syiyaya Days 2023 This 11-day celebration of reconciliation within the shishalh swiya – syiyaya Days – will be celebrated June 21 – July 1, 2023.  Mark your calendar! This multi-day vent promises to be even better than last year. syíyaya Days began in 2022 with a...

Kairos Blanket Exercise This participatory workshop helps participants to understand how colonization of the land we now know as British Columbia and Canada has impacted the people who lived here long before settlers arrived. Through this exercise you will explore the...

The Owner/Operator of Talaysay Tours, Candace Campo is the shishalh artist who designed the beautifully inclusive syiyaya logo. Candace, who’s ancestral name is xets’emits’a (to always be there), is a shíshálh member born and raised on the Sunshine Coast.  Today,...

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In loving memory of our beloved Cindy & Tony Ɂantuni Tony Paul was an authentic shishalh Nation carver who has practised his art form from the young age of 16 years. A descendent of master carver and canoe builder Anthony Hurst, Tony was deeply recognized by his...

Shain Niniwum Selápem Jackson is Coast Salish from the community of Sechelt. He is a lawyer who has represented the interests of Indigenous communities and organizations throughout British Columbia in relation to a broad array of issues. After years devoted to the...