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Ms. Que BanhPhoenixSerenity@beige.party
2025-11-21

#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:
himwitsa.com/products/kwakiutl

hakaimagazine.com/news/northwe

Chief Sonny's #Indigenous #linguistic# work:
as.amphilsoc.org/repositories/

quatsino.org/history

asparagusmagazine.com/articles

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

Chief Sonny, wearing a hat, gray jacket, black shirt and plaid pants, seated outdoors by a campfire, petting a white, fluffy dog. He has long gray hair and a long beard, and he holds a wooden walking stick. The campfire is burning brightly in front of him.
schoolingdianaschoolingdiana@mstdn.social
2023-09-23

Happy Saturday! Grab a cup of coffee and check in on the Cherokee Nation’s newest National Treasure designees. #cherokee #NationalTreasure #Culture #artists #LanguageKeepers #PrincipalChiefHoskin #DeputyChiefWarner youtube.com/live/HoVyFbAYoIk?s

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