Supporting Indigenous Communities

Get to know more about the Indigenous Communities in and around southern Vancouver Island:

Esquimalt Nation https://www.esquimaltnation.ca/

BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin) First Nation https://www.pauquachin.ca/

Lyackson First Nation http://lyackson.bc.ca/

MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) Nation https://malahatnation.com/

P’a:chi:da?aht (Pacheedaht) First Nation https://www.bcafn.ca/first-nations-bc/vancouver-island-coast/pacheedaht-first-nation

Sc'ianew (Beecher Bay) First Nation https://www.bcafn.ca/first-nations-bc/vancouver-island-coast/beecher-bay-first-nation-also-known-scianew

Songhees Nation https://www.songheesnation.ca/

Spune’luxutth (Penelakut Tribe) https://penelakut.ca/

SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout) First Nation https://tsawout.ca/

T’Sou-ke Nation http://www.tsoukenation.com/

W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip) First Nation https://tsartlip.com/

W̱SĺḴEM (Tseycum) First Nation http://www.tseycum.ca/

W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council https://wsanec.com/

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May 2021

To our Indigenous friends, relatives, community:

Our hearts have been heavy and with you in these last weeks as the announcements of the 215 children uncovered on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc lands, and now the 104 children who have been uncovered on Sioux Valley Dakota Nation lands and 35 unidentified bodies reported by the Muskowekwan First Nation, and the likely knowledge of future findings. Words cannot be enough to address these wrongs that have created the foundation of the Canada as a nation.

We would like to offer a collection of resources that have crossed our paths and seem relevant to the moment as we discuss, as a board and staff, the ways in which we can more directly offer support.

- Support Lines -

Indian Residential School Survivors Society 24-hour Crisis Line

We Matter – Indigenous Youth Helpline

KUU-US Crisis Line

For our non-Indigenous friends and community, we would like to offer a collection of ways to support the Indigenous people in your life.

- Listen -

How to Support the Tk̓ emlúps te Secwépemc – Statement from the Office of the Chief

Sioux Valley Dakota Nation Statement

- Learn about Residential Schools -

List of Resources on Residential Schools

- Learn about the Land You Are On -

Native Land Digital