Volume 11 • Issue 05
JUNE 2015
Our Children ADOPTION ON OUR TERMS PAGES 4-5 THE INDIAN IN THE CHILD UNVEILED PAGES 6-7 ‘COOL-TURE’ FOR YOUTH PAGE 8
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OPINION
TAKING CARE OF OUR OWN
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ne of the most striking comments made by Tricia Thomas in her article Adopting an Indigenous World View on Pages 4-5 was: “There are more of our children in care now than at the height of the residential school system.” Think about that for a minute and then go on and read Tricia’s three stories about adoptions, residential schools and reclaiming culture on the six centre pages
of this edition. It is depressing how little things have changed over the decades, but it is also encouraging to see the positive ways these big issues are being addressed in our communities. Our hands are raised to advocates such as Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, BC’s uncompromising representative for children and youth. One can only hope that all our bureaucrats and politicians will learn from her. Praise must also go to leaders like Darren Blaney, the councillor and artist from Homalco. He raised a son who told the truth to his fellow students and created an
artwork The Indian in the Child. It will be an ongoing object lesson and teaching aid about the impacts of residential schools. Tributes must also go to other Homalco leaders – such as Chief Maryann Enevoldsen and councillor Dorothy Andrew-Paul – who share their stories as the nation reintroduces youth to the deep traditions at a ‘cultural boot camp’ in the traditional territory around Bute Inlet. Good things are happening; better days are coming. June 21 is National Aboriginal Day. Take some time to celebrate, and learn about, the vibrant cultures of those who first lived around the Salish Sea.
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COVER PHOTO: Four-year-old Sumayuh, wearing a traditional cedar hat and wool blanket, was photographed by Tricia Thomas on the bank of the Chemainus River.
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Rueben George (right) of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation travelled to Houston, Texas in early May to attend Kinder Morgan’s annual meeting and delivered a message to the energy giant’s executive. “I’m here to tell you that Tsleil-Waututh Nation will never consent to the Trans Mountain project,” George said. He was with SumOfUs.org and that organization earlier travelled to Wall Street with Chief Maureen Thomas to meet with top investment firms to talk about the nation’s opposition to the pipeline project.
HARRY OFFICIALLY A LEGEND
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arry Xul-si-malt Manson (1879-1912) will be formally inducted into the Legends class in Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary on June 17. The honour recognizes Manson “for his leadership as a First Nations athlete and for breaking through racial barriers at the turn of the century “Harry was a strong believer in the principle that you could be successful even when the odds were working against you,” the Hall of Fame said. “He lived those values as the only player of Indigenous descent to play on the three Nanaimo premier soccer teams between 1897 and 1905. “Harry was aptly named Xul-si-malt, meaning ‘One who leaves his mark’ and laid the path for the future aboriginal athletes that followed him. He died tragically in a coal train accident in 1912, but his legacy in soccer carries on.” Manson was also named a Pioneer in Canada’s Soccer Hall of Fame in 2014. PHOTO: Harry Xul-si-malt Manson. Photo courtesy of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
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SALMON STARVE IN LOW, WARM WATERS
Chief Thomas and other fishery workers tried to repair the damage
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By Tricia Thomas
he worst fears are coming true for Halalt First Nation. Unusually low water levels are threatening salmon-bearing streams on the reserve. Halalt has been fighting to protect the Chemainus River since 2003 when North Cowichan announced it wanted to pump from wells in the river’s aquifer to supply people in the Chemainus area with water. After losing a legal battle that went to the BC Court of Appeal, Chief James Thomas warned of the danger to fish and habitat from the pumping. Earlier this year, Halalt, Lyackson, Penelakut and Stz’uminus fisheries transplanted 80,000 chum eggs. When Thomas examined the site in early March he found that a side-channel was drying up, eggs had hatched early and were trapped in small puddles. “This is an anomaly,” he said. “I have never seen such low water levels during this time of year. We are seeing August water levels during the month of March. With less snow pack, it is a major issue for rivers where stream flows are driven by the snowmelt. “With the lower levels, the water temperature was warmer than normal, so most of the salmon hatched early. They probably won’t make it because they are pin-headed, which means they’re starving.” He said that the side-channel had dried up in many places and the likelihood of the spawn making it to the ocean was slim. Halalt has attempted to artificially recharge the side-channel by releasing wa-
A small chum salmon died without water
ter from its own supply. But this is only a temporary fix and the warm dry weather isn’t the only challenge. In September 2009, the Halalt First Nation filed a petition with the Supreme Court of BC to stop the Municipality of North Cowichan from drilling two new wells and installing a one-million-gallon reservoir. In early 2010, the wells were drilled on the edge of the Halalt reserve.
JOHN NEEDS OUR SUPPORT Snuneymuxw’s John Wyse, a shellfish farmer and father of three, John Wyse has been suffering with deteriorating health from a rare form of multiple sclerosis. The 40-year old was diagnosed in 2010 with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS), a relentless form of the disease. Now Wyse is in a race against time to find help from a new experimental therapy. There are only nine clinics worldwide offering the treatment. A clinic in Israel has scheduled Wyse
Each is capable of pumping about seven million litres of water a day from the aquifer that feeds the Chemainus River that runs through the reserve. Despite a policy that the municipality would reduce pumping rates if necessary to mitigate adverse effects, there has been no reduction. The municipality also wants to go from only pumping in winter months to all-year while adding another reservoir. Chief Thomas said the wells project infringes on Halalt rights to the Chemainus aquifer, which has always been the nation’s water source and a vital part of the culture. He said the health of the river and aquifer is integral to the Halalt people in terms of food, plants and traditional bathing areas. for treatment in April 2016, but it will cost $158,200. Since December, several fundraisers have raised only a small part of that. But comedian Don Burnstick has stepped up to star in a fundraiser at Nanaimo’s Port Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on July 3. The $25 tickets are available at the theatre’s box office. Wyse and his family also have an online donation page on Gofundme for those who wish to contribute.
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FORUM FOR CHANGE
ADOPTING AN INDIGENOUS WORLD VIEW
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By Tricia Thomas
he days of secret adoptions are over as is the practice of ‘kill the Indian to save the child’. Those are two important things I learned in April when I attended the Forum for Change in Snuneymuxw territory. Subtitled Reconciliation for Today’s First Nations, Metis & Aboriginal Children Through Custom Adoption and Lifelong Family and Tribal Connections, the event featured the impressive Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, BC’s representative for children and youth. Joining her were people from the Ministry of Children and Family Development as well as Aboriginal leaders from throughout BC, including people like Bill Yoachim of Snuneymuxw who is executive director of Kw’umut Lelum Child and Family Services. Delegates at the two-day forum investigated the strategies and the collaborative approaches necessary to ensure that
Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
Aboriginal children and youth in government care are supported in ways that will establish secure and lifelong connections to their family and their cultural heritage. Turpel-Lafond issued a report entitled Finding Forever Families: A Review of the Provincial Adoption System, which showed that, at any given time, more than 1,000 BC children and youth in care of the ministry were waiting to be adopted. I learned that when we look at the importance of attachment and bonding, one of the things we should focus on is identity and belonging. We need to look at who children are, where they come from and whom they are connected to. And we need
to respect how each nation’s ancestors defined and practiced custom adoption. Cultural planning for adoptions is valuebased and is an inherent cultural right. When we disconnect our children from their communities, we not only impact the child, but also negatively impact the social and cultural fabric of the nation. We now face the tragedy of lost children in the new millennium. There are more of our children in care now than at the height of the residential school system. That system was a national disgrace that pressured Prime Minister Stephen Harper to give a national apology for the catastrophic impact on First Nations across Canada. Children need to stay connected to their community and only after exhaustive efforts should we even think about placement in a non-aboriginal home. They may not be able to live with their biological parents, but that doesn’t take away their right to be connected to their culture. We need to have a cultural plan for every Aboriginal child, one that is morally, ethically and legally binding, especially if the children are going to a non-aboriginal caregiver. Otherwise it could lead to an adoption break down.
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A FEW COMMENTS FROM DELEGATES STOOD OUT: “We need to work collectively…to move past the shame, blame and judgment that we have experienced in this field and move towards focusing on reconciliation, telling the truth, acknowledging where we have been, where we are going, to restoring the damage and moving towards relationships. And we need to address the realities of the over-representation of our kids in care.” Lise Haddock “Come walk with us and get to know our people. Then you will understand. Come help us to look after our children.” Chief Clem Seymour of the Seabird Island Band “Every child needs a family and a parent to love them.” Jocelyn Antione of Snuneymuxw
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RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
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The transformation mask represents the spirit that was taken from native people by residential schools. It is called The Indian in the Child. ’ – Darren Blaney
THE FACE INSIDE…
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By Tricia Thomas
Kai Blany opens the mask
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ne day Kai Blaney, son of Homalco councillor and artist Darren Blaney, came home from school with a surprising story. When Kai’s fellow students were looking at an old photo of residential school students, they noticed the profound sadness in the children’s eyes and thought it was because they had perhaps simply missed a school field trip. Kai explained that the children looked so sad because they had been taken from their families when they were very young. This inspired his father to create a piece of art in order to share the history and culture of his people with the students at Southgate Middle School in Campbell River. He designed a transformation mask to represent the spirit that was taken
RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
A We Wai Kai dancer performed
Darren Blaney explains the carvings
from native people by residential schools and called it The Indian in the Child. Two other carvings of Raven and Wolf were mounted on either side of the mask on a large cedar plank. The creation was unveiled at the school on May 6. It will remain on display for students to observe and will become a part of teachings about the deep-rooted impacts of residential schools. Darren shared what the carvings mean and how they reflected Homalco’s traditional creation story. The transformation mask is really two masks in one. The outer mask, made of yellow cedar, represents the colonialist methods that attempted to assimilate First Nations people. An inner mask of red cedar represents the child before residential school. “When the children were taken out of their communities, the teachings were
not that engrained in them so it was easy to wipe them away,” Darren said. The carvings on each side of the mask also had a story, he said. “Raven, in traditional stories, was called upon to deal with any issues that arose. Raven brought our people together and is connecting us back to the land. The wolf is where our people come from, part of the creation story.” Here is one version of the Homalco Creation Story. Children were told not to play around the pine trees and not to play with the tree’s pitch because it was like a medicine. Although her grandmother warned her against playing near the trees, the girl did not listen. One day she went to the trees and played there. She ate the pitch and got pregnant. She was banished from the village and made to live down by the river where she dug clams for sustenance. Raven
told the grandmother to give the girl a large horse-clam shell with an ember in it so she could have a fire and stay warm throughout the winter. The girl gave birth to eleven puppies. The longhouses were just up from the beach where the puppies would sleep. The new mother would hear noises coming from the longhouses and would go up to take a look. Every time she went up and looked in the window it would be dark and they would all be sleeping. One night, while down by the river, she placed her hat and cape on her clam digging stick, to appear as if she was digging for clams. She snuck up to the long house and peered into the window. The puppies had shed their skins and they were dancing naked, in human form, by the fire. The mother went into the longhouse and threw all the skins onto the fire. Because of this the puppies had to remain human.
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ORFORD BAY JOURNEY
BOOT CAMP IS ‘COOL-TURE’ Reclaiming culture in Bute Inlet
Council Dorothy Andrew-Paul (left) and Chief Maryann Enevoldsen
By Tricia Thomas
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outh from Homalco and Tla’amin nations are reclaiming their culture and getting summer jobs guiding visitors to the traditional territory at the mouth of Bute Inlet thanks to a project called ‘cultural boot camp’. Shawn O’Connor, manager of Homalco Wildlife Tours, calls the learning opportunity for 21 youth under 30 years old “Cool-ture – we are making culture cool.” Youth are learning to drum, sing, prepare food traditionally and paddle canoes for the upcoming spring and summer tours to Orford Bay. After weeks of training, the boot campers helped guide the first tour on May 31 with a second scheduled for June 21, National Aboriginal Day. The early season tours mark an expansion from the late summer Bears of Bute excursions. And I’Hos Tours of Tla’amin nation is a partner as the two nations have been working together since March to support their youth to reclaim their language and culture. Chief Maryann Enevoldsen of Homalco is a big backer of the project. “To have our people singing, dancing and practicing our culture – and up until now it has been non8 SALISH SEA SENTINEL
existent – and reclaiming that for Homalco has always been a very strong dream of mine and I am so grateful that it is actually happening now.” She talked about the huge impacts, in terms of culture, the residential schools had on all First Nations. “My grandmother made my mom promise not to teach us the language and culture because she was afraid that it was going to happen again. Because
my father is non-native, my grandmother believed that my skin was fair enough that I could get by unnoticed. “My mother struggled with the promise she made to my grandmother before she passed away and to have us really wanting to learn. It took a few years before she finally opened up and started teaching us.” “My mother Adeline Billows was five years old when she was taken to residential school and she couldn’t speak English at all. I am really glad that she was able to hang on to as much of the language as she did, as she still can speak our language fluently.
“It goes to show how important the early years are.” said Enevoldsen. “We started doing burnings for our ancestors again and my mom played an integral part in teaching families how to do that.” Homalco councillor Dorothy AndrewPaul also grew up on the reserve, not knowing anything about her culture because there was no one teaching it. “My son started my journey for me. He was doing a history project in school and he needed to know who we are and where we come from. And he had all these questions that I couldn’t answer. So, when I wanted to learn, I reached out to Adeline, knowing she was my grandmother’s niece and started asking her how to say certain words in our language and it became a daily thing. Growing up we didn’t have this and it’s something we want to change for future generations.” In early May, youth travelled to Haida Gwaii for a week and performed every night for the host nation, learning more about protocol and processes. More info at www.bearsofbute.net PHOTOS (left to right): culture underlies the work; Adeline Billows; boot campers head out. Background photo: paddling to Orford.
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OUR RESOURCES
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CLEANER ENERGY ALTERNATIVES ENERGY PLANNING FOR OUR NATIONS Ever wonder why there aren’t wind turbines or solar panels in all communities around the Salish Sea or why we pay so much for heating and powering our homes? Halalt, Homalco, Tsawwassen and Stz’uminus First Nations are about to find out answers to these questions and more thanks to $80,000 in funding from the provincial First Nation Clean Energy Business Fund to Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council (NmTC). The project will coordinate an eight-month community energy planning process with those nations beginning June 1. The purpose of the project is to gain an understanding of each community’s energy needs and goals while identifying opportunities for energy savings and viable renewable energy generation.
Chief James Thomas of Halalt, who is also chair of NmTC, said: “We are looking forward to exploring our community energy opportunities more closely and the savings that might result. We spend a lot of money every year on heating and powering our public buildings and if we could channel some of that elsewhere, it would be great.” A consulting team will identify current energy consumption patterns, future energy needs, energy resources and infrastructure. Inspections of key buildings as well as some member’s homes will take place in each community on energy efficiency issues. The team will also examine local natural resources in or near the communities to determine the potential for renewable power generation including wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and tidal.
Leaders from the 203 nations in the province will vote for a new regional chief when the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations (BCAFN) holds its elections in Vancouver on June 25. Among the early candidates (nominations closed on May 26) was former Snuneymuxw chief Doug White III who declared his candidacy via Twitter on May 9. Weeks earlier, Chief Bob Chamberlin of Kwicksutaineuk Ah-kwa-mish First Nation announced his candidacy, accompanied by his partner, lawyer Melissa Louie of Sliammon.
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SALISH SEA CALENDAR
JUNE 6-7
JUNE 19-21
JUNE 27-28
Canoe races at Cultus Lake, near Chilliwack
Canoe races at Cowichan Bay
Canoe races at Harrison Hot Springs
JUNE 13-14 Canoe races at Lummi Stommish, near Bellingham, WA
JUNE 20-21 Canoe races at Scowlitz, near Harrison Mills
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Learning the basics of proposal writing
Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council (NmTC) facilitated a proposal-writing workshop in the ongoing support of our members. Two representatives per nation were invited to take part in the skill-building opportunity held recently in Parksville. The session included developing a proj-
ect outline and proposal as well as identifying goals, objectives, budget items and deliverables. Attendees learned that successful proposal writing is an important step in securing business contracts. It takes practice to be able to describe a project in a way that matches the particular format that the funders want in the proposal submission. Participants were told how to connect with funders and the valuable feedback that can be gained from them if a proposal is submitted early. NmTC plans to hold a project management/planning workshop at the end of June to follow up with understanding how to manage the project after a proposal is accepted.
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RECEPTIONISTS MEET AGAIN Some of the key people from our nations – receptionists – will be gathering for a professional development retreat in Parksville on June 10–11. It follows the team-building workshop hosted by NmTC last year. This year receptionists will learn skills and techniques for smooth day-to-day operations. More info can be found at www.nmtcevents.com
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