Family Day with Sncewips!
Our FREE family day event will be taking place on Monday, February 19th! We will be giving away take-home crafting kits so that you can make your very own ‘Birch Bark’ basket at home! Each kit will include the materials required to make the basket as well as a QR code with an instructional how-to video.
tmixʷ | tmxʷulaxʷ
tmixʷ (all living things) | tmxʷulaxʷ (the land)
Our culture is the land, the living things, all our relations, and our interconnectivity. In curating our newest display, we worked with community to create artistic representations of some of our traditional medicines. We hope that by sharing our connection to the land, we are able to create a better understanding of our ongoing and shared relationship with the land and all those that inhabit it.
Mountain Goat Rock
If you’ve ever driven around Westbank, you might have noticed a large mountain goat shaped rock - this rock is more than it’s shape. It's a story.
Fire and the Okanagan
Fire is not new to the Okanagan — the out of control nature of it is. Traditionally, the syilx people would utilize fire as a calculated land maintenance tool - this practice was known as a prescribed burn.