INDIGENOUS ACTION MOVEMENT Coast Salish Territory
Excellent blog by Kat Norris on First Nations Activism in my neck of the woods, British Columbia.
http://indigenousaction.blogspot.com/
Heartwretching pictures ofFirst Nations people being driven from their land, Khatsalano - which is now “yuppieville” - the posh neighbourhood of Kitsilano. Imagine what it would be like now if PreColonial ways had been embraced instead of squelched by the colonizers!
PHOTO OF CHIEF ANDREW AND HIS SON READYING TO LEAVE THEIR BELOVED KHATSALANO (RIGHT).
FIRST NATIONS OF THE KHATSALANO AREA .. BEING SHIPPED AWAY FROM THEIR HOMES. (LEFT BELOW)
(above) KITSILANO AFTER A FEW YEARS OF COLONIZATION (1920 or so)
(below) KITSILANO TODAY - WHERE DID THE SACREDNESS GO??
