#NuuchaNulth #Tseshaht #Hupacasath leaders in Port Alberni were instrumental in the rights movement in Canada.
"Eneas said at the time he was on the phone regularly with his friend George Watts… They wanted to see if the RCMP would show up for this fake protest at a bridge in Port Alberni, B.C […]
A large rhododendron stretches to the blue sky!
We’ll be putting out a #SocialBC email and announcement next week for exciting plans to come! Look for it in your inbox, on the Announcements on the front page and I’ll post it as a thread as well.
Stay tuned and have a wonderful first weekend of spring! […]
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And in case you think Canada is perfect, racism, and nazism lives on here too. Including today in my town.
But the community is stronger than the assholes who paint swastikas or racist words on a bridge.
#Canada #PortAlberni #FirstNations #Tseshaht #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Racism #Nazis
:TseshahtFN […]
"In a joint statement, the #Tseshaht First Nation and the City of #PortAlberni said they are “disgusted with the recent racist vandalism of ‘Every Child Matters’ barricade located at the ‘Orange Bridge’.”" #residentialschools #VancouverIsland #BC #BritishColumbia www.hashilthsa.com/news/2026-01...
A view over a parking lot shows mostly clear blue sky, with wisps of cloud, highlighted, yellow, and orange by the setting sun. The sun is in the middle, just barely above. It's the ridge line. To the right of the sun is a plume of smoke and steam
Today's sunset over Arbutus Ridge in #portalberni #nuuchanulth #tseshaht :TseshahtFN:
#Hupacasath :hupacasath:
Only 20 or so more days of it moving down the ridge line....
(the plume is mostly steam from the paper mill)
#sunset #today #winter
On the front lines of fire
This Tseshaht wildfire fighter is continuing a long tradition of Indigenous protection of the land #Tseshaht #wildfires #Indigenous
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“Watts said there is still racism in the Alberni Valley, but seeing how many people gathered today help him know that the people with bad intentions are the vast minority.
"Port Alberni's a place with a heart and this is an event that really showed that today.””
🧡🧡
#TruthandReconciliationDay […]
A large group of people are seen, almost all wearing orange shirts, in a large parking lot. A circle of young and old men drum and sing. Visible in the picture are the Wawmeesh Ken Watts elected chief of Tseshaht, (second from left with cedar headband), Brandy Lauder elected chief of Hupacasath (bottom right closest to camera, black jacket), Gord Johns MP for Courtenay Alberni (balding grey hair beside Lauder), and Mayor Sharie Minions of Port Alberni (dark straight hair beside Gord Johns).
If you don't have Hashilthsa in your regular list of news sites to paruse, you should. It's the oldest indigenous-led news source in Canada.
Here's another great article, this one about yesterday’s march to mark #truthandreconciliationday. Tseshaht and […]
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check that. I think there may have actually been over 1000 people walking. They are still coming into the hall and they stretch all the way down road still
Final post a song #portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
"WE ALL"
"MATTER!!"
#portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
a line stretching down a long wide street
stretching all the way down the hill! #portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
many people
we are stopped momentarily a time to gather
a few hundred strong 💪 #portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
A line of people in orange shirts crosses a bridge
Orange shirtswalk
walking in the crowd now
marching wlong the road
here they come!
here we are! orange heart 🧡
#portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
I see is swimming in the middle of the river channel. The flow of the water is against him so he's creating quite awake even though he's not actually moving lol
a bald eagle 🦅 flies I in the sky against the gray clouds
A black raven sits at the top of a fir tree looking toward us
The archers are almost here.
Lots of birds around. A seagull making more awake than he should lol. A bald eagle. And a Raven watching us from across the river
#portalberni #ReconciliationDay #EveryChildMatters #tseshaht #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
enjoying the rivers edge while we wait for the march. It started up river about 2km from here at the former site of the Alberni Indian Residential School.
The area across the Somass/Tsu'amaas River is a large estuary. Huge salmon habitat (chinook, coho, sockeye) […]
[Original post on socialbc.ca]
Looking out along Victoria Quay in Port Alberni over the Somass River. There are often bears on the other side, especially this time of year, looking for salmon. There is a res paved stone walkway with grass at the edge and some park benches. A small statue of a bear stands atop a plinth with 100 Port Alberni. For the centennary in 2015.
The sculptures are welcoming people into #Hupacasath territory from land and sea. One is a man looking toward us and land and one a woman toward the sea just behind.
The Whaling sculpture is of :TseshahtFN: hunters. Their territory extends down the Alberni Inlet while Hupacasath is in the Valley. there is a figure holding a large harpoon at the head of the canoe while other figures paddle behind. The whole thing is carved from a large douglas fir log
The flag for hupacasath flies atop a pole near the welcoming statues in a small park
Walked from my house to about the halfway point of the full march waiting for them to arrive. This is Victoria Quay, the Welcoming Figures and the Whaling Sculpture.
These are at the foot of Johnston Road / Highway 4 in #portalberni at the Tsu'amaas (Somass) […]
[Original post on socialbc.ca]
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off to join the #ReconciliationDay march
wearing my #EveryChildMatters orange shirt and my cedar headband. And carrying the kids headbands in their absence. it's a perfect morning for a walk. Partly cloudy just a little cool in the air
:TseshahtFN: #tseshaht :hupacasath: #Hupacasath #nuuchanulth
The Federal NDP are on Vancouver Island strategizing for the upcoming Parliament.
Interim leader Davies:
""There's an ebb and flow to politics and I view it as an opportunity for our party to regenerate, to reimagine what a bold, progressive NDP looks like on the federal scene.””
I loved Jack […]
www.fiveacreshaker.ca Five Acre Shaker August 9, 2025 Port Alberni, BC at Alberni District Fall Fair Grounds #fiveacreshaker #portalberni #britishcolumbia #musicsky #Musiciansky #musicfestival #bcmusic #canada #tseshaht #hupacasath #livemusic #familyfriendly
Today in #Tseshaht :TseshahtFN: #Hupacasath :hupacasath:
Saw čims (Black Bear) today! He was pretty scared of the busy road. Smart bear! Didn't get a good photo, and only mediocre video, but here you go :) 🐻
(this was near the Visitors Centre near the #BCHwy4 junction in #PortAlberni)
"Art Thompson, a member of the #Ditidaht #FirstNation, was sent to live at the Alberni Indian Residential School on #Tseshaht ...territory in #PortAlberni at the age of five..." #trauma #abuse #VancouverIsland #BC #Canada #FirstNations #Indigenous www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/horrors...
"As part of its long tradition of hosting [ball hockey] on the #Tseshaht reserve, Maht Mahs took in 14 teams for 3 days...all in honour of those lost due to drug use, a phenomenon that has become disturbingly widespread amongst #FirstNation communities" #BC #Canada www.hashilthsa.com/news/2025-02...
A Vancouver Island and First Nations focused look on what's in store for the BC Forestry sector as the new Eby government Ministers get their mandate letters and Trump takes office.
:TseshahtFN:
:huuayaht:
#BCPoli #BCForestry #Canada #Export #FirstNations #Tseshaht #PortAlberni #Huuayaht […]
[Warning: Indian Residential Schools — Suicide — But I challenge my non-Indigenous friends especially to click through and read this powerful article.]
A story with stories that we should read. There is hope and healing at the end.
#PortAlberni #AIRS #Tseshaht #Indigenous #CanPoli #CdnPoli […]
#Tseshaht #PortAlberni Rugby Olympian heads to UBC to further her studies and athletic career.
#ParisOlympics
www.hashilthsa.com/news/2024-09-06/olympic-...
