Showing posts with label Okanagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Okanagan. Show all posts

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Langara Lecture Grand Chief Stuart Phillip

Grand Chief Stuart Phillip


Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/about/executive.htm#axzz4MeOXVAef

Reconciliation Must be More than Symbolic
http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/royalreconciliation

First Nations and Tribes Sign Treaty Joining Forces to Stop All Tarsands Pipelines
http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/tarsandstreaty

Treaty 8 Justice for Peace Tour
http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/t8justiceforthepeace

UBCIC Presentation to Kinder Morgan TMX Project Ministerial Panel
http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/tmxpanel




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Phillip

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is an Okanagan Aboriginal leader who has served as President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs since 1998. As Chief of the Penticton Indian Band in British Columbia from 1994 until 2008, as well as Chair of the Okanagan Nation Alliance, he has advocated for Aboriginal rights for the First Nations in that province and particularly in the Okanagan region.[1][2]

In 2002, Phillip drew media attention when he successfully forced a film project about the Aboriginal legend of the Ogopogo to be renamed Mee-Shee: The Water Giant. He did this by claiming that "It's an international concern among indigenous people about the exploitation of spiritual entities... for commercial purposes."[3]

On November 26, 2014, Phillip told delegates at the B.C. Federation of Labour convention that he would get arrested as a matter of principle to protest Kinder Morgan’s plans to expand the Trans Mountain pipeline.[4] The following day Phillip joined protesters at a Kinder Morgan borehole site on Burnaby Mountain, "We are making a very clear public statement that we do not support the Harper and Clark governments when it comes to resources," he said before his arrest.[5]

Related Links:
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/01/stop-site-c-david-suzuki-grand-chief.html
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/grand-chief-stewart-phillip-prepares-arrest-burnaby-mountain



Related Links:
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/grand-chief-stewart-phillip-prepares-arrest-burnaby-mountain?page=0,1

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun-UBC MOA Exhibit




We were really blessed and got to go see Lawrence Paul's exhibit at the MOA this summer.
Here's some of my photos.


Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded Territories

From the UBC MOA Exhibit
"Vancouver artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent, is showcased in this provocative exhibition of works that confront the colonialist suppression of First Nations peoples and the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights to lands, resources, and sovereignty."
http://moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/lawrence-paul/


 
Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016

Photography by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita © 2016


https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/05/artist-lawrence-paul-yuxweluptun.html








"That's what I like to do, is to think in existential ways to allow people to say, 'Yeah, we can change, we can make this a better world.' And that takes time."
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/creativity-that-challenges-the-status-quo-as-it-changes-the-landscape-1.3774044/coast-salish-artist-creates-surreal-images-of-colonialism-greed-pollution-1.3774963