December 1, 2018 Carnegie Newsletter

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Birth of Chemukh The Yellowhead (Highway 16) runs west across British Columbia from Jasper at the Alberta border through Prince George to Prince Rupert on the Pacific coast, roughly cutting the province into northern and southern halves. Around the Bulkley mountain range between Smithers and Terrace, it makes about a 200kilometre northward loop, on which the Stewart-Cassiar (Highway 37) meets the Yellowhead at Kitwanga junction.

If you drive north from there along the Stewart-Cassiar for about six hours, you will pass through a scenic mountainous landscape into the heart of Tahltan territory, where the three main communities are Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake and lskut. Some 650 people live in Iskut, which is where our story begins.

Early one morning in December 1971, 18-year-old Annie Sue was making her family'S home ready for the return of her parents and the arrival of her first baby. Sarah and Thomas would be back from working their trap line within the next few days and their grandchild was expected in two weeks. When Annie Sue's housework was done and she went outside to chop wood, she could hear the sound of her uncle Gerry's fiddle coming from his house next door. It reminded her of wheri she had met Francois at the Iskut music festival in very early spring. After a whirlwind romance, he had to go back to Kahnawake, Quebec before Annie Sue knew she was pregnant. She still hadn't told him that he was to be a father.

As Annie Sue got ready to swing the axe, she felt a contraction, which she ignored at first. But when her water broke, she suddenly felt like a frightened little girl. She went into the house and grabbed her teddy bear. She called out to Gerry, who came right over. The air was wintry cold and the sun shone through the blue sky as he helped her waddle to where Aunty Nora Lee was already preparing one of their rooms for the momentous event.

Annie Sue had not been expecting the tremendous pain of giving birth. Her uncle cheered her on from beside her while her aunt assisted the delivery. Annie Sue felt quite feverish but that didn't stop her from pushing for all she was worth. After a heroic effort on her part, out came a beautiful baby girl, with dark eyes and hair. Nora Lee was delighted!

"Hola, you got big ears, little girl! Cute little monkey, here's your mom." But as she gently passed the newborn to her niece, she became alarmed. • "Annie Sue are you okay?"

Annie Sue lovingly held her baby together with her teddy bear.

"Aw, my etz yez, my skak yez. My Chemukh". She kissed her daughter's forehead and paused a moment to gaze at the miracle which had been delivered through her. She kissed her again and said, "I'll always be with you." She closed her eyes and passed into the world of spirit.

When Sarah and Thomas got back to Iskut, they were overwhelmed with grief for the loss of their only daughter, but in time they came to terms with what had happened. Then they were able to fully open their hearts to Chemukh, and they raised her with all the love they had in them, knowing that nothing so precious could ever be takln for granted. But their grand-daughter's life was not fated to be cut short. Instead, her happy childhood among her many loving relatives provided a solid foundation for her own remarkable journey.

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A Celebration of Life for Muriel Williams The DTE5 community

is invited to attend this event,

to be held in the Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main 5t, on

Saturday, January 19, 2019, starting at 2pm.

As Bad As We Got

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I keep catching myself Reminiscing The good times But then I catch myself Remembering Those times were Far and few between All the violence and Heart ache The way my voice Would softly break From the sadness Inside me The madness You caused me So Every time I catch myself Reminiscing The good times I catch myself And Remind myself That those times were Far and few between The times when you were mean And all that you may seem Was nothing more than A Broken record Playing on repeat Dee Michelle

I can't sit here and say That I regret us what we had what we were what we shared I can't sit here and say That I regret meeting ~ou And falling in love, Our souls dancing in the night I can't sit here and say That I regret the hard times The late night fights every time you kicked me out the bruises you left all over me Because as bad as we got damn were we good And as good as we were damn we got bad you hit me beat me left me covered in bruises and teeth marks And blamed me said I made you do that How can a young girl have so much power over a grown man I will never understand - Dee Michelle

What's happening at Oppenheimer Park?

This winter, Oppenheimer

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will be open 7 days a week, 9:15am to 5pm!

Drop by for a cup of tea or coffee at 10:30, and then stick around for our featured daily programs.

Winter Craft Market The holidays are quickly approaching! We will be launching the start of the holiday season at Oppenheimer Park with our first ever Winter Craft Market on Saturday December 1st, from lOam to 4pm.

Support the local crafters and artists of Oppenheimer Park in a fun, inclusive community setting! Admission is free and includes a hot lunch served at 1pm. There will also be free craft-making workshops led by Park Staff.

New Programs: Community Cooks, Saturdays 2pm to 4pm Come share your cooking skills and learn some new ones. We will be preparing comfort food and also exploring cuisines from around the world.

Did you know?

Did you know that on the last Thursday of the month there is a free Vet Clinic at Oppenheimer Park?

[FYI: The one in December will be on a different date as it is their annual Xmas event. We can include that in the next newsletter!]

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Velma Demerson has been in the pages of the Carnegie Newsletter a few times over the past couple of decades.

It has been a long struggle for her, starting with her being declared mentally distressed/incompetent for falling in love with a Chinese (i.e. non-white) man and being pregnant. In 2002 she received the following official apology from the Hon. David S Young, Attorney General for Ontario: Dear Ms Demerson.

I am writing to you on behalf of the Government to apologize to you for your incarceration under the Female Refuges Act in the 1930's. This Act had unfortunate and unjustified consequences for you and other women who were unjustifiably incarcerated under its provisions.

In addition, the government wishes to apologize for the adverse effects your incarceration undoubtedly had on your son, who was born to you while you were in custody, and to his father. Harry Vip. Sincerely, David Young, Attorney General Minister Responsible for Native Affairs

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Velma, now 98, came in with the following on finally getting an apology from the Federal Government: "On October 10, at the Hastings Branch of the Vancouver Public Library, a meeting was set up by Don Chapman of Lost Canadians. He was able to obtain citizenship for persons who had been denied citizenship through female sexual discrimination or other means. I lost my citizenship through marriage to a Chinese man prior to 1947.

At the meeting, I was given an apology for losing my citizenship by Hedy Fry, MP for Vancouver Centre, Senator Martin, and Jenny Kwan, Member of Parliament, House of Commons.

Hedy Fry also apologized on behalf of the Federal Government for my "being in prison." This referred to my illegal incarceration in the Mercer Reformatory for Females, in Toronto, in 1939. The Province of Ontario had enacted "The Female Refuges Act" which did not come under the Criminal Code of Canada. I was arrested for "living with Mr. Yip" and sentenced to one year. I was 18 years old I had previously received an apology from the Ontario Government but there was no acknowledgment of my medical treatment. Don Chapman stated, "Velma was subjected to a medical experiment while pregnant for a mixed-race child." As a result, my son suffered for a lifetime with poor health. He died at age twentysix.

This violation of the Criminal Code was in effect for 39 years.

I can at last say, "Thank you, Mr. Trudeau.""

Documentaries have been made about the blatant racism and mindset of a society which permitted the labelling, incarceration and the performing of medical experiments on white women who'd have sexual relations with nonwhites. Velma wrote a book Incorrigible about the widespread consequences, as well as one called Nazis in Canada 1919-1939. Velma has yet to receive a written apology from Hedy Fry

Dear Mayor and Councilors, I am writing as Project Coordinator of the Downtown regarding 58 West Hastings Street.

Eastside Women's

Center (DEWC) in support of Motion

This motion calls for Vancouver City Council to recommit to the vision of 100% welfare/pension housing as promised by former Mayor Gregor Robertson.

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DEWC is located in the heart of the DTES and is one of the only women's drop-in centers in the neighourhood.

DEWC provides meals, basic necessities, and advocacy to 500 women and children every day in the DTES. In a DTES women's safety audit, DEWC is named by 54 percent of women in the DTES as the place they feel safest. 70 percent of our members are Indigenous, and have been at the forefront of struggles to end violence against women, homelessness, poverty, and child apprehension.

Since 2008, members of DE WC have been mobilizing affordable social housing.

for the empty lot at 58 West Hastings to become a site of

In 2008, women and elders organized against Concord Pacific's development plan for the site. In 2010, during the Olympic Games, women and elders from DEWC's Power of Women group led an occupation and tent city at 58 West Hastings under the call for ""No More Empty Talk, No More Empty Lots: Homes Now!" Indigenous elders and women from DEWC, Beatrice Starr, Stella August, and Elaine Durocher lit the sacred fire with sweetgrass and sage that burned for the duration of the Indigenous and women-led tent city. The first night brought out 80 DTES residents and homeless people, and the tent city gained support from 100 groups across the city. Today, as part of Our Homes Can't Wait Coalition, our members continue to advocate for this site to be 100 percent social housing.

Ten years is too long to wait. As you are well aware, we are in the midst of an ongoing crisis in the DTES especially for women - the housing crisis, the opioid crisis, the crisis of violence against Indigenous women. Annette Morris tells me "No one deserves the violence and pain we go through. But nothing changes because our lives as Native women are not valued and because people think violence against us is 'normal' and 'how it is'." I ask this Council to be a government that takes Annette's words to heart, and to take on the challenge and responsibility to act in ways that values and centers Indigenous women's voices, leadership, and inherent and constitutionally protected rights to safety and self-determination.

Affordable housing is a necessary, foundational step to mitigate these violences, and Vancouver's definitions of affordable housing must be changed to mean rates that are affordable to people on social assistance, and rents that are income/geared not market-geared. It is trite to repeat that homelessness is a crisis in this city. However the gendered and colonial dynamics of homelessness is often missing in how our city understands and imagines solutions to homelessness.

Indigenous women's poverty in the DTES is one of the main factors magnifying vulnerability to abusive relationships, sexual assault, child apprehension, exploitative work conditions, unsafe housing, food insecurity, poor health, and social isolation. The poverty rate for Indigenous women is 36 percent, which is more than double the percentage of non-Indigenous women. Indigenous women are experiencing eight times more overdoses and five times more fatal overdoses than non-Indigenous women. In a DTES women's safety audit, 87 percent of women reported feeling unsafe in the DTES, with 48 percent of women experiencing violence within the last two years, as well as one quarter of women reported feeling unsafe in their place of residence.

For women, lack of safe and affordable housing compounds manufactured vulnerability. Indigenous women represent 45 percent of homeless women in the Metro Vancouver region, and all of DE WC's Indigenous members have been homeless at some point in their lives. Indigenous women often have to make the impossible

decision between staying in an abusive relationship (knowing that Indigenous women's rate of violent victimization is more than triple that of non-Indigenous men), or becoming homeless and having their children apprehended. Today there are three times more Indigenous children forcibly removed from their parents and placed into foster care than at the height of the residential school era.

Given the over-representation ofIndigenous women living in extreme poverty and subjected to colonial gendered violence in this neighbourhood, it should be your absolute priority to provide safe and affordable housing to women in this community. This is especially true in light of all levels of government - federal, provincial, and municipal- committing to Reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and recommendations from the Provincial Missing Women Commission ofInquiry.

I urge you to find the money to ensure that 58 West Hastings is funded at 100 percent social housing. This means self-contained units available at welfare rates and that is large enough and suitable for women and their children. Social mix buildings, shelters with mats on a floor, and modular housing simply do not cut the basic requirements of dignified, safe and appropriate housing for Indigenous women and their families.

As elder Louisa Starr says, "1 don't see why there is homelessness. The government should see and try sleeping without a blanket in the cold on the concrete. We are on Indigenous land, why are Indigenous women homeless? We should not have to ask for housing, the government owes us housing for taking our lands and stealing our children." Women in this community need this housing desperately and need it to be affordable to match social assistance rates. For your reference, I am also attaching earlier letters from the Downtown Eastside Women's Center and Union of BC Indian Chiefs calling for 100 percent social housing at 58 West Hastings.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

Harsha Walia [Jean Swanson's motion on 58 W Hastings went to City Council. And was sent to staff to come back in a month with reports on funding options specified in the motion. The community has immediately responded with setting the following meeting to flesh out our vision for what can and needs to happen at this site:

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Carnegie has a fun and rewarding Volunteer Program with a wide variety of opportunities!

Food Prep, Serving, Dishwashing, Baking, Runner, and Sandwich Maker.

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bedroom house in Cornwall over Christmas. No-one gets murdered by Vikings. I think.

Winter is bearing down on us. At least calendrically. Weather-wise it seems to be settling in to the usual soggy extended late-fall that passes for winter here. Anyway, winter is coming, and yes, I know technically it's not until the Solstice - which is much later in the month - and I should have saved this article for the next issue, but I didn't. Besides, the seasons don't follow our puny human calendars.

So if, with the changing of the seasons, you're feeling a yen to immerse yourself in the coldest and darkest time of the year - and why wouldn't youhere are a few winter themed titles from our collection.

Obviously, there's going to be a Scandinavian Mystery novel in here. Hakan Nesser's The Darkest Day is about a family who gather at the Winter Solstice to celebrate two family members' birthdays. Dark secrets lurk behind the festivities though, and by the end of the weekend two family members are missing. A Swedish mystery set at the solstice? It really doesn't get any more seasonally appropriate.

We all know that by law, Hockey is the winter activity of choice here in Canada. Dennis Hull, younger brother of some guy named Bobby and uncle of some other guy named Brett, clearly has a sense of humour. He titled his autobiography The Third Best Hull.

Again Obviously, I have to include a graphic novel called Blood in the Snow. It's part of the Northlanders series by Brian Wood. It's a Viking epic, and be warned, it's pretty gory - sort of the graphic novel equivalent of a Swedish Black Metal song, maybe.

Hey, did you know that Wayne from Wayne's World wrote a book about Canada? Apart from the strangely fawning final chapter/love letter to Justin Trudeau, it's a fun overview of his personal experience of our country, with lots of great classic Canadiana images. And since our country is the official country of winter, it counts. Oh yeah - it's called Canada by Mike Myers Finally, (& for the 3rd time) obviously, I have to include a novel called Winter, if it's just sitting right there on our shelves. Ali Smith's novel is about what happens when four people, described as 'strangers and family,' find themselves in a fifteen

Also, please join us on December 13th for a reading by BC Author Shilo Jones. 4:00, in the Classroom.

Happy reading, everyone, Randy

Flying High My life's runway is finally clear of the garbage for I've wrote out all of the crap that set me back: daily - yearly: the fear, the pain - that caused the anger and anxiety.

Now I'm free for take-off with a clear mind and i know it'll be a more positive future that I'll set out to find. lnza

AUTUMN I love crimson neon scarlet neon leaves on the trees on living breathing trees, all over lower mainland these rioti~g colours light up my life i carry these kaleidoscopic visuals inside me, thru grey rainy times of winter as fuel that heartens amid sunny days ways so i become a neon-leaved creature sans fear all the rest ofthe rolling festive year!!! jolm alan douglas

Jenny Kwan MP Vancouver East NDP Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Critic 2572 E Hastings St Vancouver, BC V5K IZ3 T: 604-775-5800 F: 604-775-5811 Jenny.Kwan@parl.gc.ca

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tion is tricky as Plaster of Paris was used in the original mixture, which overly hardens the cement and makes resTwo tables away, I saw a man cleaning his ears toration more difficult, and also bites into the paint and with a car key. Inspecting his ritual cleansing glass if the excess is not fully removed, as is the case here with a discerning eye, he picked up a napkin, (image 6). The window has been dismantled to the point folded and smeared its inside surfaces, where the broken area could be removed and the fragthen dropped it on his empty plate. ments put aside for reference at the painting stage.

The window should be repainted and restructured by I saw a man holding a hammer, walking towards me February, and installed thereafter. For now, check out the on the street. As he came closer, he would stop, photos below! cock his head, then tap each parking meter, as if to tune them to his frequency.

I turned away, and crossed the street.

I saw a woman screaming, writhing on the floor -her two fists fiercely clutching the long hair of another thrashing woman.

"O-o-o-oh mother, o-o-o-oh father, I miss you."

You raged; cursed as our team undid your knot.

I saw a woman, a friend in ashesso much more than the taint of her diagnosis.

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A silent man who spoke with his eyes, and loved with his touch; slipping slowly, daily, from now till then.

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2nd Place POETRY

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The Burns Stained Glass Window Restoration Progress As you may know, one of the small stained glass windows on the main floor of the building was damaged this past summer. I'm happy to share that the restoration of the Bums window is progressing very well.

How does the restoration process work, you might be wondering?

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Summer Peaches I always liked peaches, especially the ones my mom and dad put up one summer in the Okanagan.

They looked so scrumptious, the bright yellow slices floating in their syrup, and among them, some bright red cherries, a little touch from my mom.

One winter night my dad and I just finished supper. Outside the north wind was whipping down the valley, sweeping over the frozen lake and drifting the snow up against the house. It whistled through the cracks and crannies. And you could feel it buffet against the house. Delicate, tiny ice crystals sifted through the keyhole in the back door and floated down to make a small pile on the floor.

My dad was rolling his after-dinner smoke. I always liked to watch as he licked two papers together, formed a trough and carefully spread the tobacco evenly. Then he gave it a few back and forth rolls, a lick and presto: one tightly rolled smoke. He tore off the protruding tobacco bits and stuck it in his mouth. Then he'd swipe a match against his pants. It lit up in a puff of smoke and flash of light and he paused while it settled down. Then he took a puff or two as the tobacco hissed and crackled. After a few coughs, he settled back. I'd watch to see if the long ash which formed would fall off, but it never did. He'd reach down and carefully and butt it in his pants' cuff. I don't think my mom would have approved of that, but she was gone by then. She died up Anarchist Mountain in a car accident. After that it was just me and my dad against the world. Yeah, I think he became kinder and more tolerant of me being a rebellious teenager. It's sad to say but I think a death can bring two people together who didn't get along before.

Anyway, as he's enjoying his smoke he said, "How's about going down and get us ajar of peaches?" I think this is just a swell idea. I hustled out to the closet, and took out the vacuum and the floor boards, flipped on the light, and climbed down the ladder to the unfinished basement. The place really gave me the willies. I always thought a ghost would reach out and grab me by the neck. All you saw were a bunch of roots splayed against the earth walls, spider webs hanging down, an old rusty airtight, and a few boards to walk on during high water. So I didn't waste any time as I hustled over to where the peaches stood in two rows up on an earth bank. I grabbed ajar and got the hell out of there. I put everything back, turned out the light and was soon back in the kitchen. My dad took a last drag of his smoke and wentto work. He popped off the lid, plunked down two bowls, and dished out those yellow beauties. He filled up the bowls with lots of juice with two cherries each. Then he said: "Dig in."

Well, those peaches tasted wonderful in their summer sweetness. With the wind howling outside, the snow drifting high, and the two of us inside where it was warm, I thought this was a good night. Of course at the back of my mind was the memory of my mom: how she worked hard all her life and died so young at 49.

And my dad, he did pretty good for an old guy who got old before his time. He only had one lung from TB when he was younger and only part of a stomach from his ulcers. But he soldiered on, building the motel mostly by himself, with my mother contributing the money she earned. They were hopeful they could retire there.

But they both had a wonderful sense of humour. Maybe it helped sustain them. One time he said: "Yeah, with a few more units we'll be on easy street." And my mom she said: "Oh yeah? A few more units and I'll be dead." And the way it turned out, she was right.

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