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‘Every day, we honour our sisters’: Red Dress art pieces unveiled outside ‘Vancouver Island’ schools
Content Warning: This story contains content referencing missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people. Please honour your spirit and read with care. Every year, when May 5 comes and goes, Lily Schaefer is reminded of the importance of continuing the conversation about missing and murdered Indigenous, women, girls and two-spirit people (MMIWG2S). The…
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South Okanagan Similkameen Pride Society kicks off month-long celebrations
The crowd at the Dream Cafe was treated to a night of poetry, mixes of Fusion and Raqs Sharqi dancing, and drag acts full of outlandish song and dance.
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Annual Spirit of syilx Youth Unity Run begins with honouring of residential ‘school’ survivors
More than 100 syilx youth gathered at the site of the former residential “school” to kick off this year’s run
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‘These names were stolen:’ B.C. MLA pushes for including Indigenous names on government ID, birth registrations
Indigenous Names Statutes Amendment Act is headed to a second reading before becoming legislated
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Table Talks program will bring reconciliation discussions to the kitchen table
The sessions are designed to promote relationship-building and to breathe life into sqilx’w beliefs and teachings.
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Okanagan Indian Band to host grand reopening of Cultural Arbor
‘So many memories were made with the previous arbor and many great memories will be made here,’ said Chief Byron Louis
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Indigenous boutique opens on Secwépemc homelands
Red Hummingbird Boutique is an Indigenous Boutique that carries uniquely created and upcycled items and is open until September 2022.
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Erasure of Indigenous languages ‘a scar’ on Canada, says maskēkow-ininiw language warrior
“We all have a responsibility towards the return and continuation of Indigenous languages in this country,” says Dr. Onowa McIvor
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Free sexual health Medicine Bundles offered to Two-Spirit, queer, trans Indigenous people
The creators hope to bring sacredness back into sex and increase access to healthcare.
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Dressed in red, Stz’uminus community members honour MMIWG2S
“We’re on a healing journey,” says Chief Roxanne Harris