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We believe in Stó:lō — together we will engage in all things related to our journey towards nationhood. Join us season by season as we talk to Stó:lō, the people of the river, about S’ólh Téméxw, about our ancestors, and about our way forward.
The Stó:lō Signal Podcast is the audio component of the Stó:lō Xwexwílmexw Government’s Magazine by the same name. Our host is Á’a:líya Warbus.
The Stó:lō Signal Podcast is the audio component of the Stó:lō Xwexwílmexw Government’s Magazine by the same name. Our host is Á’a:líya Warbus.
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Guests:
Satsan, Herb George, Hereditary Chief of the Frog Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation
Xwelíqweltel, Grand Chief Steven Point
“People take off their Indian Act hat and it’s quite dynamic and amazing to observe and be a part of. And then they put on their inherent right blanket, their robe of power. And then they start talking about, okay, now this is what we need to do together,” says Satsan in this far-reaching conversation with Grand Chief Steven Point. The pair spoke during our Light the Fire video series in April 2022 and we’ve condensed the talk a bit, but this podcast still covers so much including, our inherent right to self-government, the impact of the Indian Act, the push to revise the Canadian Constitution to recognize Aboriginal and Treaty Rights, Indigenous Rights Court Cases and more.
S03 EP01 Podcast Notes
The Halq’eméylem language is spoken from Five Mile Creek near Yale to the mouth of the Fraser River. Christine Seymour of Sq’ewqéyl did not plan to become a language teacher when she went to university, but that’s how her career has worked out. With only one fluent speaker of the Upriver dialect left, we must Tset hikwstexw te sqwelteltsetwe “Hold our language high.” In this episode, Christine tells her story to The Fraser Valley Current’s Grace Kennedy.
Ep 07 Podcast Notes
The ancient beliefs of Stó:lō people are layered throughout the land and language. This season, we will explore a set of Halq’eméylem principles that Naxaxalhts’i Sonny McHalsie has written down. Through his work recording oral history and language with Elders over the last several decades, he’s identified key phrases that have been repeated time and time again. These principles could be considered the guiding laws for our Stó:lō Way of Life.
In this second episode of the season we explore: Shxw’eywelh mestiyexw “A generous person.” This teaching recalls not only the story of xepá:y, a generous man who was transformed into a cedar tree, but the idea that knowledge is only important when you share it. Thank you to our guests for their generosity.
Guests: Iyoxweliya Val Joe and Naxaxalhts’i Sonny McHalsie
Episode 2 Podcast Notes
Episode 1 – S’ólh Téméxw te íkw’elò: This is our Land
The ancient beliefs of Stó:lō people are layered throughout the land and language. This season, we will explore a set of Halq’eméylem principles that Naxaxalhts’i Sonny McHalsie has written down. Through his work recording oral history and language with Elders over the last several decades, he’s identified key phrases that have been repeated time and time again. These principles could be considered the guiding laws for our Stó:lō Way of Life. In this first episode of the season we explore: S’ólh Téméxw te íkw’elò. Xólhmet te mekw stám ít kwelát. This is our Land. We have to take care of everything that belongs to us.
EP. 1 Podcast Notes
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Join host Á’a:liya Warbus and Sq'ewá:lxw’s Managing Director Sharron Young as they discuss women in Stó:lō leadership, family history, members coming back to communities, four-day work weeks, and the importance of healing and repairing relationships between Stó:lō leaders and people, so that all our communities become stronger. She wasn’t raised in Sq'ewá:lxw, but Sharron Young has grown into her leadership role in her community over the last 20 years and shares her journey with such generosity. Please take the time to enjoy this far ranging conversation!
Xwelméxw: People of Life The Webs that Connect Us Guest: Dr. Keith Carlson In this far-ranging conversation, Dr. Keith Carlson and podcast host Á’a:líya Warbus discuss his long-time work as a historian for the Stó:lō people and some of the projects he’s been involved since first arriving in Chilliwack in 1992. Everything from interviewing Elders […]
Episode 4 – Xólhmet te mekw’stám ít kwelát: We have to take care of everything that belongs to us
Guest: Maex̱’eyétel Jason Thompson, Leq’á:mel
Many young people can’t wait to put distance between themselves and the place they grew up in. The answers are out there, rather than at home among the people we’ve known all of our lives. But what makes us change our minds? Leq’á:mel’s Jason Thompson talks with host A’a:liya Warbus about making a conscious decision to change directions and come back to do important work on the land and strengthen his cultural and personal connections to his community.
Podcast Notes
Episode 3 – Never forget your roots – A Stó:lō police officer’s story
Guest: Angie Kermer, Leq’á:mel
Leq’á:mel’s Angie Kermer talks with host A’a:liya Warbus about her 30-year career as an RCMP officer, Indigenous policing in other jurisdictions, Stó:lō justice pre-contact and more. Kermer is Haida, Stó:lō, Squamish and Nooksack through her immediate family connections, and has lived in Port Hardy, Campbell River, North Vancouver, Leq’á:mel and more. Listen in as she discusses how she stayed true to her community ways, implementing them into her work and police culture, while witnessing the world change and grow.
Podcast Notes
Episode 2 – We are the People of the River: Post-Contact Fishing in Context
Guests: Xwelíqweltel, Grand Chief Steven Point
When the Europeans arrived in the 1800s, they considered the People of the River as the owners of the land and the fish in the river. The Stó:lō traded with those who first arrived and helped create new products and markets for the Hudson Bay Company, who were originally interested in fur. Since that early time, the colonial government has imposed ever increasing rules to restrict Stó:lō access to the fish in Stó:lō territory. Xwelíqweltel, Grand Chief Steven Point discusses this history and why the Stó:lō people need to understand the past in order to move forward.
S3 EP2 Podcast notes
Guest: Stacy McNeil, Executive Director of Sq’ewqéyl
This is a clean slate. We’re starting over. Let’s see what we can do. Stacy McNeil was given these words of encouragement when she started her job as manager of Sq’ewqéyl, one of several small Stó:lō communities surrounded by the City of Chilliwack. She knew she could get things done, but she also knew from her upbringing in the community of Seabird Island across the Fraser River, that listening to the community voices is essential to moving forward. Listen in as she shares stories about her efforts to help not only Sq’ewqéyl, but also Áthelets and Yeqwyeqwí:ws’s dreams come true.
Episode 9 Podcast Notes
Guests: Naxaxalhts’i Dr. Albert (Sonny) McHalsie
When Stó:lō Elder Elizabeth Herrling told Sonny McHalsie that knowledge is only important when you share – that you could be the smartest person in the world and know everything, but if you don’t share it, it’s meaningless – it set him on a path to become the Nation’s historian.
In this eighth episode, listen in as Naxaxalhts’i shares stories about his work recording Elders, learning history and why he thinks that all Stó:lō need to hear what he has learned.
S2EP Podcast notes
How do youth stay on a good path when there is so much going on in the world and in their personal lives? In this episode, we talk to rising football star, Tyson George Kelly, and to the Stó:lō Xwexwílmexw youth coordinator Jen Archie about an important Stó:lō principle Thehítchexw ta’ sqwálewel “Keep your mind on what you’re doing.”
Ep 6 Podcast Notes
In the old way, the Elders give someone a name because they recognize the child’s ancestors or their spirit. But even though someone receives a name, they still have to earn it. In this episode, we talk to the members of one Ch’iyáqtel/Tzeachten family about their ancestral names and how they received them. Xaxa stexw […]
Stó:lō people have two important types of stories. Sxwōxwiyá:m — our creation stories, or stories of our distant past and Sqwélqwel or true news, which are stories passed down between generations. In this fourth episode of the season we explore storytelling and the oral tradition and why it is important to our people. We welcome gifted storyteller Shóyshqwelwhet Gwen Point as she talks to us about Xepa:y, her grandmother and so much more.
Episode 4 Podcast Notes
The ancient beliefs of Stó:lō people are layered throughout the land and language. This season, we will explore a set of Halq’eméylem principles that Naxaxalhts’i Sonny McHalsie has written down. Through his work recording oral history and language with Elders over the last several decades, he’s identified key phrases that have been repeated time and time again. These principles could be considered the guiding laws for our Stó:lō Way of Life.
In this third episode of the season we explore: Xólhmet te mekw’ stam s’i:wes te selsila:lh chet. “Take care of everything our great grandparents taught (showed) us.” This teaching reminds us of our responsibilities to seven generations past and seven generations forward. It also reminds us of the important Stó:lō concept of sqwélqwel. Listen to the episode to learn more and download the podcast notes.
What do our communities need? Who decides and how do we go about getting those programs or services? We are coming up to a vote on the Constitution which will help define our future Stó:lō Xwexwílmexw nation. Mail-in ballots have been sent out and voting officially opens online on November 4 at onefeather.ca. In person voting also opens on November 13 and 14 in Leq’á:mel, Tzeachten and at our Stó:lō Nation Governance House. So what ARE we asking you to vote on? It’s not the treaty. Not yet. Our negotiators are still working on that. But in order to ensure we are all on the same page, we do need our communities to agree upon our Constitution first. This document defines how the six villages of the Stó:lō Xwexwílmexw will work together in the future as a government.
Check out our Episode 7 Notes
Everyone likes a story, right? Yeqwyeqwí:ws Councillor Jazmine Horne wants everyone to understand about the Stó:lō Xwexwílmexw Constitution . So in the same vein as work done by X-syte youth team members for the Stó:lō Xwexwílmexw Treaty Association in 2012, Jazmine teamed up with illustrator Melissa Kendzierski to refresh the story of Kw’í:ts’téleq. In Volume 2 , Kw’í:ts’téleq escapes residential school and goes on a journey to learn how six communities can work together. We can’t tell you more than that. . .
Check out our Episode 6 Notes
What does it mean to be a sovereign nation and how does that translate into governance? In this episode we explore ideas of nationhood and how our Shxwelméxwelh/Constitution, a document that describes our ancient beliefs in a modern way, is an essential part of our path to self-government. We also hear our chiefs discuss their visits to far-flung Indigenous communities who are leading the way. Our communities will vote on the Constitution in November. We believe in Stó:lō.
Episode 5 Notes
In which, Wenona Hall says: “I never want to disrespect what the generations ahead of us went through. . . The types of genocide you and I are experiencing are quite benign in comparison to the genocide our ancestors experienced. And so I can understand the fear and the trauma that goes along with that. But we can’t use that as the next generation. We need to stand up!”
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