#Tsleil-Waututh Nation

[allthecanadianpolitics]

New research confirms that Tsleil-Waututh Nation has consistently and sustainably fished for chum salmon for 1,200 years longer than the archaeological record had previously demonstrated.

This supports Tsleil-Waututh knowledge and further demonstrates that Tsleil-Waututh people have been sustainably living on and stewarding their traditional territory for longer than Western science may recognize.

Researchers from Tsleil-Waututh Nation and UBC analyzed 245 salmon bones gathered as part of an archaeological dig in the 1960s and 1970s from təmtəmíxʷtən, a large and important site for the Nation located near what many British Columbians now know as Belcarra.

The research builds on a previous study which showed that the Nation sustainably and preferentially fished for chum salmon for 1,300 years, from about 400 BC to 1200.

Using carbon dating on eight new samples, the researchers extended this period of time a further 1,200 years, confirming Tsleil-Waututh ancestors fished for salmon from about 850 BC to 1650. [...]

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#cdnpoli #flora & fauna #canadian history #təmtəmíxʷtən #Tsleil-Waututh Nation #British Columbia #conservation #sustainability #Indigenous

[odera]

Hi tumblr! I figured I would reintroduce myself here, since I have decided tumblr is simply my favorite place to share online *still* to this day.

My name is Odera and I am a painter and illustrator! The main places you can find me are here, my side blog @burritobowlofthepelvis, my website, and @ oderaigbokwe on IG. I'm physically located on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations (aka known as Vancouver Canada).

Alot of my work centers the magic of the African diaspora and the Black Queer Imagination. The foundational years of my career were complimentary to Black speculative works, Afrofuturism, and Fantasy as a gateway to healing. This has since grown to explore the spirit based, ancestral work of the diaspora, and most recently I have been combining it all and trying to find that magic in the physical, daily, embodied things.

My side blog is @burritobowlofthepelvis which I am slowly but surely reorganizing. This blog is filled with reblogs for inspiration, potential reference images, more casual glimpses of my life, selfies, and outfits of the day. (Some of the reblogs are NSFW, so minors DNI there). Ultimately I am trying to use that blog as a combination journal/resource for my sketchbook.

Below are some of my favorite paintings and illustrations over the years that give an idea of the kinds of things I am exploring or have done throughout my career.

The Spirit Child. 2022. Oils on board. This painting is the centerpiece of my series of Tarot/Oracle/Afrodiasporic Divination paintings. The series is slowly but surely coming together, and once I get to the minor arcana I am excited to make some stylistic shifts that not only match the messaging but are also much faster to make.

Selections from my solo exhibition 'New Yam Festival'. These paintings are all big, juicy, vibrant, improvisational, and embody the playfulness, pleasure, and joy of the Black Queer imagination! Up until that point I was working mostly at a smaller scale (anywhere from 8x10 to 20x30 inches). So it was fun to size up to 6-8 feet for each of these!

Above are some of my favorite commercial illustrations for book covers and comics. Covers are their own particular fun design challenge, but of all the illustration assignments they can feel the most fulfilling to me.

And something classic from the archive: Odera Redesigns the cast of Sailor Moon.

I can't believe most of those were created almost 10 years ago. But that's where we are, and it feels good to still want to use this platform despite how much the world is changing.

Feel free to reblog, like, comment, or ask me any questions you have!

#Odera #Odera Igbokwe #artists on tumblr #black artist #queer artists

[entheognosis]

Chief Dan George was actually a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in British Columbia, Canada from 1951 to 1963. Also an author and poet, George achieved his first acting job at the age of 60, appearing in the Canadian TV show, Caribou Country. But George’s acting career didn’t peak until 1970 when he starred in Little Big Man, a role for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Another great role for George was the part of Lone Watie in The Outlaw Josie Wales (1976). George also appeared on TV shows such as Kung Fu. During George’s writing career, he was credited with fostering understanding between non-native and Native Americans, particularly with the release of his book, My Heart Soars.

#indigenous people

[supersonicart]

Hanna Lee Joshi's "What Is It You Seek?"

Currently on view at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Hanna Lee Joshi's solo exhibition, "What Is It You Seek?"

Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist who is residing in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to universal identity. The vibrant faceless figurative works evoke an ethereal goddess, luminous and full of wonder and yet also deeply human. Drawing from her own lived experience, her work offers a glimpse into synesthetic realms that chart a journey through the inner landscape. With this show the artist is asking “what is it you seek?” as a question that arises within. At the same time the figures depicted evoke mystical beings asking the same of the viewers as if granting a boon or wish.

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#art #painting #illustration #thinkspace projects #hanna lee joshi

[placethatechoes]

"May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong." - Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation

photography by Chris Lindhout

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#nature #light #tumblr photographers

[bossymarmalade]

(I acknowledge that I live on the unceded territory of the šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Stz’uminus and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations)

“The Survivors’ Flag is an expression of remembrance, meant to honour residential school Survivors and all the lives and communities impacted by the residential school system in Canada. Each element depicted on the flag was carefully selected by Survivors from across Canada, who were consulted in the flag’s creation.“ - the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

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#chromatic voice #first nations #national day for truth and reconciliation #coast salish #turtle island #missing and murdered indigenous women #mmiwg #canadian content #orange shirt day #every child matters #residential schools

[piizunn]

it hides in the light by Dion Smith-Dokkie

The Bows, April 5th - June 22nd, 2024

it hides in the light presents a new body of experimental mixed-media works by artist Dion Smith-Dokkie that attend to embodiment, interface, information, and infrastructure.

Inkjet-printed stills taken from video works, satellite images of bodies of water, images of daily life, and select found images are broken down into ‘particles’. Using water, the particles are transferred onto paper, creating a collage. In this process, the images are liquefied and lose their discernibility: they synthesize and coalesce. The resulting compositions are further developed with watercolor, gouache, and ink.

The result is an indistinct, luminous work that straddles the line between non-representation and concrete location, videographic and painterly modes. The formal and conceptual tools utilized—mediation and translation via contact, transfer, diffusion, and mutation—become tactics of deliberately sensual and nebulous erotic self-representation. They extrapolate a diffused and empathic praxis of embodiment, self-location, and co-relation.

Dion Smith-Dokkie (he, they) resides uninvited on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh homelands and territories. He was born in Fort St. John and grew up in the Peace River region of northeast BC and northwest Alberta. Dion locates themselves as a gay, mixed-race European-Indigenous man who lives with mental illness. He is a member of West Moberly First Nations, a Treaty 8 First Nation. They hold a BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Victoria (2015), a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University (2019), and an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia (2021).

(Photos belong to me and the description and bio are courtesy The Bows’ website)

#i neeeeeeed to go back and see this again #contemporary art #indigenous art #fine art #inkjet #printing #sculpture #curation #my picks #< new tag for the art of others that i post #idk calling myself a curator feels to formal for this but i have curated exhibitions in the past #treaty 7 #treaty 8 #art #art gallery #artist run centre #visual art #traditional art #queer art #gay #artists #cree #dunne-za

[cedar-glade]

  Trentepohlia umbrina, high up in the Mt. airy valley black walnut, Cincinnati, Ohio.

I see three pretty common lichens on this tree but I was not actually trying to photograph any of these despite getting some good shots of one Lecanora hybocarpa complex lichen. aka bumpy rim lichen. Which I actually wanted to use as scale for the size of what I really wanted to take pics of.

Instead I was trying to photograph this beautiful red streak because I feel like often it is over looked and under appreciated from a botanical and mycological perspective, often even assumed to be part of woody material on red oaks as cork or lenticil tissue.

There is a niche group of semi complex crack species and exposed surface species of filimentous algae, actinomycetes, and cyanobacteria that make up a good portion of tree bark biota that we don’t often get taught about despite many of them being directly associated as a functional group(photobiont) of many lichen species. In this case, subaerial algae is the noted or deamed group type, this one on Black Walnut bark high up in the canopy is a filimentous chlorophyte...

 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Examples-of-subaerial-habitats-and-algae-on-and-in-plants-A-Thin-film-of-green-algae_fig15_280577788

specifically the carotenoid rich Trentepohlia spp., Most species of Trentepohlia species are generalistic, even pollip clustering or forming long elongated hairs that are free standing and grow on rocks and trees freely depending on moisture and mineral contents. Some are directly associated with parasitism or within’ lichen as a mutualist coevolved as photobiont. 

Most species are pretty dang hard to Identify, resulting in utilizing microscopy or sequencing in order to resolve a taxa delineation.

Here, pictured above, is a very small species of bark dwelling caespitose (mat forming) relatively as prostrate as possible( growing non erect and almost adhering to the surface.) The good ol’ fashion algae is easy to get a sample of and put under a scope free floating in water, once done look at the filimentous grouping, linear psuedoseptae with elongated cells in conjunction with the roles of plasmodesmata for cytoplasmic streaming is not what I saw, instead I got adjacent rounded blobs forming the filamentous line with most of the pigment filing the cells. So matted dark red tree balls is what I viewed, Trentepohilia umbrina. The interesting thing is that this species is very small and while preferring exposure/barren niche like many Trentepohilia spp. do; we see this species in shaded cracks and crevices more than in zones of full exposure. Hence why umbrina may have been selected as epithet. ( within the shadows)

The most common species and easiest to ID are:

Trentepohlia abietina ( a small polip cluster forming tree only species) often associated with elongated cell structure. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/44841106)

Trentepohlia aurea Orange rock hair (the only species with an english common name that I am aware of) most of the other species only seem to have dutch, norwegian , russian, siberian, or native american first nation (inuit, metis, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh) names. This species is huge and easy to see the hairy polip clusters.

Trentepohlia jolithus , a true nordic and beringian species limited to high volcanic regions in the northern hemisphere and very bright and prostrate forming dense mats on rocks appearing as a film

  Trentepohlia umbrina , or as I call it, matted on bark dark red tree balls clustered as a filamentous line, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/410587-Trentepohlia-umbrina/browse_photos  This is what you see under obs scope, If you

Other common species but with no accessibility as far as ID delineation are these:

Trentepohlia flava , a coastal salt mist generalist species often found along the western coast of North America on rocks but also commonly found in europe near sea side areas in the north, while this doesn’t fully explain it’s locality niche or fix any range maps because we really don’t know if it has a cosmopolitain range or not and already a var. complex has formed along with range divisions.

https://www.proquest.com/openview/7f3a8e73a75fb8212470443aa189452c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=37953.

The rest of these species in the genus are very inaccessible without ITIS or a lab to access.

#Trentepohlia umbrina #trentepohlia #botany #plantblr #mycology #lichenology #dendrology #physiology #algae #kawaii #lichen #lecanora #lecanora hybocarpa #umbrina #red stuff on my tree #ohio #juglans nigra #juglans

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys."

Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation

#book quotes #native american #Native American quotes #nature #nature writing #nature quotes #reciprocity #natural balance

[machine-saint]

On Vancouver’s west side, the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—through a joint partnership called MST Development Corp.—are planning a 12-tower development called the Heather Lands. In 2022, city councillor Colleen Hardwick said of that project, “How do you reconcile Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises?” (Hardwick, it goes without saying, is not Indigenous.)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Vancouver Westside has traditionally been a low-density residential area, but that will no longer be the case, with the Jericho Lands development introducing high-rise residential towers to create a new high-density node near the western edge of Vancouver.

After hearing today from roughly 60 public speakers, with the vast majority being local residents in opposition, Vancouver City Council unanimously approved the policy statement for the Jericho Lands this afternoon.

The passing of the policy statement stage is the first major regulatory hurdle of the long-term development project to transform the 90-acre former military installation immediately south of Jericho Beach Park in the West Point Grey neighbourhood.

This is an Indigenous-owned and spearheaded project, with MST Development Corporation — the private for-profit real estate development company wholly owned by the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations — partnering with federal crown corporation Canada Lands Company (CLC) on the acquisition of the parcels that make up the site about a decade ago. [...]

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#cdnpoli #Indigenous politics #Musqueam Nation #Squamish Nation #Tsleil-Waututh Nation #Vancouver #British Columbia

[hedgewitchgarden]

 1- May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears.

2- One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.

3- The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

4- Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.

5- If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

6- Where no one intrudes, many can live in harmony.

7- There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.

8- Of all the teachings we receive, this one is most important: Nothing belongs to you of what there is, of what you take, you must share.

9- We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

10- First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

11- The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

12- The heart never knows the colour of the skin

13- If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

14- My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

15- Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.

16- The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

17- Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

18- If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.

19- We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive. 

#indigenous wisdom

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

SAVE THE DATE // Put it in your calendar because this weekend Thinkspace Projects welcomes you to all new glorious exhibitions including "What Is It You Seek?’ from @hannaleejoshi - opening Saturday, December 3 with a reception from 6-10pm in gallery II.

"Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist who is residing in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to universal identity. The vibrant faceless figurative works evoke an ethereal goddess, luminous and full of wonder and yet also deeply human. Drawing from her own lived experience, her work offers a glimpse into synesthetic realms that chart a journey through the inner landscape. With this show the artist is asking “what is it you seek?” as a question that arises within. At the same time the figures depicted evoke mystical beings asking the same of the viewers as if granting a boon or wish."

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#beautifulbizarre #hannaleejoshi #workonpaper #surrealism #contemporaryarts

[mashkiki-weeds]

Thank you to the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish nations; for being the first protectors of the land I inhabit and for hosting me on their unceded land.

I love prostrate knotweed, or "pigweed," as my grandma Bernie used to call it. This plant is a hardscrabble, grow-anywhere, multi-use, edible beauty that flourishes in sidewalk cracks. Back in my landscaping days, we would be required to remove this from the pavement in front of buildings we maintained, and the root system of this bad boy will bring chunks of concrete with it when pulled. It does more than its fair share of work in the green reclamation of urban spaces.

Knotweed is an invasive plant that was brought over from Europe. It's considered a blight on turf lawns, as it can and will grow just about anywhere. It prefers compacted soil and lots of sun, so thrives in those mossy cracks in the sidewalk.

As for the knotweed found growing in sidewalks... it is edible, but I would caution against eating or using for medicine anything that is growing near sources of contamination. Look for knotweed on boulevards and in parks if you want to add a crunchy treat to your salads.

Knotweed is an amazingly useful medicine that can be administered in many forms.

It has vasoconstrictive properties that makes it good for many blood-y issues that arise in our spongy little bodies. The juice, when extracted, is excellent for promoting scabbing on small wounds, and can be squirted up the nose to quell a bloody nose.

A tea made from knotweed can help with bleeding gums caused by gingivitis. Boil it up, let it cool, and swish for a couple minutes. I've heard of people using it with mint or other very fragrant herbs for mouthwash- something to try, I suppose, but like any medicine... overuse could be bad. I honestly don't know if I would recommend that one.

Knotweed falls into the expectorant plant category (have you noticed that almost every plant either helps you cough up the bad stuff or soothes and prevents coughing? Every time I'm researching a new plant I assume it's going to do one of those two things.) so the juice of the plant when ingested will help with colds.

However, if you're treating someone with the flu or any illness that causes fever, I would suggest steering away from knotweed. It helps to reduce sweating, which is an important part of healing.

This particular patch of knotweed was outside a restaurant I ate at. Their burritos were good... but could have benefited from some pigweed crunch.

#plant medicine #urban foraging #foraging #unceded land #not canadian #weeds #sidewalk plants #i fucking hate hashtags

[apollo-cackling]

side note, there was a land acknowledgement at an event I was at that went something like "before we begin, we formally recognise that [location the event was at] rests on the unceded territories of the Sto:lo, Tsleil-Waututh, Kwantlen* nations. We thank them for sharing their land with us"

and I swear to god I didn't know whether to laugh incredulously or to roll my eyes into the back of my head

#my rambles #like yea basically all land acknowledgements are performative but my *god* how hard is it to not say something *this* asinine #canada #*not the exact nations mentioned I didn't want to doxx myself

[rheallsim]

In addition to it being Pride Month, it's also National Indigenous History Month here in Canada.

I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that I am posting from the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. I am a guest on this land. I strive to spend my time here honouring the people who have lived on this land since time immemorial, as well as doing my best to treat this land with respect and love so it will continue to house and nourish future generations. I hope to listen and learn from the wisdom and ancestral knowledge the First Nations share with us, support them in their fight for land rights and recognition, and do the work within myself that is necessary for continued reconciliation.

Lots of love to Indigenous peoples all over the world, everywhere you are. 💗

#National Indigenous History Month #Every Child Matters #Land Back #Indigenous Rights #Please don't reblog #This is a very personal statement from me #I wish we could state whether we allowed reblogs or not! #Take care everyone #<3