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Tiny House Warriors sentencing May 2, 2025. Kamloops Court House at 9am. Support Secwepemc Land Defenders Mayuk Manuel, Isha Jules, Trisha Charlie and Sami Nasr.

SEATTLE -- "The dead birds floating in the #AlbertATarSands #TailingPonds, the #ManCamps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased #OilTankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the #TransMountainPipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"'We are not just #activists, we are #revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years,' said #KanahusManuel, #Secwepemc and #Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

"Speaking at the State of Emergency for The Salish Sea in #SeattleWashington on Thursday, Kanahus said, 'We are the title holders to the land.'"

#LandBack #DefendTheSacred #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest

Of all the places the BCNDP government can dump #carcinogenic torn-up #asphalt, they are choosing to dump it on the Reserves of the #Neskonlith Band.

Open letter regarding this heinous plan:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_dy2NAaQEZHkBNxAAjWCVRG4PllX7ZvOduVI7UhzVp0/edit?usp=sharing

#secwepemc #shuswap #Indigenouspeoples

Stitched pano of White Pyramid Mountain reflected in Waterfowl Lake, Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada (#Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc)

#WhitePyramid #WaterfowlLake #IcefieldsParkway #Alberta #Canada

Stitched panorama of #Crowfoot #Glacier and Crowfoot #Mountain, near #BowLake, #Alberta, #Canada. #Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc.

An enormous mountainous landscape under a cloudy sky. On the right and left is Crowfoot Mountain, with long shallow talus slopes at the base. In the centre is the glacier, in the saddle between the two arms of the mountain. In the foreground are a few trees, probably firs. At the base of the talus slopes are more trees of the same size but they look minute at the distance - giving you a sense of the scale.

Glacier National Park, Trans-Canada Highway east of Revelstoke, #BC, #Canada. (#Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc). #GlacierNationalPark

An autumn landscape in the mountains. In the foreground a line of several train cars, all grey except the one in the middle, which is yellow; it echoes the colour of the aspen trees dotted through the otherwise green conifer forest in the midground. At the top, in the distance, mountain peaks drifted with snow.

Near #Revelstoke, BC, #Canada (#Sinixt, #Secwépemc, #Syilx, #Ktunaxa https://www.ktunaxa.org.)

The bottom half of the image is a mountainside with great old-growth forest on it, decked out in lichen and mosses; the top half is clouds coming down the mountain. In the middle the trees fade from side in the thickening mist.

'This is our Vatican': British Columbia Trans Mountain expanded oil and gas pipeline route change will 'desecrate' sacred site: Secwépemc knowledge keeper

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/this-is-our-vatican-trans-mountain-route-change-will-desecrate-sacred-site-secwepemc-knowledge-keeper-7658614

#Secwépemc #TransMountain #pipeline #expansion #sacred #violation #reconciliation #colonialism #PetroState #cdnpoli #bcpoli #laws

This is what the current situation is here with the fires. Air quality is off the charts, multiple communities in the interior are on evacuation orders and alerts.

#Squilax has been partially burned down (there's been mixed reports and gossip, but as of this morning the band office, and #Quaaout lodge still standing, but the gas station and some homes burnt down). There's been an extreme lag with news and updates about the #Shuswap area, as the focus has been on #Kelowna, and evacuation orders for reserves weren't posted on the #BCWildfire map until up to half a day later.

Many other #Secwepemc reserves are on evacuation orders, and while #ChaseBC is on alert, it's surrounded by orders and road closures. People are stealing and moving firefighting equipment, including the sprinklers protecting the few bridges in and out of communities.

I can't keep up with everything right now.

Screenshots from the "Purple Air" air quality monitoring application, showing multiple locations across the province of British Columbia that are currently affected by wildfires. Areas around Chase, Kamloops, Kelowna, and Lytton show Air Quality Index numbers above 300, which is off the charts. A legend on the bottom right corner shows that over 300 is hazardous to health.

A screenshot from the BC Wildfire Service application, showing the current fires in the Kamloops Fire Region that spans from Wells Grey Park to the north and the USA border to the south. Multiple red and orange polygons near Chase, Kamloops, Kelowna, Oliver, and Shalalth, BC indicate evacuation orders and alerts.

Screenshots from the BC Wildfire Service application showing red and orange polygons that indicate evacuation orders and alerts. The screenshot on the left shows Kelowna and Oliver, BC. The screenshot on the right shows Adams Lake, Celista, Chase, Lee Creek, Scotch Creek, Sorrento, and Squilax, BC.

Construction underway for Northern Secwépemc Cultural Centre - Williams Lake Tribune https://www.wltribune.com/news/construction-underway-for-northern-secwpemc-cultural-centre/
#cariboo #Secwépemc

Global News BC: B.C. First Nations sign Columbia River Treaty revenue-sharing agreements with province https://globalnews.ca/news/9756607/3-b-c-first-nations-sign-columbia-river-treaty-revenue-sharing-agreements/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #MinistryofIndigenousRelationsandReconciliation #revenuesharingagreement #ColumbiaRiverTreaty #SyilxOkanaganNation #southerninterior #Secwepemcnation #BCFirstNations #Reconciliation #KtunaxaNation #BCInterior #Secwepemc #Okanagan #Ktunaxa #Canada

Reminders of #Canada ’s #shameful treatment of #IndigenousPeoples were constant as Marie Clements shot parts of her sweeping #drama “Bones of Crows” at former residential school, where hundreds of suspected graves were discovered two years ago.
The #writer #director says fictional scenes depicting #abuse at a #ResidentialSchool were shot at the #KamloopsBC facility where the #Tkemlups te #Secwepemc #FirstNation said it had found 215 suspected #UnmarkedGraves in May 2021.

https://www.saanichnews.com/news/residential-school-drama-bones-of-crows-explores-ongoing-legacy-of-trauma

I briefly shared an out of date call to action. After a bit more reading I found this OER at TRU that let me know:

"On June 20, 2017, SSN and allies celebrated the designation of Pípsell as a Secwépemc Nation cultural heritage site. "

https://implementingtrc.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/part-iii-title-and-mining/

#Secwépemc #Pípsell #OER #OERs

CELTalks - Laura Grizzlypaws - How to Create Authentic and Transformational Land Acknowledgements - Feb.1, 2023

https://vimeo.com/795024392

#LauraGrizzlypaws #LandAcknowledgements #CELTalks #TRU #Secwépemc’ulucw #Secwépemc

Webstad said the society is also now having to police the use of the phrase #EveryChildMatters . In February 2022 it was adopted #WithoutConsent by organizers of the #FreedomConvoy - which in turn was #denounced by Webstad & the Northern #Secwépemc te #Qelmucw #Chiefs .
Now, at age 55, Webstad says she dreams of the day she will be free of her own story. She wants to complete her work and then live a life that doesn’t require her to be a public figure.

https://www.similkameenspotlight.com/news/im-still-not-comfortable-with-it-orange-shirt-day-founder-reflects-on-decade-of-reconciliation-work

#Indigenous

#Tkemlúps #Secwépemc #FirstNation will receive $12.5 million in #FederalFunding toward the construction of a new #HealingCentre for the community, nearly two years after suspected grave sites were discovered at a former #ResidentialSchool - leaders have announced.
A #JointStatement Thursday said the new healing house will provide #TraumaInformed programs to help the community spiritually, mentally, emotionally & physically.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6788360

#Indigenous #EveryChildMatters #BritishColumbia

#Skeetchestn #Secwepemc #fire keeper #JoeGilchrist is on a mission to make the regenerative burning practices his grandfather taught him commonplace. At stake is an important practice for culture, food security and the future of B.C.'s forests. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/01/05/news/bc-fire-man-bringing-back

Aujourd'hui, c'est la #JournéeNationaleDeLaJupeÀRubans, inspirée par Isabella Kulak, une fille ojibwée (Saulteaux) de la Première Nation de Cote.

Je suis fière de porter une #JupeÀRubans faite par ma soeur pour célébrer nos liens avec notre famille, la terre et la culture #secwépemc. La jupe que Dana porte a été crée par Cheyenne Lazore, une artiste kanienʼkehá꞉ka (#mohawk). #Autochtones

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/2023-01-04/canada/premiere-journee-nationale-de-la-jupe-a-rubans.php

Deux femmes à la peau claire et aux cheveux foncés debout à l'intérieur, portant de longues jupes faites de différents tissus avec des motifs bleus marbrés. Une jupe a quatre rubans dans les nuances de rouge, d'orange et de blue. L'autre a trois rubans dans les nuances de jaune et de bleu.

Today is #NationalRibbonSkirtDay, inspired by Isabella Kulak, an Ojibwe (Saulteaux) girl from Cote First Nation.

I'm proud to wear a #RibbonSkirt made by my sister to celebrate our connections to #Secwépemc family, land and culture. The one Dana is wearing is made by Cheyenne Lazore, a Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (#Mohawk) artist. #Indigenous

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/01/04/news/girl-sparked-national-ribbon-skirt-day

Two women with light skin and dark hair standing indoors wearing long skirts made from different fabrics with mottled blue patterns. One skirt has four ribbons in shades of red, orange, and blue. The other has three ribbons in shades of yellow and blue.

Very important Warrior Life podcast on the continuing struggle to stop Transmountain pipeline by Kanahus Manuel and the Tiny House Warriors. Please watch. It's important to know about the ongoing human rights violations by Canada which have been repeatedly called out by the United Nations. #kanahusmanuel #transmountainpipeline #humanrightsviolations #BCFirstNations #Secwepemc #TinyHouseWarriors #mancamps https://youtu.be/FPOG3axI_Vk

#Secwepemc

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