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Sunday, June 21st, 2020 is National Indigenous Peoples Day. The day was selected for its symbolic association with the summer solstice, a date traditionally celebrated by many Indigenous peoples and communities as the longest day of the year.

On this day, New Gold would like to pay respect to our First Nations partners and recognize their heritage, culture, language and outstanding achievements.

New Gold continues to be proud of our relationships and is committed to working collaboratively in order to achieve shared goals.

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The languages can live on for generations

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n the 1800s, the white people came exploring western North America.

At first they were friendly and treated the Aboriginal peoples with respect.

The chiefs of the Plateau in 1910 said about these first white traders and explorers, whom they called the seme7uy,or “real whites”: “The real whites we found were good people.

We could depend on their word and we trusted and respected them. They did not interfere with us, nor attempt to break up our tribal organizations, laws and customs. They did not try to force their conceptions of things on us to our harm. Nor did they stop us from catching fish, hunting, etc. They never tried to steal or appropriate our country, nor take our food and life from us.

They acknowledged our ownership of the country and treated our chiefs as men.” (Memorial to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1910).

However, after the Gold Rush in B.C. in 1958, the whites multiplied and grew and grew in number, until finally they thought they were the one who were dominant. They started to call the Aboriginal peoples “savages” and gave them disease. The worst of these diseases, the smallpox epidemic of 1862 to 1864, killed at least one-third of the Plateau peoples. At the end of this phase, the Nicola had been wiped out. Along with the deaths of many peoples in other nations, stories, history and cultural knowledge were wiped out.

But it didn’t stop there.

When British Columbia became part of Canada, residential schools were set up in the 1870s and a set of laws called the Indian Act

turned native people into wards of the government.

It was not until the 1920s, however, that residential schools were compulsory.

It was law for a native child to attend and children’s parents were thrown in jail if they did not send their children to the schools.

It is here that most of the damage was done. It is because of the residential schools that native people are struggling in their own silent struggle only spoken amongst themselves. As soon as a native child stepped onto the school grounds, they were to pretend they were white.

They were not to speak one word of their language and no native clothing was to be worn. If any of these rules were broken, they were whipped — harshly.

It was as though they were never Secwépemc and had for their whole life been white. Some people

were lucky and were able to escape, or they were lucky and never forgot their language because they practised speaking it at night, when no one was around to hear, or spoke it in their head.

But not all people were lucky. Today, only a handful of people knows Secwépmctsien, and it is an endangered language, on the verge of extinction.

There are only about 300 people left speaking it — and most of them are elders.

Each time an elder passes on, there goes a big part of the language.

That is where the website comes in — https://www. firstvoices.com/explore/FV/ sections/Data/Secwepemc/ Secwepemctsin/Secwepemc The website is for the language, for the future.

May the language and culture live long for generations to come.

— First Voices

Residential schools were built across Canada in an attempt by European settlers to destroy the culture of First Nations people, which resulted in the extinction of many Indigenous languages.

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In Kamloops, the archeological proof is under the pavement JOANNE HAMMOND

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Last year, work crews on West Victoria Street uncovered an archeological and ancestral burial site. The find halted work temporarily while researchers studied the find.

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uring construction on West Victoria Street in 2019, an archaeological and ancestral burial site was found under the asphalt at the edge of the road.

It’s a reminder that Kamloops has been occupied for millennia and that the city imposed itself on unceded land — including all the heritage sites created before settlers arrived. As a community, we need to start to talk about

what that looked like.

First, a review: There’s good archaeological and oral historical evidence that Kamloops and the entire Thompson Valley have been occupied since the last Ice Age. The area along the river from Kamloops to Chase has been called “the cradle of Secwépemc culture” — cultural traits that first appeared here are found through Secwépemcúl’ecw.

During that 500-plusgeneration-long occupation, Kamloops became a precolonial hub that left a dense material record.

Among B.C. cities, Kamloops is second only

to Victoria in number of known archaeological sites within 10 kilometres of the city centre. So, what happened? How did this land go from cradling Secwépemc to an urban swath of Euro-Canadian settlement?

Let’s go to that spot on West Victoria Street, where the ancestral burial site was found.

By around 1880, all the land around there, what would become Kamloops, had been taken up under a series of colonial land ordinances. Under these new land laws, white settlers could “pre-empt” — or occupy — free on

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PEOPLES DAY promise of improvement, up to 320 acres of land.

None of that land had been ceded to colonial authorities by treaty, sale or military force.

Secwépemc were unilaterally dispossessed of their homelands by pen strokes. The pre-emption scheme was forbidden to Indigenous people, who were being relegated to the first Indian reserves in this period.

By about 1876, when the Indian Act was passed, all the prime land in the Thompson Valleys was claimed or settled by whites.

There’s some crucial context here about the transfer of land from Secwépemc to seme7 (settlers).

First, deadly epidemics threw Indigenous communities into crisis.

The 1862-1863 smallpox bout was particularly brutal, killing more than two-thirds of Secwépemc around Kamloops. By 1910, reduced populations were all confined to Indian reserves and federal Indian agents

controlled every aspect of Indigenous life.

Permission was needed to leave reserves, fish or gather in groups.

Permission was needed to live.

Residential schools were a part of Indigenous population control, too, freeing up future land.

By the 1930s, two entire generations of Secwépemc (and Nlaka’pamux and Syilx and other) kids had been stolen and raised at the Kamloops Industrial School.

All the while, Kamloops grew.

Tk’emlups families that had owned and occupied this land for millennia became all but invisible.

But the archaeological sites remain.

Those sites are still here, under West Victoria Street, downtown, Sagebrush, Aberdeen, Brocklehurst and Valleyview. There is no neighbourhood in Kamloops that was not Tk’emlups first.

It’s an uncomfortable truth that the racist laws of a colonial state allowed a

new Kamloops to flourish without impediment. But every square inch has been built on lands that belonged to another nation.

When ancient bones or stones are uncovered in the city, when we’re confronted with material evidence of the Secwépemc past, we should not allow ourselves to be surprised by that. To imagine these sites are rare, one-offs or exceptions is a denial of our history that comes at the expense of Indigenous rights.

Secwépemc heritage is embedded in the landscape in Kamloops. We will continue to find sites as we dig and build. Many have been destroyed, but more are still there, under malls and lanes and schools and parks of Kamloops.

This is the reality of colonial occupation.

The question is: How is Kamloops going to reconcile this past with the future we want to make?

Joanne Hammond is a Kamloops-based archeologist and writer.

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Tk’emlups Chief Rosanne Casimir sees a lot of positives for the band looking forward and back.

One of the most exciting outcomes of 2019 was gambling revenue the band is now using to help preserve Secwépemc language and culture.

“For the first time in history, we started receiving gaming revenue,” Casimir said.

With those funds from Victoria, the band has created a languagerevitalization department that will provide classes and resources for band members to help in the revitalization of the Secwépemc language.

Casimir noted many Tk’emlups members have lost the language as a result of the residential school system.

Another exciting

Tk’emlups te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir (left) and Mayor Ken Christian sign a cultural heritage letter of understanding between the city and First Nation in February of 2019.

development in 2019, Casimir noted, was passage of the federal Bill C-92 — an Indigenous child welfare law that came into effect on Jan. 1.

The new law created

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bodies to pass laws governing their own child welfare systems trumping provincial, territorial and federal laws.

“With that coming into play, there’s definitely more dialogue,” Casimir said. “It’s about how it’s going to be impacting the Secwépemc Family Services and the band. For us, it’s about working with them and vice versa.”

Bus service to the reserve has been in place for more than a year and Casimir said the band’s planning department and the city have been evaluating the stops that were implemented.

“They may be adding more. They’ll be looking at the usage,” Casimir said.

The agreement is for a five-year term, with the city retaining authority on the distribution of extra service hours offered by BC Transit, but each party will

retain the authority to make decisions on transit service levels within its boundaries.

“So far, we’ve heard nothing but good about it and it’s something we want to keep up on,” Casimir said.

She said 2019 was dominated by the band council getting up to speed on finances, strategic plans carried over from previous leadership and determining next steps, Creation of an elders lodge was among the main issues during the 2018 Tk’emlups election campaign and Casimir said the facility is something the band continues to work toward.

“It’s not anything that can be done overnight or within the first year or even the first three years,” she said, adding officials remain in the informationgathering stage, but have identified land near the

Secwépemc Child and Family Services building on Chilcotin Road as its eventual location.

This spring, the band plans to undertake firemitigation work by clearing brush on the land known as Indian Point, at the nexus of the Thompson rivers, across from Sandman Centre.

Casimir said the band is also planning to do some invasive weed management on its lands in 2020.

Goals for 2020 include economic-development planning for lands the band has near Rayleigh and for pieces of land closer to the Chief Louis Centre.

“Our next steps are going to be ensuring that, one, we truly are open for business and, two, that when developers want to come and do some development on our land, that there’s a nice streamlined approach on how and what needs to be done,” Casimir said.

Neskonlith Indian Band

Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day Share with us our pride, our culture and our status as stewards of this great country.

Box 318, Chase, BC V0E 1M0 Phone: (250) 679-3295 Fax: (250) 679-5306 Home of the 2014 Secwepemc Gathering 1886 Little Shuswap Lake Rd • Chase BC • V0E 1M2 • tel 250.679.3203 • fax 250.679.3220

Adams Lake Indian Band

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Indigenous Peoples DAY NATIONAL

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

250-679-8841

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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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WEDNESDAY, June 17, 2020

www.kamloopsthisweek.com

Kamloops This Week operates on the traditional lands of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwépemc'ulucw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc.

We are honored to live and work and play on this land, acknowledge our complicated history and humbly move forward in a spirit of collaboration and gratitude.

www.kamloopsthisweek.com 250-374-7467 • 1365B Dalhousie Dr

We already know Kamloops is a kind place – and with the COVID-19 crisis, there are more opportunities than ever to celebrate that.

That’s what our new Kindloops program, presented by Valley First, a division of First West Credit Union, is all about. We’re going to celebrate all the acts of kindness Kamloopsians are doing for each other right now.

All you have to do to participate is give the name of a local individual who’s done something kind for someone else in Kamloops.

We’re going to publish those submissions in Kamloops This Week every week for the next

12 weeks, and pick one random submission each week. The person who performed that act of kindness and the person who nominated them will each get a $25 gift certificate to a local restaurant.

Then, when the COVID-19 crisis lifts, we’re going to put all the entries together into a special commemorative edition, celebrating all the acts of kindness that have been nominated, and pick one random entry. The person who performed that act and the person who nominated them will each win a prize of $500 worth of gift certificates to local restaurants!

Celebrate kindness with us in Kamloops with Kindloops.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

• Go to www.kindloops.com OR • Enter via social media - put your nomination in Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and just tag Kamloops This Week (@kamthisweek) and include the hashtag #kindloops in your post

THIS WEEK’S KINDLOOPS STORIES: MANAV GANGHAS: Glenn Hilke runs facebook group kamloops covid meal train. He is handing out over 1000 meals a week. With organizing drop off and meal prep and distribution. He is trying to partner with small businesses for sponsorships. I have went out with him and seen this guy first hand in action. This guy deserves a standing ovation. Way to go Glenn.

If you havent joined please go check Kamloops Covid meal train to see all the generous great folks part of this team.

LESLIE HALL: My neighbour, Debi Adams has a heart that overflows with kindness. She always talks about her many acts of kindness as “just something to keep me busy”. Before the pandemic she was already the force behind our annual block party, the strata book club and a lending library in our common room. No sooner had the restrictions come into place and she was dropping off handmade cards to any who requested a supply, putting Easter creations at our doors and, best of all, moving the lending library out of doors 3 days a week. She would disagree, but in my mind, she definitely deserves a reward!

KATHERINE MCPARLAND: A huge thank you to the amazing “Bikers Against Bullying” & our awesome youth for doing a full day of gardening & making this a beautiful yard. Today you have made a difference & helped make a house a home. Thank you David Jackson & Mitch Turner for your ongoing support to A Way Home Kamloops! @bikersagainstbullying

MICHELLE LASKOSKI: May 30: Today I witnessed this awesome act of kindness I had to share. I do not know either person but what I heard and saw was heart warming. This young lady asked the gentleman if she could help him cross the parking lot. He responded yes please.

She put out her arm and helped him every step chatting along the way. Thank you to the youth that are still out there smiling.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MANAV GANGHAS, THIS WEEK’S DRAW WINNER! BOTH YOU AND THE PERSON YOU WROTE ABOUT, GLENN HILKE, HAVE EACH WON A $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO CHOPPED LEAF

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WEDNESDAY, June 17, 2020

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NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

Sculpture will honour missing, murdered KAMLOOPS THIS WEEK

T

he Skeetchestn Indian Band has hired local artist Vaughn Warren to create a wood sculpture honouring the memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls (MMIWG) and LGBTQ+ individuals.

The sculpture, which is being carved from a massive chunk of cedar tree measuring five feet in diameter, will be installed at the Skeetchestn Big Sky facility on Highway 1 near Savona in September.

Warren, who specializes in large wooden sculptures and is known for creating the river totem pole in Kamloops at the intersection of Columbia Street and Summit Drive, has been consulting with First Nations elders and other members of the band

Artist Vaughn Warren stands next to a cedar log that will soon become a sculpture honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ+ individuals.

since last summer.

Talks with band members have involved the symbolism that comes to mind and their experiences in order to integrate those ideas into the sculpture’s composition, Warren said.

At one meeting, a young member of the band presented a sketch of an image of a woman reaching to the sky in a spiralling shape that has become the base design they are building on, Warren told

KTW. Warren said he wants to ensure the sculpture recognizes Skeetchestn philosophy and ways of interpreting the symbolism and issues inherent to the project.

“It’s been a very interesting journey so far,” said Warren.

According to a press release from the band, the intention of the MMIWG and LGBTQ+ memorial is to create a sculpture in a central location on Skeetchestn band land to honour these individuals and generate awareness, education, recognition, memorialization, putting an end to the cycle and healing.

“Art is a powerful tool for commemoration,” the band stated in the release.

“Public commemorations, through art, can help bring forward personal stories of colonial violence.

Art as commemoration bears witness to injustice, recognizes human dignity of victims and survivors, and calls institutions, systems and structures to account.”

Warren said the issue

of missing and murdered Indigenous women is a local problem.

“We live near the Highway of Tears — Highway 16,” said Warren, noting he’s reading a book on the topic as part of researching the greater issue.

He said he doesn’t think these crimes are highlighted enough, and by using a large piece of public art, he can draw attention to the issue and hopefully see the problem addressed in as fulsome a way as possible.

The Skeetchestn Indian Band received a $50,000 grant from the Canada’s Ministry for Women and Gender Equality in order to create the sculpture.

Warren said he’s excited to work on this project with the band and hopes when people see the sculpture they remember the missing and murdered Indigenous women.

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WEDNESDAY, June 17, 2020

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From all of us at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day.

“with teamwork we create action and pride”

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