Each week, we feature a few articles about Indigenous news, issues and initiatives with a local, national and global focus.
For the week of February 15-19, 2021,
Local
- ‘We Are Marching Until the Violence Against Women Ends’ by Jen St. Denis for the Tyee
- Bus service suspension a concern for remote Vancouver Island communities by Elena Rardon for Alberni Valley News
- History of 34 disrupted First Nations languages highlighted in exhibition at Chilliwack Museum: ‘Our Living Languages’ on loan from Victoria’s Royal BC Museum until end of May by Jenna Hauck for the Chilliwack Progress
- COVID-19 vaccinations administered ‘the Ahousaht way’ for APTN News by Odette Auger
- Check out Nuxalk Radio’s show, It7Nuxalkmc. In this episode, Tataala and Skookum Xlhalh ti Nan are teaching themselves to speak the Nuxalk language.
National
- Liidlii Kue Film Festival highlights need for representation, say northern based filmmakers by Hannah Paulson for CBC News
- Joshua Whitehead Is a Book Person by Michelle Cyca for The Tyee
Events & Opportunities
- Apply for the 2021 BC Culture Days Ambassador Program. Applications are due March 1.
- The International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) is coming up, March 4-7, and FNEL faculty, Dr. Candace Galla is giving the opening keynote address on March 4 at 8:30 am (Hawaii time). Registration closes Feb. 28. For more information and to register, click here.
- On February 25th, join Dallas Hunt, David Gaertner, Karyn Recollet and moderator Lisa Jackson for a Roundable discussion. In this roundtable discussion, panelists will take up Indigenous futurisms—the projection of Indigenous peoples into imagined futures—within the contexts of the “apocalypse.” Looking specifically toward cultural and political resurgence, they will discuss representations of the apocalypse in Indigenous literature, film, and new media while tracing out the practices of care and compassion that will sustain us in the age of the postapocalyptic. Learn more and RSVP here.