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VIDEO & PHOTOS: Indigenous Peoples Day brings culture, connection to Colwood
The annual celebration featured a canoe landing protocol, drum and dance performances, and language revitalization efforts on Lekwungen lands.
- Yesterday, June 19, Royal Roads University hosted National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations at its Colwood campus, featuring a canoe landing protocol practice led by Lekwungen Cultural Facilitator Bradley Dick and his father, Butch Dick.
- The canoe landing protocol practice reflected when waterways served as vital roadways between communities, held on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen-speaking families and ancestors of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
- Visitors enjoyed performances by the ANSWER2 Drum Group and Lekwungen Traditional Dancers and Singers. During the opening ceremony, Elder Josephine Dick shared her journey learning the Lekwungen language from her granddaughter.
- Lekwungen Cultural Facilitator Bradley lightened the mood with a joke about commitment, while Butch emphasized appreciating and respecting the diverse identities of all community members.
- For Bradley, sharing these traditions is an honour and a responsibility to carry cultural knowledge forward. Attendee 18-year-old UVic student Robbi Iuvale noted the beauty of younger generations actively engaged in language revitalization.
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VIDEO & PHOTOS: Indigenous Peoples Day brings culture, connection to Colwood
The old jokes are always the best. After asking folks gathered at the shore of Esquimalt Lagoon to repeat back to him the Lekwungen phrase “Eykwachey’ul,” Bradley Dick (Yuxwelupton Qwal’ qaxala) hits them with the punchline. “You’ve all just committed to giving me all your money,” he says, drawing a wave of laughter from the crowd. He admits it’s a joke he tells every year at National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations, held in the grounds of R…
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