Sep
29
2023
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This post contains information about residential schools. For helplines and support, scroll to the end.
Tomorrow is the national Day of Truth and Reconciliation, but our solidarity with Indigenous movements should not stop when we change out...
Sep
29
2023
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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...
Sep
26
2023
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This Saturday is Orange Shirt Day, a day to mourn the suffering inflicted on Indigenous children in Residential Schools. In May 2021, 215...
Jul
26
2023
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...
Jul
06
2023
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...
Apr
06
2023
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...
Jul
15
2022
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),...
Apr
20
2022
This story is shared with us by Maysa and Ancel of Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House.
Last December, our Monday English Conversation Club participants had 2 sessions learning about Indigenous history and culture from Jessie Seegerts, a women of Dene-Cree First...