Dates of Ktunaxa vaccine clinics
Starting September 13, everyone will be required to show proof of vaccination when accessing certain places in B.C., such as licensed restaurants.
Please see this website for details.
When did you get your COVID-19 immunization shot?
You’ll need the date of when you received a dose to receive the B.C. Vaccine Card.
Here is a list of where and when the vaccination clinics were in Ktunaxa communities and at the KNC Government Building in Cranbrook.
ʔaq̓am: 2 locations: ʔaq̓amnik School & ʔaq̓am Health Centre
March 18, 20
March 31
May 12
June 2,15,16
ʔakisq̓nuk: ʔakisq̓nuk Health Centre
March 19
May 11
June 10
Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡiʾit : Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡiʾit Health Centre
March 6
Apr 19
May 27
Ktunaxa Nation Council Health Clinic
April 20
June 17
July 6
Visit to Qat’muk
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Malyan Bursary Announcement
We are pleased to announce
Caytlyn Red Fawn Luke
as the recipient of the
21st Annual Malyan Michel Bursary.
Ktunaxa Strong – July 2021 Edition
Ktunaxa Call to Gather: Columbia Lake East Side
UPDATE ON 2021 KTUNAXA NATION COUNCIL AGA
Thanking allies for their solidarity
Thanking allies for their solidarity with
Tḱemlúps te Secwe̓pemc and all Indigenous communities
Read the statement on the St Eugene Resort website.
For Immediate Release
June 21, 2021
ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa / Kootenay Region, B.C.: Since the announcement on May 27 that ground-penetrating radar had confirmed the remains of 215 children at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, many non-Indigenous allies have expressed a desire to learn more about these institutions.
They want to know how to support efforts towards truth and accountability in regards to the impacts residential school institutions have had on Indigenous individuals, families and communities.
The Tḱemlúps te Secwe̓pemc, who are the home community of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, have issued a statement for the public outlining ways to support their community.
The statement can be found on their website at www.tkemlups.ca, dated June 3, 2021.
People can also visit Qwelminte Secwepemc: For the Children to find out about events and avenues to provide helpful support.
SOME HISTORY
In ʔamakʔis Ktunaxa, the homelands of the Ktunaxa people, the Kootenay Indian Residential School operated as one such institution for 60 years, between 1910 and 1970. Thousands of children from many communities were forced to attend, subject to Canadian laws of the time.
By the year 2000, and after nearly two decades of effort by Ktunaxa Communities and partners, the site reopened as the St. Eugene Resort, welcoming visitors from around the world. The resort is within the Ktunaxa Community of ʔaq̓am, near Cranbrook, B.C.
St. Eugene Resort is owned by the five related Band communities of ʔaq̓am, ʔakisq̓nuk, Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡiʾit, Yaqan Nuʔkiy and Shuswap Indian Band, who, as a collective, are responsible for overseeing resort operations and of leading the cultural reclamation efforts that are made there.
“We are communities of survivors and descendants of survivors,” said Sophie Pierre, who is chair of the board of the resort, and who attended the residential institution as a child.
“We share our grief with Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc and other communities who have been impacted and who are faced with the overwhelming prospect of consultation, investigation, justice-seeking and healing that is ahead.”
In the past few years, the public has learned in more detail about the unmarked burials of Indigenous children who attended residential institutions and who never returned home. (215 in Kamloops, 104 in Brandon MB, 35 in Regina SK,)(UPDATE June 24: 751 in another location in Saskatchewan.)
As well, during Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation process, the commission was able to track thousands more missing children and unmarked burials around former residential institutions. The report on its findings is available online, and is called Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.
Since the Tḱemlúps te Secwe̓pemc announced the confirmation of unmarked burials in Kamloops, non-Indigenous Canadians have expressed outrage, shock and sadness, and have asked for ways to help.
“The outpouring of empathy and public support for all of our Communities is appreciated,” Pierre said.
“In the case of St. Eugene, any initiatives will be guided by elders from our five Communities, with assistance from the Ktunaxa Nation Council. Community governments will reach out to the public with requests for support as these ways are determined.”
Pierre said that, while it is natural for non-Indigenous people to become more active in finding answers and demanding accountability from governments, churches and others who ran the residential institutions, the most helpful way to start is to learn more about the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and to support legitimate services that are set up to assist survivors.
“Please, remember that these discoveries can reignite suppressed grief and the effects of intergenerational trauma for many of us,” she said. “As survivors, we know there is a lot of information about how to help appropriately to be found online, starting with the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report, and going from there.
“We encourage our allies to research the history of residential schools and Canada’s current treatment of survivors and communities, and also to know that we deeply appreciate their solidarity.”
Qwelminte Secwepemc: For the Children
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports
History of the Kootenay Indian Residential School (St. Eugene Mission School)
Yaqan NuɁkiy MEDIA RELEASE & MEDICAL LETTER DOWNLOAD
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