Mossy Society

Mossy Society will be throwing an end of summer party with SEP 30th at Parc Lafontaine.

music, food, market and more

If you want to get involved please contact

this will be the kick off for a Tlachiuak winter rent fundraiser with any extra proceeds going towards a healing retreat program .arts in partnership with Tlachiuak.

A week before National Truth and Reconciliation Day we will be making posters together and orange shirts (date and time tbd)

Extra hands needed for food prep, photography, market sales, fundraising support, set up/take down, audio engineering, music +++

Also, instruments to share around for jamming and gifts for the giveaway (if you have a connect with stores etc) we are on the hunt for

Nia:wen
Merci!

Art market community gathering May 3rd in support of

Come join the festivities!!

Land back in the Kootenays, who's making it happen? Just learned from my hitchhike host (who was coming back from a Sinixt language class at Selkirk) that the Sinixt people were declared extinct in the 1950's as part of a land grab. They had to flee to the US and the reserve that was supposed to be given to them was sold to the Doukhobors.

My hitchhike host for the earlier leg of the journey, before the junction, was a lovely Doukhobor musician. We talked about mountain music and all the folks telling stories through song in these parts.

Our grandparents didn't know what was happening. They were told the Sinixt people just up and left, that they didn't want to be here anymore.

Now we know... The responsibility has fallen on us to do something about it.

So, what land is being given to the Sinixt in the sacred Slocan valley? What taxes are being paid to them for the land being used here now?

They are a sovereign nation and we have to ask ourselves: When did we give up our sovereignty and how do we get it back? How do we form a nation that has the power to return the land to the rightful caretakers?

If not now, when?