The Province and Simpcw First Nation have signed a new decision-making agreement related to the proposed Yellowhead copper mine. It lays out a collaborative framework for aligning environmental assessments with an efficient, timely and consent-based approach.

Simpcw First Nation sign consent deal for proposed copper mine near Kamloops

Simpcw First Nation sign consent deal for proposed copper mine near Kamloops

British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Office has signed an agreement with the Simpcw First Nation on how a proposed open-pit copper mine will be assessed, including the requirement for the nation's consent for the project to proceed.

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Follow Joe Gilchrist of the Secwépemc Nation guided by the Thunderbird, a powerful being restoring balance through fire, in Joe and the Thunderbird: Teachings of Fire. 📖 A collaboration between Thunderbird Collective and FireSmart Canada. ➡️https://ow.ly/j88B50Zk0Rt

UBCIC say the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation took a "courageous step" to share what the union calls "commonly held truth among First Nations" that residential schools were responsible for the deaths of Indigenous children.

First Nations decry denialism on anniversary of suspected graves found at Kamloops

The UBCIC says the denialism associated with residential schools since the Kamloops announcement represents "racism and colonial violence."

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🧡🪶 Day of Reflection 🪶🧡- today marks 5 years since the #Secwépemc #215 announcement Indian Residential School Survivors Society: 1-800-721-0066 KUU-US Crisis Line: 1-800-588-8717 National Residential School 24-hour Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 Hope for Wellness: 1-855-242-3310

"UBCIC commends the rigorous First Nations-led investigations into former Residential School sites and the unwavering efforts to identify children taken by the Residential School System and to ensure they remain the focus of our collective memory.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/fifth_annive...

Fifth Anniversary of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Announcement: UBCIC Honours Residential School Survivors and Condemns Denialism

Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

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The KUU-US Crisis Line Society:
Crisis services for Indigenous Peoples in B.C. are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, toll-free throughout the Province at 1 800 588-8717.
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Today, Sacred Fires will be lit across BC to honour and remember the children that never came home from residential schools and Indian hospitals.

"The Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) is suing the governments of Alberta and Canada for the effects it says nearby industrial development and activity such as oilsands mines have had on its territory over the years." #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

First Nation sues federal, provincial governments over northern Alberta projects | CBC News

The Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) is suing the governments of Alberta and Canada over the impacts it says industrial development such as oilsands mines have had on its territory over the years.

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"What is growing is the comfort people have with sharing their denialism... we're seeing a lot of politicians giving permission to people to be racist" - Ted Gottfriedson #Indigenous #Racism #ResidentialSchools #ResidentialSchoolDenialism #Secwepemc

The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 3mo ago

One morning, Shay Paul opened Facebook and was shocked to see every group she was part of was awash in what she called residential school denialism. An investigation into the connections between academics and think tanks sowing doubt in historical truths. Emily Enns reports. #canpoli

Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be backing away from Ottawa’s commitment to ban open-net salmon farming in coastal B.C. in 2029. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. #canpoli

Feds Won’t Recommit to the BC Salmon Farm Ban | The Tyee

As lobbying intensifies, the Carney government is ‘considering how it can best move sustainable aquaculture forward.’

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Reposting as I see that I have some new followers & I slowly return to social media. I'm currently living in W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) & lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen; Songhees & Esquimalt) territories for medical care & to eventually finish my Master's program. My heart is always home in Secwépemcul'ecw.

MidniteRain is resting@midniterain.bsky.social · 2y ago

#reintroduction Weyt-kp xwexweytep, I'm a #Secwepemc woman (she/her) with interests in poetry, photography, ethnobotany, crafts & handiwork, #Indigenous Rights & critical #Indigeneity, biogeography, & toponymy, among other things. CoyoteDreams & CoyoteRain elsewhere, but I took my old name back.

Weytk-p xwexwéyt-tp, I've made a Secwépemc feed! bsky.app/profile/did:... It pulls everything tagged with #Secwépemc #Secwepemcúl'ecw #Secwépemctsín #Shuswap (and similar spellings)

How Residential School Students Became Victims of Nazi Race Science Torn from loved ones, Indigenous children suffered brutal medical injustices BY ELAINE DEWAR 6:30, Apr. 25, 2026 thewalrus.ca/how-resident...

How Residential School Students Became Victims of Nazi Race Science | The Walrus

Torn from loved ones, Indigenous children suffered brutal medical injustices

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Weekly Mutual Aid Thread 39 4/21/26 - 04/26/26 If you have a need please post it below, and don't forget to check out our subthreads! As always, questions and feedback are welcome. #MutualAid #TransSupportMA #DisabilitySupportMA #LGBTQIA+ArtistsMA

Here, have some orchids

Another racist tweet by my neighbour MLA tara armstrong. 😠 Aboriginal title is not a leftist invention. It’s constitutional law. Reconciliation is a commitment to justice. Calling for removal of constitutional rights based on race is racism.

"Blood & Soil" was adopted by the Nazi Party & subsequent neo-Nazi movements. It's a fundamental concept of Nazism. DARVOing Indigenous rights using Nazi ideology. To hear it spoken in the BC Legislature by an MLA is very, very bad.

It's Actually WAY More Than 62 Million Men....

Do you have racists in your family who think DRIPA or landback means Indigenous people are stealing white people's homes? Well good news the government has put together a handy easy to use website to explain why that's silly dripafacts.ca

"The Eby government is now in its sixth position on DRIPA in 2026." The BC NDP's commitment to shooting themselves in the foot on this completely unmatched. www.biv.com/news/comment... #bcpoli

Rob Shaw: Eby takes his sixth position on DRIPA after weekend backpedalling

B.C. premier has reversed course once again after the First Nations Leadership Council threatened legal action, protests

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B.C. to suspend Indigenous rights law, First Nations sources say

B.C. to suspend Indigenous rights law, First Nations sources say

First Nations sources say British Columbia Premier David Eby’s government will introduce legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act on Monday.

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Boosting the incredible resources on DRIPAfacts.ca! 📝 Share far and wide to combat coordinated misinformation campaigns. DRIPA is the path forward for human rights in BC. Send this to your family, co-workers and friends so we can collectively defend this critical legislation in the coming months.

I kept getting targeted ads from a self-defense business for women to pay men to learn to defend themselves from men, right after the 62 million views thing came out. I commented that they should charge men to learn how not to be r@pists & use that $ to fund free self-defense classes for women. 1/

These reports should always include a reminder that Mark Carney's father was first a principal, later a regional administrator, for Canada's residential schools. PM Carney sat with his father every breakfast and supper. What values do people think that his father imparted on the current PM?

Amnesty International concerned Canada 'rolling back' support for Indigenous rights | CBC News

Amnesty International is concerned Canada is backsliding on Indigenous rights under Prime Minister Mark Carney. The organization warns in its annual global human rights report that new laws passed las...

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The #Sinixt are not a "foreign Indian Band." An invisible border that was only settled 180 years ago doesn't suddenly make a People that are #Indigenous to the land somehow "foreign" & no longer Indigenous. They didn't stop existing the moment Canada declared them "extinct," either.

I worked in the garden all day today, prepping garden beds. It has been an unusually cool spring here, with a few very late frosts (for this climate), so I've been holding off jumping into getting the garden ready. It was so nice to work outside, even if I pushed myself a little too hard. 🌱🤲🏼💚

In March, attendees of a Salish Fire Keepers Society gathered in Kamloops, B.C. (Tk’emlúps) to learn about decolonizing fire management, how to work with blazes to protect the land, and more.

#TRU #WilliamsLake #Secwépemc #CeciliaDeRose #InMemoriam Thompson Rivers University acknowledges the passing of Secwépemc knowledge keeper - Kye7e Cecilia Dick DeRose For more info: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lq8...

📘 New Knowledge Highlight: Dylan Hillis, UVic This case study explores First Nations’ visions of food sovereignty amid sea otter recovery and climate change, drawing on archaeological and ecological evidence alongside Indigenous knowledge. Read more: climatesolutions.ca/knowledge-hi...

(Re)storying Relationships Between Humans, k̓ʷak̓aƛ (Sea Otters) & Shellfish to Support Nuu-chah-nulth Food Sovereignty | Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

This case study explores First Nations’ visions of food sovereignty in the context of sea otter recovery and climate change.

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