“It’s funny how it all ties together, like the whole theme of the Dude’s Club is vulnerability and trying to get men, especially Indigenous older men, to open up. And that’s kind of also been my own personal journey.
After carefully stepping down a bouldered stairway, syilx Nation members stop at the edge of sq’awsitkʷ (the Okanagan River), with one baseball-sized rock in each hand — ready to call their salmon relatives home.
Early discussions have started about a quarter-millennium-long plan to protect siwɬkw (water) in the Okanagan-Similkameen region’s watersheds.
It was the middle of the pandemic, and syilx Okanagan artist q̓ʷəq̓ʷcw̓íyaʔ (Chipmunk) Taylor Baptiste found herself feeling homesick for her Osoyoos Indian Band community.
The fourth Nk’Mip Osoyoos Lake Water Science Forum, “The Heart of the Watershed: Bridging Indigenous and Western Approaches to Knowledge, Science and Management,” will finally be presented this month after several re-schedules due to COVID-19 restrictions.
A two-year pilot program will bring Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members together at the kitchen table to discuss truth and reconciliation. The first gatherings are planned in syilx Territory this fall.
Indigenous environmental activists from opposite sides of the globe shared their successes and strategies at a recent Okanagan Nation Alliance water forum, where representatives from among the eight member communities that compose the alliance learned about the first river to be legally recognized as a person.
The Osoyoos Indian Band’s Brenda Baptiste is one of thirty-one people invested into the Order of British Columbia during a ceremony at Government House in Victoria on Thursday, March 3.
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