The Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre shared this, in the lead-up to Valentine's Day, but we figured, it's never too late to know the word for love. (It's not as though we only need to practice love one day a year...)
Category: Word of the Week
Event: Halloween Double Feature, grades 8-12, Oct 27
The lowdown on the upcoming Wellness Gathering, October 25
Getting excited? That's perfectly understandable...
Word of the Week: K’ul’tsam
In UCWALMÍCWTS, the language of the Lil'wat Nation, this word means only taking what food is needed. In this article in Mountain Life magazine, Johnny Jones explains that this means taking from the land only what was needed to survive. "Locavore" was declared the word of the year in 2007 in the Oxford American Dictionary … Continue reading Word of the Week: K’ul’tsam
Word of the Week: Ucwalmicwts
CUYSTWÍ MALH UCWALMÍCWTS - Let's all go speak our Language! My 2 and 4 year old friends are learning Ucwalmicts at day-care. Ucwalmicts is the first language of the Lil’wat, and other Interior Salish people. Linguists, working together with Lil’wat, created a writing system with which the Lil’wat community is recording and teaching its language … Continue reading Word of the Week: Ucwalmicwts
Word of the week: séxem
Sunflower: séxem Listen to the pronunciation of séxem, here. (From the Lil'wat Community First Voices portal.)
Word of the Week: Kalan Wi
Hey! Listen up! Kalan Wi! Today is National Aboriginal Day. The Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre has activities all day long, including an artisan market, outdoor BBQ and children's crafts and scavenger hunts. They will also feature a performance from local Mt Currie/Pemberton band, Kalan Wi, who the Province called "more local than global" but with a … Continue reading Word of the Week: Kalan Wi
Word of the Week – iqwelq̓wel
It's June. The month of ripening. In Ucwalmicwts, the language of the Lil'wat, the word for June is:
Word of the week: “Empathy.”
"If we're going to find our way back to each other, we have to know and understand empathy, because empathy is the antidote to shame. If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in a Petri … Continue reading Word of the week: “Empathy.”
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