SFU Races to Preserve B.C. First Nations Languages

The Squamish language, Skwxwú7mesh snichim, is on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 10 fluent speakers remaining. All B.C. First Nations face a similar reality, which is creating an...

B.C. Marks Canada 150 with Cultural Legacies

TO mark the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation, the Province is launching a funding program to celebrate B.C. communities and their contribution to Canada. The Government of British Columbia will...

Discovering Haida Gwaii

By Lindsay Salt, Postmedia News. It takes determination to reach Haida Gwaii. From Vancouver, we travelled by car and ferry. It was barely light when we left Port Hardy. The...

Okanagan Wine Festivals Society Teams-up with Haida Wild Seafoods

The cast has been thrown and the catch is in, The Okanagan Wine Festivals Society (OWFS) is proud to announce the new partnership with a West Coast organization, Haida Wild...

Film Made Entirely in Two Haida Dialects

  The powerhouse producers behind the iconic Inuit film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner are partnering with the Haida First Nation in B.C. to make a feature-length film made entirely in two Haida dialects. ...

UBC Receives a Donation of Native Art

An extensive collection of indigenous art valued at about $7 million is being given to the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia by an anonymous donor. At more...

$10M Royal B.C. Museum reno

The Royal B.C. Museum is revving up for a $10-million renovation to showcase some of 1,100 Emily Carr works now in storage, refurbish its 1970s-era First Peoples Gallery and create a...

Aboriginal Sacred Plants: Sage

  Sage, along with sweetgrass, red cedar and tobacco, is one of the four plants considered sacred by First Nations and Métis Peoples. Sage is used broadly for many purposes by...

Science is finally catching up to oral traditions

  The long history of First Nations people isn't one that can be found in books. Instead, it is a rich documentation detailed throughout time — a collective enterprise carried on...

Native Oral Traditions

Throughout history, Aboriginal societies in North America have relied on the oral transmission of stories, histories, lessons and other knowledge to maintain a historical record and sustain their cultures and...

Centennial Totem Pole slated for renewal

Hewn from red cedar, Mungo Martin's iconic Centennial Totem Pole had been telling history to the sky since 1958, but weather, insects and time are taking their toll. "This amazing...

Commemorative Crest Pole

“Claiming space in people’s imagination.” Haida master carver Jim Hart, Chief Eidansuu, has created a crest pole commemorating the lives of children sent to residential schools and the reconciliation that...