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CITY NDN LUV

Savage Society Artistic Associate Kelsey Kanatan Wavey continues to develop their new play, CITY NDN LUV.

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Aiysiniiksin: Keeping the Tradition Alive

‘Aiysiniiksin: Keeping the Tradition Alive’, a new podcast hosted by Darylina Powderface, centres Indigenous stories, experiences, and ways of being, doing, knowing and creating through the embodiment of oral storytelling.

 

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Knaksht: The Helping Hand

Kevin Loring, in collaboration with Ronnie Dean Harris, spent time this year working on research and development for the new play Knaksht: The Helping Hand. The story involves a Scottish immigrant from the Shetland Isles who settled in present day Spences Bridge within the Nlaka’pamux Nation and became a close friend and ally of the chiefs of the allied Interior Tribes of British Columbia at a very crucial time.

Instrumental in recording the diminishing culture of the Interior tribes at the turn of the 20th century due to the impacts of colonization, James Teit married into the tribe and learned the language fluently. He was also responsible for recording many of the wax cylinders featuring traditional Nlaka’pamux singers used in Savage Society’s community projects today. This new play will tell the story of Teit’s friendship with Chief Telhníts’a7 [Tetlanetza] of Spences Bridge and their struggle to fight for Indigenous rights during the most harrowing time of our shared history.