http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=YA-xQ2BGeFM This next video is by an Australian Aboriginal man named Archie Roach. He is singing a song of a young girl who was taken away from her home and put into a residential school. The Australian natives experience is identical to the North American Indian experience. Their present day lives are also identical. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=wPVcX5u3WrY A visit to the Secwepemc Museum and Heritage Park. This museum is on the site of a 7000 year old Secwepemc encampment. Over 70 depressions were found in the ground along the riverbank from old Secwepemc Kukwele homes. Those are the subterranean winter homes that they used to live in. There is a full size reconstructed kukwele home that you can walk in and see what it looks like. These were subterreanean winter homes used by the Secwepemc people through the ages. The museum has reconstructed a village where you can walk through and enter life size replicas. You can see the different men's entrance from a ladder coming through the top. You can learn about the different traditional plant uses. There is a trail you can walk down and see different plants, birds, wildlife. You might even spot some Simon Fraser University archaeology students are down doing an excavation on site. they come every summer to do an archaeology dig. Inside the museum the ticket includes a video about the Secwepemc people and see different artifacts on display throughout the museum. We met Treese a secwepemc lady who is so knowledgeable about her culture and very willing to share and teach what she knows. Treese really gave us a laugh when she showed us a replica of the underground pit ovens which have a fire buried underneath layers of different roots, and bulbs, and vegetables. the food is covered with soil for several hours and left to cook. She told us she likes to call this "Aboriginal Stir Fry - Unplugged". That was so funny. She was so full of knowledge. I am sure if we had the time to stay longer she could have taught us a lot more. The village has a tule mat lodge, hunting lean-to, fish drying rack, fish trap, smoke house and traditional plant foods. The Secwepemc Ethnobotanical Gardens located in the Heritage Park are divided into five zones, each representing a different ecosystem found within the Secwepemc Territory. The history of the Kamloops Indian Residential School is a legacy of European churches trying to eliminate the North American Indian traditions, language, and culture. In the museum Treese pointed out old photographs of residential school students in the 1920-1970's dressed up in traditional scottish highlander outfits, or mexican dance outfits, or irish jig outfits. The priests taught the students all these OTHER cultural dances but denied them the right to their own Secwepemc dances or regalia. The students went on tour to different communities performing these foreign dances in foreign costumes and dancing to foreign music. So the museum is a legacy to the survival of their own identities and culture even after all of the past events. http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6637396204037343133&q=unrepentant&total=168&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 http://shuswapnation.org/photo_gallery.html http://secwepemc.org/adc/ptable.html http://web.uvic.ca/~stucraw/pitcook.html -example of a cooking pit

Two Warriors from the Native Youth Movement (NYM) recently completed a 20 stop speaking tour against the 2010 Winter Olympics planned to be held in unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver/Whistler, british columbia, klanada). They travelled through Mohawk, Annishinabe, Algonquin, Seneca, Cayuga, Penobscott, and Wampanoag Territories. They went to Sharbot Lake and heard of the Struggle against Uranuim Mining, to Tyenindega and heard of the Struggle against the continued invasion into their territory and occupation to close down a rock quarry, to Kanawake and heard about the european invasion surrounding their community, Akwesasne fighting Home Land Security invading their Territory trying to lock down the fake boarder that runs through their community and to Six Nations and there fight against illegal development on their land. They went to 11 major cities (so-called Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Peterborough, Ottawa, Portland, Boston, MA, Binghamton, NY Ithaca, NY, Guelph,) and various Native communities. NYM were Nation building, networking, and making alliances to Unite our Struggles for Land, Freedom and Life and Survival. Kanahus Pelkey of the Secwepemc/Ktnuxa Nation, and Dustin Johnson of the Ts'mksiyen Nation represented their respective Nations proudly and did the much needed groundwork to gather support against not only the 2010 Olympics but for the Native Liberation Movement in so called 'north amerikkka'. In the last week of the tour NYM members from the Mohawk and Annishinabe Nations joined their west coast comrades to spread the word and show that Warriorz are United East to West, North to South. The Native Youth Movement is part of the Zapatista's Other Campaign and are in full Alliance and Agreement with its Principles and Objectives, and just as our Zapatista brothers and sisters travelled the Land to Unite Native Nations, and supporters alike, we are doing the same in the North. Our Fight for life is the same, we must stop the destruction of Mother Earth, nothing can survive without Clean Air, Food, and Water. --- A photo report of their visit to Montreal, with background to the organizing against the 2010 Olympics is linked here: http://photos.cmaq.net/v/no2010/ An audio recording of Kanahus and Dustin's visit to Montreal, recorded by David Parker of the CKUT Community News Collective, is linked here: http://www.ncra.ca/business/admin_ncra/progex/programFiles/53/No_Olympics_final.mp3 A photo report from Kanahus' press conference in Guelph is linked here: http://resistanceisfertile.ca/tour Video of news coverage of the press conference in Guelph is available here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_MkY9MXHEw Links to numerous articles written about the tour: Native Youth Protest 2010 Olympics by Sam Bick http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6953 Native Groups Protest Olympics Held on Disputed Land by Stefan Christoff http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=13861 Community Garden by Sara Falconer http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=13904 Two British Columbia Aboriginals Say 2010 Olympics Will Not be All Fun and Games by Canadian Press http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwpN1E6HIQ7kKdukuNKfFA2vP03A Who holds the torch? 2010 and the anti-Olympics campaign in British Columbia by Evan Brockest http://trentarthur.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=390&Itemid=38 Natives group rebukes Olympic land-grab: 2010 paving way for extensive development on aboriginal land by Richard Tardif http://media.www.theconcordian.com/media/storage/paper290/news/2008/02/05/News/Natives.Group.Rebukes.Olympic.LandGrab-3189020.shtml

On Monday February 11, a press conference was held outside of the Royal Bank of Canada in Guelph, Ontario, to highlight the role of the RBC in making the 2010 olympics happen, and to let people know about resistance to the 2010 olympics. The gathering took place a few hours before Kanahus Pellkey, from the Secwepemc chapter of the Native Youth Movement, spoke to a crowd of about 80 people. It was frigid, about -15 celsius, but Kanahus and her baby, two youth from Six Nations and their baby, and a crowd of about 20 people gathered. The 2010 olympics are fraught with problems, yet these problems represent opportunities for people to unite in resistance. For more information see no2010.com, harrietspirit.blogspot.com, and 2010watch.com for more information.

Two Warriors from the Native Youth Movement (NYM) recently completed a 20 stop speaking tour against the 2010 Winter Olympics planned to be held in unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver/Whistler, british columbia, klanada). They travelled through Mohawk, Annishinabe, Algonquin, Seneca, Cayuga, Penobscott, and Wampanoag Territories. They went to Sharbot Lake and heard of the Struggle against Uranuim Mining, to Tyenindega and heard of the Struggle against the continued invasion into their territory and occupation to close down a rock quarry, to Kanawake and heard about the european invasion surrounding their community, Akwesasne fighting Home Land Security invading their Territory trying to lock down the fake boarder that runs through their community and to Six Nations and there fight against illegal development on their land. They went to 11 major cities (so-called Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Peterborough, Ottawa, Portland, Boston, MA, Binghamton, NY Ithaca, NY, Guelph,) and various Native communities. NYM were Nation building, networking, and making alliances to Unite our Struggles for Land, Freedom and Life and Survival. Kanahus Pelkey of the Secwepemc/Ktnuxa Nation, and Dustin Johnson of the Ts'mksiyen Nation represented their respective Nations proudly and did the much needed groundwork to gather support against not only the 2010 Olympics but for the Native Liberation Movement in so called 'north amerikkka'. In the last week of the tour NYM members from the Mohawk and Annishinabe Nations joined their west coast comrades to spread the word and show that Warriorz are United East to West, North to South. The Native Youth Movement is part of the Zapatista's Other Campaign and are in full Alliance and Agreement with its Principles and Objectives, and just as our Zapatista brothers and sisters travelled the Land to Unite Native Nations, and supporters alike, we are doing the same in the North. Our Fight for life is the same, we must stop the destruction of Mother Earth, nothing can survive without Clean Air, Food, and Water. --- A photo report of their visit to Montreal, with background to the organizing against the 2010 Olympics is linked here: http://photos.cmaq.net/v/no2010/ An audio recording of Kanahus and Dustin's visit to Montreal, recorded by David Parker of the CKUT Community News Collective, is linked here: http://www.ncra.ca/business/admin_ncra/progex/programFiles/53/No_Olympics_final.mp3 A photo report from Kanahus' press conference in Guelph is linked here: http://resistanceisfertile.ca/tour Video of news coverage of the press conference in Guelph is available here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_MkY9MXHEw Links to numerous articles written about the tour: Native Youth Protest 2010 Olympics by Sam Bick http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6953 Native Groups Protest Olympics Held on Disputed Land by Stefan Christoff http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=13861 Community Garden by Sara Falconer http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=13904 Two British Columbia Aboriginals Say 2010 Olympics Will Not be All Fun and Games by Canadian Press http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwpN1E6HIQ7kKdukuNKfFA2vP03A Who holds the torch? 2010 and the anti-Olympics campaign in British Columbia by Evan Brockest http://trentarthur.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=390&Itemid=38 Natives group rebukes Olympic land-grab: 2010 paving way for extensive development on aboriginal land by Richard Tardif http://media.www.theconcordian.com/media/storage/paper290/news/2008/02/05/News/Natives.Group.Rebukes.Olympic.LandGrab-3189020.shtml

Gustafsen Lake - Part 2 - September 21, 2004

Two Warriors from the Native Youth Movement (NYM) recently completed a 20 stop speaking tour against the 2010 Winter Olympics planned to be held in unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver/Whistler, british columbia, klanada). They travelled through Mohawk, Annishinabe, Algonquin, Seneca, Cayuga, Penobscott, and Wampanoag Territories. They went to Sharbot Lake and heard of the Struggle against Uranuim Mining, to Tyenindega and heard of the Struggle against the continued invasion into their territory and occupation to close down a rock quarry, to Kanawake and heard about the european invasion surrounding their community, Akwesasne fighting Home Land Security invading their Territory trying to lock down the fake boarder that runs through their community and to Six Nations and there fight against illegal development on their land. They went to 11 major cities (so-called Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Peterborough, Ottawa, Portland, Boston, MA, Binghamton, NY Ithaca, NY, Guelph,) and various Native communities. NYM were Nation building, networking, and making alliances to Unite our Struggles for Land, Freedom and Life and Survival. Kanahus Pelkey of the Secwepemc/Ktnuxa Nation, and Dustin Johnson of the Ts'mksiyen Nation represented their respective Nations proudly and did the much needed groundwork to gather support against not only the 2010 Olympics but for the Native Liberation Movement in so called 'north amerikkka'. In the last week of the tour NYM members from the Mohawk and Annishinabe Nations joined their west coast comrades to spread the word and show that Warriorz are United East to West, North to South. The Native Youth Movement is part of the Zapatista's Other Campaign and are in full Alliance and Agreement with its Principles and Objectives, and just as our Zapatista brothers and sisters travelled the Land to Unite Native Nations, and supporters alike, we are doing the same in the North. Our Fight for life is the same, we must stop the destruction of Mother Earth, nothing can survive without Clean Air, Food, and Water. --- A photo report of their visit to Montreal, with background to the organizing against the 2010 Olympics is linked here: http://photos.cmaq.net/v/no2010/ An audio recording of Kanahus and Dustin's visit to Montreal, recorded by David Parker of the CKUT Community News Collective, is linked here: http://www.ncra.ca/business/admin_ncra/progex/programFiles/53/No_Olympics_final.mp3 A photo report from Kanahus' press conference in Guelph is linked here: http://resistanceisfertile.ca/tour Video of news coverage of the press conference in Guelph is available here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_MkY9MXHEw Links to numerous articles written about the tour: Native Youth Protest 2010 Olympics by Sam Bick http://www.mcgilldaily.com/view.php?aid=6953 Native Groups Protest Olympics Held on Disputed Land by Stefan Christoff http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=13861 Community Garden by Sara Falconer http://www.ottawaxpress.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=13904 Two British Columbia Aboriginals Say 2010 Olympics Will Not be All Fun and Games by Canadian Press http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwpN1E6HIQ7kKdukuNKfFA2vP03A Who holds the torch? 2010 and the anti-Olympics campaign in British Columbia by Evan Brockest http://trentarthur.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=390&Itemid=38 Natives group rebukes Olympic land-grab: 2010 paving way for extensive development on aboriginal land by Richard Tardif http://media.www.theconcordian.com/media/storage/paper290/news/2008/02/05/News/Natives.Group.Rebukes.Olympic.LandGrab-3189020.shtml

A video I made in honor of our Mapuche friends from Chile visiting Canada. During their stay they were billeted with different families in town and on the Kamloops Indian Band with different families. They went to different cultural activities like traditional sweat lodges, Kamloopa Pow Wow,Hat Creek Ranch, train robbery trip, and even Merritt Mtn Music Festival. The video shows Shuswap & Mapuche Tribes in celebration of their cultures. Some fotos in Riverside Park, and Kamloopa Pow Wow in the Pow wow arbor where the dances are performed. Some pictures from the Grand Entry with Canadian,American,Chilean flags. Dances include:jingle dress dancers,traditional regalia,fancy shawl dancers. Pictures of one of the Mapuche traditional dances which they performed.Their music was with flutes and whistles while Shuswap Nations' music is with drums and singing. The Chilean students attended the Thompson Rivers University in a cultural exchange program. The last half has a north american drum group called Wild Spirit from Alberta 2:50 is where it starts. I included a spanish song with spanish lyrics and spanish opening, closing credits so that they will be able to understand- especially since i made it for them. Picture 1 is Elsa Maripan,Fred Seymour, Hector Marin Manquecoy. Elsa M is Mapuche from Temuco, Chile, she is wearing the Mapuche silver necklace.These necklaces are only worn by certain women, called Machi's-in their culture only women can be healers/spiritual leaders. (women are considered spiritually superior) She is also shown teaching us one of her recipes over at Brenda's house on KIB then we are sitting down to eat. Her husband worked with CONADI in Chile, Fred S.is one of KIB Councillors, Hector is a Mapuche leader from Villaricca where he manages a tourist site in Villaricca Chile, he teaches Mapuche ways and culture. He is involved in many diff things. He's also pictured on an E-Card promoting his culture in Chile. http://ecards.terramadre2006.org/pages/eng/terra_madre_ecard.lasso?e=TM2_1214 After he left Canada he emailed me from Italy where he was meeting the Italian president along with 150 other indigenous leaders from all over the world. Lorena Yere who is at the dinner table in the video-on the left works at a tourist site in Chile called the Tatio Geysers. (these geysers are at risk now because of CANADIAN INTERESTS going in and attempting to destroy them. They were all wonderful people, and impressive in all the work they did to build a positive environment for all people and the environment. Ariel (his english really improved -full of energy and a beautiful smile), Rafael (a wonderful sense of humor,he's sitting on the grass in front of the mural at Riverside Park), Fresia (a young sweet girl,Brenda became her "MUM"), Manuel(when he spoke in public he spoke from the heart), Francisco (just bawling out loud at the graduation ceremony at Sk'lep School) every one of them, Maritsa, Patricio, and all of them, they each had a special story. And i learned so much from them during their brief stay in Canada. I still keep in touch with them and my spirit stays with them in Chile. They all touched our lives and will always stay close to our hearts, indigenous tribes from North, Central and South America are one family in my mind. Thank you for coming to Canada. Muchisimas Gracias por vienen a Canada. Todos mis relaciones, con respeto, colleen.Saludos. All my relations, with respect, colleen. Kamloopa Pow wow is on the first weekend in August every year.