Cultural Competency

TODAY IS NATIONAL RIBBON SKIRT DAY, acknowledging the contributions of Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people for the second year in a row.

INDIGENOUS-LED ORGANIZATIONS LOCATED IN CANADA may submit proposals to the Government of Canada’s Indigenous Partnership Fund for funding to support activities that contribute to implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).

NOVEMBER IS INDIGENOUS DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH (IDAM), recognized every year by hundreds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

ALTHOUGH CANADA POST RECENTLY ISSUED FOUR NEW STAMPS to draw attention to the legacy of residential schools, one of the schools depicted, the Île-à-la-Crosse Residential School at a historical Métis community in Saskatchewan. was not included in the 2015 settlement.

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, THE PUBLIC, NEIGHBOURS, ALLIES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE INVITED to funeral and memorial services for the missing Stó:lō and Indigenous children and unmarked graves and burials of students of the former St. Mary’s Residential School sites in Mission, BC.

CLEBC CONTRIBUTOR JEAN TEILLET HAS BEEN APPOINTED by Prime Minister Trudeau to the eight-person Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments.

RECENT WORKS BY INDIGENOUS AUTHORS are featured on “FVRL Picks” at the Fraser Valley Regional Library to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day 2023.

APTN will be broadcasting Indigenous Day Live across Turtle Island on June 17 from The Forks, located on Cree, Oji-Cree, Ojibwe, Dakota and Assiniboine land and the homeland of the Métis Nation (Winnipeg).

A LIMITED-EDITION ORANGE SHIRT in support of Fraser Valley residential school Survivors, designed by acclaimed Stó:lō artist Xémontélót Carrielynn Victor, is available for purchase while supplies last.

JANUARY 4, 2023 IS THE FIRST ANNUAL NATIONAL RIBBON SKIRT DAY in Canada.