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Today it was decided there is going to be a Strategic Planning meeting taking place on June 8th/9th 2011 going from 9am – 3pm this will be hosted by Splatsin. This was put forward from Sexqeltkemc Division today. If there are any questions please feel free to call Neskonlith Indian Band during regular business hours between 8:30am-4:30pm.

Thank You

Community Engagement Visit
Neskonlith/Switsmalph Health Center
Tuesday, April 19 at 5 p.m.
What is your dream for the
future of Secwepemc
families and children?

This weekend there is going to be the Chase Bantam Hockey Tournament at the Chase Holding Arena.

There will be five games on Friday starting at 2:30pm going until around 11:30pm. Starting again on Saturday morning around 7:00am with a total of Nine games that day. Sunday will be the day of the finals for the tournament. There is concession during the Three days with snacks and beverages available.

Come down to the Neskonlith Hall for Dinner at 6pm on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Proceeds will go to support young native atheletes. There will be an awards ceremony and a loonie auction

Download the Poster.

SCES will be having an open house on December 10th, 2010. Come one come all, and check out the new office, and learn about the resources available to all Secwepemc communities. Bert Deneault and I sit on the board for Neskonlith. If you can make the time it would be wonderful to grace yourself with your presence.

If you need to put an announcement in the Secwepemc News you can contact the editor through Facebook.

The new number for SCES is (778) 471-5789.

Provisions have been made for public input as per cut and paste below. One Salmon Arm Post is already on the web site.

We need to be heard.

7. Public involvement
There are a variety of ways in which interested members of the public can stay informed about the work of the commission, including:
• attending the hearings and public forums, and
• reading the transcripts or summaries of these proceedings, and the scientific reports, that will be posted on the commission’s website.
Members of the public are also invited to express their views on issues related to the commission’s mandate, by making a public submission on the commission’s website –http://www.cohenCommission.ca/en/submissions/SubmissionForm.php.

Kim Fulton (AKA Dr. Fish)
5038 Lansdowne Road
Armstrong B.C.
V0E 1B4
250 546 3644

December 28, 2009

URGENT

Dear Friends and Relatives

Our friend, relative, and Spiritual teacher Ken Dennis has been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of esophageal cancer. The western doctors have told him that there is nothing more they can do to help him (treatment). Ken firmly believes in our ways – our medicines, ceremonies, and spiritual ways and is convinced this is what will help him. He has already undergone some ceremonies but needs to undergo more. He can gain the help of a medicine man, Keith Pache, from Manitoba.

In order to bring the medicine man (traditional healer) over to Chase, B. C. to see and treat Ken, we need to raise at least $2,000.00 in the next couple of weeks.

The medicine man is available between January 6-10, 2010. We will need to raise funds for his plane flight and honorarium.

We are calling upon all of Ken’s family, relatives, and friends to help out in his time of need.

Ken has helped out many people and now he needs our help.

Cash donations are needed as well as support in any fund-raising efforts.
Funds need to raised as quickly as possible.

Cash donations can be made at any Royal Bank. The account is set up in the Chase branch under Janice Billy and Dawn Morrison.

Bank information

Royal Bank – Chase, BC
Branch number – 00880
Account number – 507 3598
Type of account – Savings
Name – Janice Billy and Dawn Morrison

Kukstsemc, Janice Billy

I attended my first UBCIC meeting as Councillor for the Neskonlith Band. The meeting was held over two days in Vancouver at the Holiday Inn. The Chiefs in attendance covered a broad range of topics, from health to the mining industry.

The discussion over the two days centered on the proposed Recognition Act and its shortcomings. People say this is complex issue, on the surface it is. This is one in a long line of attempts to get British Columbia Crown Title in BC recognized. The recent Xeni Gwetin case really drove this point home. This legislation will give us recognition alright, but I think it will be more along the lines of the modern treaties that have been signed, than anything of substance, and real meaning. Why would it? Canada and BC still oppose the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. NOTE: Australia now supports the declaration, so now there are only three countries left.

If provincial recognition through legislation isn’t the answer, what do we as indigenous people do? Well we need to answer that on the ground at a grassroots level. On the ground we need to give expression to what our Aboriginal Title is. Stopping the developments that interfere with our cultural, spiritual, and economic activities on the land.

The Leadership Council has a series of regional forums on this topic that are planned this summer. The first one in Prince George already took place, with the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council expressing opposition. The next regional forum is in Cranbrook, which I will be attending, so if there is anyone from the area that would like to join me, contact me at the band office.

Kukpi7 Judy Wilson gave a report on the Walk4Justice that is taking place right now, that left Vancouver May 29th and was in Kamloops on June 1st. They are making their way north to Prince George and from there will walk the Highway 16. This highway is called the Highway of Tears because of all the women who have went missing along the highway. The chiefs promptly passed a box around and raised money for the women on the walk.