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Saturday, April 1, 2017

Jim Hart- #Reconciliation Pole- UBC- 1pm Today!!

A great opportunity today at #UBC’s campus starting at 1pm - raising of the Reconciliation Pole, carved by Jim Hart & team. #SAA2017 pic.twitter.com/vOSUmSnfL8
— charlesmenzies (@charlesmenzies) April 1, 2017

This marvelous "Reconciliation pole" by Haida carver Jim Hart et al will be raised at UBC at 1 pm this Saturday. pic.twitter.com/saLbrLZ0TD
— Edward John (@AkileChoh) March 29, 2017

"@UBC: Join Us Saturday installation #Reconciliation #TotemPole All welcome @ historic event https://t.co/BGw5zZMYzl pic.twitter.com/DPC2LVlnl8
— Haida Princess (@HaidaPrincess) March 30, 2017

http://www.douglasreynoldsgallery.com/jim-hart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hart_(artist)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaver_Manda_by_Jim_Hart,_Canadian_Museum_of_History.jpg

From Wikipedia
Photo Description
English: Beaver "Manda", by Jim Hart, 1995, Canadian Museum of History
Date 21 February 2016
Source Own work
Author D. Gordon E. Robertson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hart_(artist)
Hart was born in Massett, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. His mother, Joan Hart, is the grand-daughter of Charles Edenshaw. His father was European, allowing Hart to escape the Canadian Indian residential school system that many Haida of his time were sent to. Instead, he grew up with his grandparents and became a fisherman.[2]

Hart discovered his passion for Haida art in high school. He began carving seriously in 1979. Hart first apprenticed with Robert Davidson in 1978 to help construct a set of totem poles. From 1980 to 1984 he became an assistant to Bill Reid in Vancouver, who by then was too seriously afflicted with Parkinson's disease to do much of his own carving. He began his work with Reid by putting the finishing details on The Raven and the First Man, a centerpiece of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, and he also assisted on Reid's Spirit of Haida Gwaii / The Jade Canoe.[2][4]

Hart lives in both Vancouver and Haida Gwaii.[2] In Haida Gwaii, he is known as ˀIdansuu, a hereditary chief name that he received in 1999 after it had earlier been held by Charles Edenshaw.[2][3] As chief he belongs to the Hereditary Chiefs Council of the Haida Nation.[5] He was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 2003.[6] Read more

A little teaser in advance of tomorrow's pole raising. Will we be seeing you there?

A post shared by Museum of Anthropology (@moa_ubc) on Mar 31, 2017 at 12:28pm PDT

Reconciliation Pole at UBC to confront harsh reality of residential schools #Reconciliation https://t.co/kj9MOq5XEQ pic.twitter.com/9fiWZfwt8e
— Lyle Viereck (@LyleViereck) April 1, 2017

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Totem Pole is home!

House of Tears carver society and master carver Jewell James gift the totem pole at Turtle Lodge today in Manitoba. Placed symbolically along the route of the proposed energy east pipeline, uniting all nations and peoples to come together to stop fossil fuel expansion and protect sacred lands and water.

Photos by Nancy Bleck

Smudge - Blessing the Pole
http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/ancient-art-smudging

"Native American practice of smudging, or purifying a room with the smoke of sacred herbs, can help clear negative energy from a space. And the apparent benefits are steeped in science—when burned, sage and other herbs release negative ions, which research has linked to a more positive mood."

photo by Nancy Bleck

photo by Nancy Bleck — at Sagkeeng First Nation.

photo by Nancy Bleck

Sunday, July 17, 2016

Help the 2016 Totem Pole Journey

Please help support the 2016 Totem Pole Journey.
From their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/306228753051381/

"We're almost there!! We have 5 days to go and we need $608 to meet our goal (ends July 21st)! If we don't make the $8000 goal, we cannot collect the donations we've received so far. Anything above and beyond the $8000 will still be applied to the expenses of the Journey.

So please donate now at http://www.faithify.org/projects/2016-totem-pole-journey/ and pass the word onto friends, co-workers, allies, family and communities!

The Native American Connections Ministry Team of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship, in conjunction with the UU Faithify crowdfunding site, are working together to raise $8,000 for the Totem Pole Journey.

Folks wanting to donate after July 21st can go to the Totem Pole Journey website at www.totempolejourney.com/donate
"

This Journey focuses on acknowledging the devastating impacts of the multitude of fossil fuel projects and how those projects transgress with impunity across state lines in the U.S. and across international borders, particularly the U.S./Canadian border.

They include the transportation lanes from the Bakken oil fields throughout the U.S and the pipelines carrying Alberta tar sands that crisscross the international border from the Washington, Oregon and British Columbia in the Pacific Northwest, across the Great Lakes region, to Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine in the Northeast.

Whether in the U.S. or in Canada, the devastating impacts of the fossil fuel projects are hitting the First/American Indian Nations the hardest.

http://www.faithify.org/projects/2016-totem-pole-journey/

Lummi Nation, for the past three years, has been cultivating relations and alliances across the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and Canada.

One of the ways these relations and alliances have been developed has been through the Totem Pole Journeys.

The first Journey in 2013 traveled under the banner of “Kwel Hoy: We Draw the Line.”

The Totem Pole created then now stands as a sentinel to watch over the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation near Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada, a testament of the opposition to the existing and proposed pipelines running through its territory.

In 2014, a Totem Pole journeyed under the banner of “Our Shared Responsibility” and now stands as sentinel in the territory of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation that is being severely and adversely impacted by tar sands extraction.

In 2015, a Totem Pole was created to stand as a sentinel over the Northern Cheyenne who were threatened with coal extraction and shipment out of the sacred sites of Otter Creek and the Tongue River in Montana.

Read more here please.
http://www.faithify.org/projects/2016-totem-pole-journey/#description

Blessing Stop                                                               Date of Event
Bellingham, WA, U.S.                                                       August 23
Vancouver, British Columbia Province, Canada         August 23-24
Seattle, WA, U.S.                                                                August 25
Longview, WA, U.S.                                                          August 26
Yakama, WA, U.S.                                                              August 27
Spokane, WA, U.S.                                                            August 27
Sandpoint, ID, U.S.                                                           August 28
Missoula, MT, U.S.                                                             August 28
Edmonton, Alberta Province, Canada                           August 30
Regina, Saskatchewan Province, Canada                      September 1
Cheyenne River, SD, U.S.                                                 September 3
Yankton, SD, U.S.                                                              September 4
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada                                         September 7

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Outside the Museum of Anthropology

We really enjoyed wandering the grounds outside the museum. My daughter enjoyed the inside but as soon as we got outside and she went to the water she commented how lovely and calm it was out there. I saw her totally relax and really just blend into the environment. I imagined what things would have been like 200 , 200 or 20,000 years ago...how different life was then...what will our life be like in the future...I don't know but resting there yesterday with the totem poles and long houses it was really lovely and peaceful. I would like that life. Seeing the tools that were used for fishing and other things I am started to imagine how we can go back...we can be more harmonious...we can..
Here's the other blogpost I did. It's the inside of the museum, check them out after you look at the photos below if you haven't seen them already.

Inside the Museum of Anthropology Summer 2016

Meet Yágis- he eats Tankers!!

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Gwaii Haanas Legacy Pole -Totem Pole Raising - Aug. 15, 2013

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From the Parks Canada Website-
About this Video

The Gwaii Haanas Legacy Pole is a 42-foot monumental pole commissioned by a unique cooperative management board made up of equal members of the Haida Nation and the Government of Canada. Known as the Archipelago Management Board (AMB), the body is renowned throughout the world as a model for cultural and natural resource governance. The pole is being carved to honour the 20th anniversary of the Gwaii Haanas Agreement, the cornerstone of a groundbreaking relationship that protects the natural and marine resources.

The Gwaii Haanas Legacy Pole will be raised at Hlk'yah GawGa (Windy Bay) on Lyell Island on Aug. 15, 2013. This will be the first pole raised in the Gwaii Haanas region in over 130 years, building a connection with the historic poles still standing in the villages of SGang Gwaay (also a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and Skedans (K'uuna Llnagaay).

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Very Chilly Day in Vancouver

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A VERY CHILLY DAY IN VANCOUVER! BRRRR!