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Indians See Halt To Clam Digging    A  B.C. fisheries regulation which prohibits shell fishing within 400 feet of a marina would stop the Tsawout Indian Band from collecting clams on its own shoreline, band manager Gus Underwood said today.    The government regulation sets 400 feet as the minimum shellfish closure area around a marina to guard against people collecting contaminated shellfish.    The 400-foot boundary would be the minimum imposed around the planned Saanichton Bay Marina and the closure would include some of the Tsawout Indian Band’s shoreline in the bay.    Del McCaw, a provincial fisheries inspector, said the 400-foot closure [...]

W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Forum: W̱SÁNEĆ Coming Together On April 11, 2024, leadership and Elders from the W̱SÁNEĆ communities gathered for a Leadership Forum (the Forum) to view presentations on strategic ways of working together to ensure a bright and prosperous future for the W̱SÁNEĆ community. The theme of the forum was “Planning for the Future of W̱SÁNEĆ,” and leadership from four W̱SÁNEĆ bands attended. The Forum – which provided a venue for presentations and conversations about nationhood, self-determination, and the reclamation of Indigenous rights and authorities – is a timely opportunity for the W̱SÁNEĆ to further the goals of working [...]

This time of year is traditionally known as ĆENQOLEW ĆENQOLEW NIȽ ŚW̱TUOs TÁĆEL TŦE QOLEW̱E TIÁ, ȽḴÁLJ. ȻȽ ENÁ, QENETES TŦE STOLU ŚW̱LÁEs SE Ȼs SÁȻES TŦE ḴELEXs. I U TUE EMNIEṈ TŦEN QEȽ W̱ILṈEW̱ṮELÁEṈ E TŦE SMÍEŦ I TŦE ṈIED. ŚELṈESTÁLs E TŦE ÁYET. NIȽ U HOI OL I ȽȻOUES TŦE QOLEW̱ȻE ENÁs JÁN U HOI OL ÍY S,ŚÁMENEȽ EN SU ÁLET TŦEN SKELOEṈ EN SȻÁ TW̱TIÁ, ĆENȾOȽEṈ. TES E TIÁ, SU YÁ’s TŦEN SĆÁLEĆE ȽEMEȾEṈ E TŦE ḰEMĆOLS LÁE EṮ PELḰȾÁEṈ. NIȽ LEPLIT ȽTE TŦE ŚNÁEM HO NI TŦE SQȺ U STÁṈ EN SU ḰÁNES TŦE [...]

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Noisy Children in Classroom Music to Teachers’ Ears BRENTWOOD, B.C. (CP) A steadily rising noise level was a measure of success for a four-week summer course for Indian children at Tsartlip school, near this community 15 miles north of Victoria.    The sound of voices was music to the ears of the three teachers and six teen-age volunteers working on the program, because the first day the children did not make a sound, one teacher said.    About 50 children participated in the program designed to accustom pre-schoolers, and some school-age children who have been doing poorly, to a classroom, to get [...]

Chief seeks new direction for Tsartlip Don Tom wants his First Nation to move away from ‘managing poverty’ and become more sustainable.    Growing up on the Tsartlip reserve in Brentwood Bay, Don Tom’s first audiences were his big family.  At one Christmas gathering, his father Chris Tom recalled, the youngest Tom boy stood on a chair and gave a particularly dramatic speech.    The years of theater camps, school plays and improv performances that followed might have been unusual for the trades-focused family, but they prepared Tom for his most important public role.    Tom, 31, was elected Chief of the Tsartlip [...]