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Feb 15- April 15 Exploring CQ 🇨🇦

An enlightening cross-cultural experience with Exploring CQ Filmmaker, photographer and musician Wilbur Sargunaraj provided an entertaining and energetic opening to the “Exploring CQ” exhibit, on now at the Humboldt and District Museum. The exhibit is a revealing and thought provoking look at the cultural mixes Sargunaraj has encountered in his travels w...

CQ KNOWLEDGE LESSON: The goal of the Indian Act in Canada was Assimilation. 🇨🇦 In 1884 the Indian Act was amended to ban ceremonies like the POTLACH. Popular with the Coast Salish peoples the Potlach means "TO GIVE". A Potlach upholds legal tradition, redistribution of wealth, refinement of oral history and affirmation of boundaries. Since these events reject the western value of private property, ownership and individualism, Potlaches were deemed as a major barrier to assimilation. After the Potlaches were banned the Coast Salish people continued to hold them in secret but if caught they were faced with imprisonment and their ceremonial items such as masks or totem poles could be sold or confiscated. Canada wanted to erase any sense of cultural identity held by the First Nations and it found many ways to do this including one we all know and have heard in the news....RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS. 📸 Canon PowerShot A75 3.2 MP Vancouver, BC. ca 2009

Welcome to another podcast episode of CQ Chats! Increase your Cultural Intelligence and learn about the Dutch concept of NIKSEN and GEZELLIGHEID. Featuring therapist and consultant Jeroen Smit from Drenthe, Netherlands.

CQ CHATS - Niksen in Netherlands: The Art of Doing Nothing In this episode of CQ chats we are talking about the Dutch concept of Niksen and the art of doing nothing! Joining us is Jeroen Smit a therapist and consultant based in Drenthe, Holland. CQ Chats is a virtual journey around the world to meet new friends a...