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The Relationship Between First Nations and Fish Runs in B.C.
The Adams River is running red. Thrashing through the shallows, millions of ruby-coloured Sockeye salmon battle upstream on the final leg of a four-year, 4,000-kilometre round trip that will bring...
Heiltsuk First Nation village among oldest in North America
A Heiltsuk village site on B.C.’s mid-coast is three times as old as the Great Pyramid at Giza and among the oldest human settlements in North America, according to researchers at...
Dorothy Grant
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Dorothy Grant’s work is described as emerging from the energy released in...
Students learn Indigenous teachings and culture
Elementary school students in the Valley got the chance to learn about localIndigenous traditions, culture and history from First Nation speakers. Classes, typically from Grade 3-5, met at the Tseshaht...
Culture clash to create moving, still-life mural
A unique youth art project that involves sharing of cultures between urban West Vancouver art students and teen artists from a traditional First Nations community on the B.C. coast has...
Where have all the treasures gone?
For more than 100 years, some individuals and organizations ripped off the treasures of First Nations in this province. And for just as long, First Nations have demanded they be returned....
Celebrated artist Beau Dick has died
The Alert Bay artist, who started carving at age 15 after being taught by his grandfather, was described in 1977 profile in The Province as a “name to be reckoned with...
B.C.’s growing Indigenous Tourism Sector
Paddling up mountain-encircled inlets in long canoes, drums keeping time, voices rising and falling; feasting on homemade bannock and roasted bison at a First Nations-run restaurant; spending the night at...
When This Tree Falls In a Forest, Everyone Watches
Elders such as James August selected the cottonwood for the first tree-cutting ceremony on the First Nation’s land in more than a generation. The tree was chosen months earlier, when...
Our Women Have Always Carved
On the West Coast, in the rich and diverse world of First Nations art, the master carvers responsible for the totem poles and myriad other monumental works are usually men. There...
Douglas Treaties translated into indigenous languages
For the first time since they were signed 170 years ago, the Douglas Treaties have been translated into the indigenous languages of the Sencoten and Lekwungen First Nations of Vancouver...
Surviving Canada’s Coldest Season
Webb Bennett of the Gitselasu First Nations near Terrace in northern British Columbia has heard stories about what it was like for his people to survive a winter that locks in...