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Syilx Okanagan Nation Welcomes Joint Statement with David Eby on Transborder Consultation Policy with US Tribes, Including on Big White Ski Resort Expansion; Nation Asks All Party Leaders to Clarify Their Positions Ahead of Elections

Nation launches public awareness campaign to assert its role as the representative of Sinixt people in Canada and says First Nations located on the Canadian side of the border must always be the priority and primary focus of all levels of government. The Syilx Okanagan Nation and NDP Leader, David Eby, have issued a joint […]

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Take the Indian Out of the Child Book

The Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) is proud to share this record of our people’s endurance through the darkest chapter of our collective story. While there are now many books about the Indian residential school system, this is the first to speak about the specific ways in which it has touched the Syilx people. This book […]

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The Syilx Indian Residential School Experience

Justice Murray Sinclair, during his engagement with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, made two incredibly profound statements to the effect: First, that the Indian residential school didn’t just happen to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, it happened to all Canadians; and second that Canada’s Indian residential school system represented “cultural genocide” against all of Canada’s […]

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Okanagan Nation Alliance Release the 2020 – 2021 Annual Report

We are pleased to present to you the Okanagan Nation Alliance Annual Report for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, which reports on initiatives, activities, partnerships and progress as we work to uphold the Okanagan Nation Declaration. From our work defending and asserting Title and Rights, to continued efforts to call salmon back to the territory, or […]

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