Musqueamband #Education #Syilx #UBC
Font gives fresh look to B.C. Indigenous languages while working on reconciliation

Vanessa Campbell said it has taken four years to get the font right and it's a sign of respect for the Indigenous people whose land the university is on.

Global News