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NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY Siblings Danté William and sister Rihanna listen as Pauline Saxy sings and drums at the storytelling and drumming teepee during last year’s National Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration at Riverside Park.

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ational Indigenous Peoples’ Day will be held on June 21, and the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc First Nation is preparing a celebration.

“Our goal is to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with everyone, and also to share the knowledge, culture and contributions of the Secwepemc,” said Lyle Paul, marketing co-ordinator for the Tk’emlups band.

The event will run from 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Friday — which is also the summer solstice, the longest day of the yea — at the Tk’emlips Powwow Grounds.

According to Paul, there will be vendors, entertainment and hands-on events throughout the event.

Products being offered by the vendors will include bead-

ed materials, prints, cedar bark carvings, jewellery, books, regalia and drums and clothing.

There will also be information booths.

Among the entertainment options will be bouncy castles, face-painting, workshops and a fireworks presentation after dark.

Workshops include beading and fish spear-making, which Paul said can be done by individuals or families and will take three to four hours.

“It’s based on centuries-old design that was used to spear salmon and trout, made from hardwood, bone and rawhide,” he said.

A couple of different games will be played on the day as well. Paul said there will be a lacrosse demonstration and a lahal tournament.

Lahal is a traditional game played with pieces made from bone.

“The purpose of Lahal is to bring people together and have fun playing a traditional game,” Paul said.

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The day promises an impressive lineup of musicians as well, including the Jeremy Kneeshaw Band, Richie and the Fendermen, Ryan RawEater, Guy Severight and Sheri Mari.

The Moccasin Mile Run is a one mile fun run that will take place at 4 p.m., with everyone welcome to participate, whether or not they are wearing moccasins.

With plenty to entertain, Paul hopes to see people from all walks of life attend.

“Come down and share in some of the knowledge — and just come and celebrate this free event,” he said.

National Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first celebrated as National Aboriginal Day in 1996. The name was changed to its current version in 2017.

Attendees can register in advance for the workshops or a museum tour by emailing communications@kib.ca. or by calling 250-828-9736 or 250-828-9775.

For more information, follow visit @ TkemlupsteSecwepemc on Facebook, @tkemlups on Twitter or visit the tkemlups.ca website.

National Indigenous Peoples Day The District of Logan Lake recognizes, acknowledges and celebrates the traditional territory of the Nlaka’pamux Nation.

We join you in celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day on Friday, June 21.

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June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day. It is a day for all Canadians to recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

The Canadian Constitution recognizes these three groups as Aboriginal peoples, also known as Indigenous peoples.

Although these groups share many similarities, they each have their own distinct heritage, language, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.

In co-operation with Indigenous organizations, the federal government chose June 21, the summer solstice, for National Aboriginal Day, now known as National Indigenous Peoples Day. For generations, many Indigenous peoples and communities have celebrated their culture and heritage on or near this day due to the

significance of the summer solstice as the longest day of the year.

National Aboriginal Day was announced in 1996 by then-Governor General of Canada, Roméo LeBlanc, through the proclamation declaring June 21 of each rear as National Aboriginal Day. This was the result of consultations and statements of support for such a day made by various Indigenous groups: • In 1982, the National Indian Brotherhood (now known as the Assembly of First Nations) called for the creation of National

Aboriginal Solidarity Day; • In 1995, the Sacred Assembly, a national conference of Indigenous and nonIndigenous people chaired

by Elijah Harper, called for a national holiday to celebrate the contributions of Indigenous Peoples; • Also in 1995, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples recommended the designation of a National First Peoples Day; On June 21, 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement announcing the intention to rename this day National Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Tk’emlups chief wants to build relationships Tk’emlups te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir (left) and Kamloops Mayor Ken Christian signed a cultural heritage letter of understanding between the City of Kamloops and Tk’emlups te Secwépemc in February.

Witnessing the official signing of the letter of understanding on negotiation and formalization of cultural heritage protocol agreement were Tk’emlups te Secwépemc members and Kamloops city councillors.

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For Tk’emlups te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir, National Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time for acknowledging the many successes of First Nations people.

“For us as First Nations, and all the other groups, it’s about celebrating the culture and the heritage and also acknowledging the many accomplishments of First Nations, and their achievements,” she said.

Casimir said the day is also a time for building relationships.

To that end, Tk’emlups is celebrating the day on June 21 with games, entertainment, and more from 3 p.m. until 10 p.m. at the band’s

Powwow Grounds.

In the past, celebrations had been held through the entire day, but Casimir said the band decided on the shorter schedule this year to support the

City of Kamloops’ own National Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration, which will take place in Riverside Park from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Casimir encourages everyone to visit the

Powwow Grounds for a variety of entertainment and events, including a Moccasin Mile Run — a fun run of about one mile.

“Everyone goes at their pace,” she said. “It’s

fun and healthy.”

Casimir also pointed to their fireworks show, which will take place once the sun sets, as something worth checking out.

“Our fireworks show

is a spectacular show,” she said.

However people choose to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Casimir hopes everybody will take the time to think about inclusion.

“We should be working towards lasting relationships and having a greater awareness and understanding of who we are,” she said. “By coming out and having fun, they can have a better sense of that.”

Working to build relationships is also one of Casimir’s priorities as Tk’emlups chief, all in the interest of working

to build a better community and a better city.

“We definitely have a lot of things happening and looking to the future of growing with Kamloops,” she said.

Casimir, who was elected last fall, said the band needs to see Kamloops grow collectively and to strategically look at how it can work with the City of Kamloops to accomplish that.

“First Nations can contribute a lot in that area,” she said. “I hope that everyone comes and participates at the Powwow Grounds on June 21.”

The Secwépemc Cultural Education Society (SCES) is a non-profit organization devoted to preserving and promoting the language, culture and history of the Secwépemc people. SCES was incorporated under the BC Societies Act on September 22, 1983 and is governed by Board of Directors who is appointed by Band Councils of Secwépemc Nation Bands.

Cultural Arts & Language Resources Workshops, short courses and events that will contribute to development of cultural identity, self-awareness, learning and teaching of culture and oral language.

Education / Training Assessments and Planning Education and training assessments that will provide profile information and recommendations for future education and training planning.

Secwépemc Cultural Resource People Registration Individual Secwépemc members can register for any cultural skills or talents that he/she would like to share.

Short Term and Certificate Courses Courses will be offered that will provide knowledge and skills and certification for job readiness, prerequisites for education or training, pre-trades, critical life skills for employment and life paths.

Cultural Leadership Training Training programs and workshop-based training for project management and leadership facilitation areas.

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The Secwépemc Museum, a non-profit organiza Secwépemc Bands to work in unity to preserve, recor language, history, and culture. The Secwépemc missi thriving culture and language for spiritual balance, w

The museum’s cultural displays extend into a five-h Thompson River. More than a kilometre of trails lead 2,000 year-old Secwépemc winter village site, which summer tule mat lodges, with various food preparat

Much of our history was handed down from gene recorded in books, and that is why the majority of it recorded stories by our Elders.

Secwepemctsín is on the list of endangered langua trying to remedy this by hosting and co-hosting man language classes, cultural workshops, recording Elde building resources for the use of future generations.

Storytelling workshops are held in the Heritage Park.

For a traditional atmosphere, they are sometimes held in the pithouses (winter homes called c7istkten) and a fire is made in the firepit.

Four Galleries The galleries provide a unique look into the history and culture of the Secwépemc, as well as beautiful displays of our rich culture and heritage.

Kamloops Indian Residential School Exhibit A personal look into the operations of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Introduction into the Secwépemc Nation This exhibit offers a brief explanation of the 17 bands that make up our Nation, and the territory of Secwépemculecw.

Traditional Clothing and Tools Exhibits Learn about the daily lives of the Secwépemc, before European contact.

Canoe and Transportation Displayed in the museum are the two commonly used canoes – the cotton wood dug out canoe and the birch bark canoe.

Ethnobotanical Gardens Exhibit Delve into the past and see how the Secwépemc used and preserved traditional plants.

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ation, follows a mandate signed by the seventeen rd, perpetuate and enhance the Secwépemc ion is to work in unity to have a living and which sustains and honors our heritage.

hectare Heritage Park, located on the banks of the ds visitors through the archaeological remains of a features four reconstructed winter pit houses and tions structures.

eration to generation through oral history and not tems on display in the museum are artifacts and

Elders: Loretta Seymour, Florence Sampson, Garlene Dodson and Christine Simon holding Cow-Parsnip, known as Indian celery and Indian rhubarb by the Secwépemc.

ages. The Secwépemc Museum & Heritage Park is ny innovative programs involving Secwepemctsín ers as they speak the language, archiving, and .

Harvesting and Cooking The beautifully displayed traditional steaming pit offers a look how the Secwépemc “steam cooked/qulst’em” in the earth.

Wild Food Harvest Life-like indigenous plants in their natural growth form. The exhibits show how they look when they are ready to be harvested, how they are harvested, and the nutritional and medicinal properties of each plant.

Five Hectare Heritage Park Life-size replica of a c7istkten (Secwépemc traditional winter home), and an ethnobotanical garden located on an archeological site with cultural depressions.

Gift Shop The museum hosts a gift shop featuring local First Nations arts and crafts.

Group Tours Year-Round Museum, Heritage Park, Residential, and Cultural Education school tours.

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Ignaces honoured for work with the Indigenous Simon Fraser University professor Marianne Ignace and husband Ronald Ignace, chief of the Skeetchestn Indian Band were recognized on May 29 with a Governor General’s Award for Innovation for their decades-long work with Indigenous communities in B.C. The Ignaces were lauded for developing a collaborative approach to research involving Indigenous people and communities, one that respects and furthers public understanding of Indigenous peoples’ connection to the land and language.

“Obviously it’s a huge honour to have received this award,” Marianne said.

“When we got the news, we were just elated and just really, really thrilled. It was somewhat unexpected. Really, we were just humbled.”

Their work combines advocating and practising Western scientific knowledge in dialogue with the wisdom and knowledge of past and present elders.

The award recognizes and celebrates outstanding Canadian

Marianne Ignace and husband, Ronald, chief of the Skeetchestn Indian Band, travelled to Ottawa at the end of May to accept their Governor General’s Award for Innovation.

individuals, teams and organizations that are “trailblazers and creators who contribute to our country’s success, who help shape our future and who inspire the next generation.”

Marianne, a faculty member in SFU’s departments of linguistics and First Nations studies, cofounded, with Ronald, the university’s award-winning Kamloops program in 1988.

She also co-developed, with colleagues and departments at SFU, the university’s First Nations studies, language proficiency and language courses.

Between 1988 and 2010, more than 400 students graduated from the Kamloops program with SFU credentials in anthropology and sociology, linguistics, First Nations studies and archaeology.

Ronald completed his PhD in

anthropology at SFU in 2008.

His dissertation, Our Oral Histories are Our Iron Posts: Secwepemc Stories and Historical Consciousness, is a road map for his life accomplishments.

He has also been the elected chief of the Skeetchestn Indian Band for more than 28 years.

The Ignaces co-authored a book, Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws, that received the 2018 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize for outstanding book on British Columbia.

For decades, the Ignaces have worked with Secwepemc language speakers to record stories and oral histories and have engaged younger generations in re-learning these.

Marianne has also worked with Haida and Sm’algyax speaking elders, creating curricula and resources to enable the transmission of their languages

to younger generations.

Since 2013, she has been the director of a project called First Nations Languages in the Twenty-first Century: Looking Back, Looking Forward, a $2.5-million a federal government project grant that brings together 22 Indigenous grassroots partner organizations from 12 languages in B.C., Yukon and Alaska and more than 20 academic co-applicants and collaborators.

The project has seen extensive documentation with Indigenous language elders, developed language learning apps and created innovative digital storage and retrieval systems that are providing First Nations language learning opportunities.

During the past five years, SFU’s First Nations language programs have grown from attracting a few dozen students to more than 300 last fall.

Courses are taught across B.C. and the Yukon in partnership with elders and language experts from 14 First Nations across the province.

Congratulations neskonlith graduates!

Neskonlith hosted its annual Graduation and Recognition Ceremony on June 12th at the Community arbour on IR#1 near Chase, BC. Over 40 students walked the red carpet to receive their certificates for the completion of programs ranging from kindergarten through High school, as well as professional, college and university certificates and diplomas including two students completing Master degrees.

Neskonlith Education Director Tammy Thomas proudly announced that there are 100 people either in the school system or graduating this year. Thomas attributes the program’s success to the community’s ability to build collaborative working relationships and partnerships with higher learning institutions such as Okanagan College, Thompson Rivers University Trades Dept, Tk’emlups te Secwepemc, Adams Lake, Little Shuswap Lake, and Splatsin Bands.

Chief Judy Wilson opened the graduation event, commenting on how proud she was that Neskonlith is on the cutting edge in providing the nation with excellent and varied educational opportunities. “We have such a great staff and very strong educational team. Everyone works so hard for all our band members.”

Neskonlith has its own accredited high school and adult education institution on the IR2 near Chase. “Our Neskonlith Education Center School is a bridge to the many wonderful training programs that our Band can access,” says Principal Deb McDougall. “This September we will have a wide variety of academic classes as well as hands on learning like horticulture, apiculture, and even hopefully driver’s education including classroom and road experience. We also have one of the richest language and culture programs in the area, due in large part to the efforts of Janice Dick Billy. Our school Elder teaches Secwepemctsin language classes twice weekly.

Land based culture classes taught by local elders happen weekly and sometimes includes non-band members and other community members. Students’ programs are individualized to fit their needs, learning styles and future goals. We are currently taking registrations for the upcoming school year through the summer.

For more information about these educational opportunities, please call the reception desk at Neskonlith Education Center at 250-679-2963 or call the NEC principal directly at 250-852-1011.

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Promoting Indigenous culture in the Shuswap

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project to enhance the knowledge of Secwépemc landmarks and culture in the Shuswap is receiving $100,000 from the BC Rural Dividend Program.

The Secwépemc Landmarks and Trail Sign project will involve Secwépemc artists, elders and youth designing and installing sculptures, viewing portals and trailhead signs that showcase Secwépemc values and culture.

With the grant funding approved, the project will now proceed to design and implementation.

The project has financial support from the provincial government.

A series of iconic landmark sculptures

Shelley Witzky, an Adams Lake Indian Band councillor, and Sutra Brett of the Shuswap Trail Alliance examine some of the preliminary models for the Secwépemc Landmarks and Trail Sign project. The first landmark will be placed near the wharf at Marine Park in Salmon Arm. TRACY HUGHES/COLUMBIA-SHUSWAP REGIONAL DISTRICT PHOTO

will be installed at key, highly visited areas of the Shuswap.

These will include Secwépemc names, culture and stories. A series of viewing portals would be installed

to allow people to look through at specific historical locations and landmarks, with both the Secwépemc and English names.

The portals will allow visitors to take

a peek at specific sites and learn more about the history and culture of the area.

Signposts, designed

by Secwépemc artists, would also be placed at various trailhead loca-

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tions in the region.

“This initiative is another way for Secwépemc to create more awareness of our presence within our traditional territory,” Adams Lake Indian

Band Coun. Shelley Witzky said.

In August 2018, the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District board unanimously authorized an application to the BC Rural Dividend Fund to support the bands in the development and implementation of the Secwépemc Landmarks and Trail Sign Project.

The initiative is being spearheaded by the Adams Lake Indian Band, Neskonlith Indian Band, Splatsin Indian Band and the Shuswap Trail Alliance, with support from Shuswap Tourism.

In order to qualify for the Rural Dividend

Grant, the three bands agreed to contribute $30,000 for the first landmark to be placed at Marine Park in Salmon Arm. This project is part of the Secwépemc Cultural Tourism Initiative and will be guided by a joint committee of elders.

The project recognizes the growing interest in authentic Indigenous, trailsbased destination tourism among visitors to the region and hopes to increase awareness of Secwépemc history and culture. It also supports the vision of creating a world-renowned trail system in the Shuswap and around B.C.

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY TO EVERYONE IN SECWEPEMCUL’ECW

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The Village of Chase is honoured to be part of celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day in beautiful Secwepemc territory.

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A bid to buy majority stake in pipeline

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here are as many as a half-dozen Indigenous groups interested in an equity stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion project from Alberta to the coast — and Shane Gottfriedson wants his bid to emerge as the winner.

Gottfriedson, former Tk’emlups te Secwepemc chief and former B.C. regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations, is now B.C. director of Project Reconciliation, which hopes to lead the effort to acquire a majority stake in Trans Mountain.

The oil and fuel pipeline that has run through his territory since 1954 is a step towards financial self-sufficiency for up to 300 Indigenous groups in Western Canada, Gottfriedson said during a visit to the B.C. legislature earlier this month.

The federal Liberal government has re-approved the project after a court-ordered review of Indigenous consultation and the impact of expanded crude oil shipping on marine life.

“We’ve had some preliminary discussions with the federal government,” Gottfriedson said.

SHANE GOTTFRIEDSON “Project Reconciliation is preparing to announce a financial partner in the venture in the coming weeks,” he said.

“We are offering all Indigenous groups in Western Canada — more than 300 in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan — to sign up as majority shareholders for a 51 per cent stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline.

“As a former chief, I am here to tell you, it is high time we shifted our focus from managing historic poverty to managing future prosperity.”

Project Reconciliation aims to put 80 per cent of its pipeline profits into what is calls a sovereign wealth fund to develop infrastruc-

ture and businesses in Indigenous communities.

In August 2018, the federal government purchased the pipeline from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion.

On June 14, Gottfriedson spoke at an Indigenous Opportunities conference in Vancouver, where he argued First Nations communities should “have a seat at the table” in the project’s management, both to earn benefits from a project that appears inevitable and to protect Aboriginal cultural values in the land.

Some 250 First Nations community leaders and industry executives attended the conference at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, which addressed the business end of First Nations involvement in resource projects.

The event occurred almost a week after First Nations were front and centre at a protest in Vancouver against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

Gottfriedson said the Project Reconciliation efforts will remain respectful of those communities that oppose Trans Mountain’s expansion.

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“Who am I to tell anybody that Project Reconciliation is good for you, sign up?” Gottfriedson said.

“Our approach is to work with First Nations who want to work with us, on their terms and their land, and build a pipeline.”

The band Gottfriedson led as chief, Tk’emlups, has a $3-million community benefits agreement in place if the pipeline expansion proceeds.

A neigbouring band, the Neskonlith in the Chase area, is opposed to the project crossing its territory.

Supporters and opponents of the pipeline expansion project can be found in First Nations communities across the length of the route.

One part of reconciliation with First Nations involves protecting the environment and communities’ way of life, Gottfriedson said. “{But] if people say no, they don’t want it, then the answer is no,” he said. “We find a way to work around it.”

Gottfriedson said he is confident in pipeline safety, from regulations to the technology used in monitoring, and sees his job as getting accurate information in front of

communities “to make informed decisions.”

Expansion of the 1,100-kilometre pipeline will involve twinning the existing line, with new routes for a second line in much of the Lower Mainland, which will nearly triple its capacity to 890,000 barrels of oil per day.

The expansion will include 28.4 kilometres through Kamloops.

Project opponents decry the expansion of bitumen production from Alberta’s oilsands that the pipeline would support.

Gottfriedson, however, said “we’d be foolish to say we’re not energy-dependent” and argued the project “is an opportunity to build economic reconciliation.

“As First Nations, we’ve got a long, rich history of managing poverty,” Gottfriedson said.

“Now it’s time that we start getting into wealth creation and taking advantage of opportunities.”

Since his days Tk’emlups and B.C. regional chief, Gottfriedson has gone into business.

He owns the Tim Hortons restaurant on the Tk’emlups reserve and is developing some property he owns.

City of Kamloops Office of the Mayor

National Indigenous Peoples Day On behalf of my colleagues on City Council, we join you in celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day. We are proud of our long-standing relationships with local First Nations and the Kamloops and area Métis.

We look forward to a day of celebration and recognition on June 21st.

Sincerely, Mayor Ken Christian Councillor Dale Bass Councillor Dieter Dudy Councillor Sadie Hunter

Councillor Mike O’Reilly Councillor Bill Sarai Councillor Kathy Sinclair

Councillor Dale Bass

Kamloops.ca Councillor Dieter Dudy

Councillor Sadie Hunter Councillor Mike O’Reilly

Councillor Arjun Singh Councillor Denis Walsh

Councillor Bill Sarai Councillor Kathy Sinclair Councillor Arjun Singh Councillor Denis Walsh

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Knowledge Makers brings together more than 40 Elders, deans, faculty and staff from across TRU to mentor Indigenous students to publish and succeed as Indigenous researchers.

This is not a first for TRU: what began in 2018 with a STLHE award to Professor Lyn Baldwin for innovative teaching continues with this year’s collaborative teaching award to Knowledge Makers. We couldn’t be prouder.

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