Mhairi Marcella took this shot on October 2 as proof that fall might have gone AWOL and let winter play substitute. If this image strikes you as much as it strikes me, you'll be happy to hear that Mhairi has agreed to take up our invitation to guestagram for us for the week starting 7 … Continue reading Snowline creeping down Ts’zil is our barometer of the changing seasons. Photo by Mhairi Marcella
I recently revisited this photo, taken by Johnny Jones. I'd spent two days reading the Information note from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, about the updated potential for a big rockfall from Mt Currie. Johnny posted, "For 11 Thousand + years the Lil'wat Nation lived here in the Lil'wat7ul Valley and … Continue reading In its earliest name, Mt Currie means “slides on the mountain”
I love Johnny Jones' facebook page for inspiration. His work takes him all over Lil'wat territory, and when he posts things like the photo above, with the spare caption: "medicine man with pipe and the lightning for his power, as the people do the bear dance above him", some little section of my brain lights … Continue reading What evidence of Lil’wat’s deep history in this territory means to me
I read two incredible longform articles this year that both referenced the renewed appreciation scientists have for the oral stories for First Nations - the way those long-ago stories are checking out in the geological record, providing clues and adding evidence to theories about massive events that we don't have computer records of. Check them … Continue reading Breaking News: Carbon dating establishes Lil’wat settlement to be 5500 years old
Johnny Jones has shared a host of stories with us on the Wellness Almanac, so this Tea & Talk on Thursday at the Lands & Resources Office looks well worth stopping in for.
Well, there's snow up in the hills now, but hunting season is still fresh in the memories of those who attempt a self-sufficient lifestyle. Johnny Jones, Lil’wat Cultural Technician, shared this photo one of 5 hunting blinds up by below Goat Mountain and Tenquille Mountain. It is a old time hunting ground of the … Continue reading Walking the Territory with Johnny Jones: Lil’wat Hunting Blind
Johnny Jones, Lil'wat Cultural Technician, explains this pictograph of Grizzly Twins and the Window in the Stars - a painting located on the hill-top going up to Xitolacw, the new site of Mt Currie's IR #6. It's a picture of stars you can only see at night time. Our people would got fast in the … Continue reading Walking the territory with Johnny Jones: Grizzly Twins pictograph
Last month, Lil'wat Cultural Technician, Johnny Jones, told us the story behind a photo of a 7000 year old leafpoint found in Lil'wat territory by a burial ground. This week, we asked him to tell us the story behind this petroglyph, one of Pemberton's most famous (at least, for all the pregnant women who've made … Continue reading Inside the Territory: Walking the Land with Johnny Jones
We're stoked to welcome Lil'wat Cultural Technician Johnny Jones to the Wellness Almanac family. Johnny is a Cultural Technician with the Land and Resource Department and has spent his life walking and studying Lil'wat traditional territory. With his posts, Johnny will take us deep into the territory and give us a glimpse at the Lil'wat … Continue reading Inside the Territory: Walking the Land with Johnny Jones
Thanks to Lil'wat Cultural technician, Johnny Jones, for sharing these images of black huckleberries from his recent site visit to Meager Mountain and Keyhole Falls. According to the International Wild Huckleberry Association, the black huckleberry (also known as Mountain huckleberry, mountain bilberry, tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, thin-leaved huckleberry, globe huckleberry, or Montana huckleberry (V. membranaceum)) … Continue reading Sighted: Huckleberries
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