Category: Decolonization

* Content warning * This post contains information about residential schools.Honouring Orange Shirt Day: A Journey of Unlearning and Reflection Monday, September 30th is Orange Shirt Day (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation). Throughout September neighbourhood houses and communities come...

* Content warning *This post contains information about residential schools. For helplines and support, scroll to the end. When Phyllis Webstad was six years old, her grandmother gave her a shiny, new orange shirt. She wore it proudly on her...

* Content warning* This post contains information about residential schools. For helplines and support, scroll to the end. This Saturday is Orange Shirt Day, a day to mourn the suffering inflicted on Indigenous children in Residential Schools. In May 2021, 215...

Gordon Neighbourhood House (GNH) is tucked away in the community now known as the West End of Vancouver, up from the shores of Yulkshun (Squamish place name for English Bay) and walking distance from X̱wáy̓x̱way (Squamish Village in Stanley...

Aaniin, boozhoo, indinawemaaganidook. Natasha Meryl Miskwaa Dibik Giizis nindizhnikaaz. Mikinak nindodem. Michi Saagiig nindoonjiibaa. Hello, all my relatives. My name is Natasha Meryl Miskwaa Dibik Giizis. Turtle is my totem. Michi Saagig is where I am from. My role within ANHBC...

Belonging in Unceded Territory is a project that deeply explores and questions our situation as uninvited guests on the unceded and stolen territories of the Coast Salish peoples. It asks us how we reconcile the fact that we are...

Our next story from our Summer Series comes from Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House, and is shared by Norm Leech. Neighbourhood houses across the Lower Mainland have the honour of deep and ongoing relationships with Norm Leech (T’it’q’et, St’at’imc Nation),...