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We are not like the stereotyped Hollywood Indigenous people, the ones that ride horses and shoot bows and arrows and wear headdresses. They are based on Plains First Nations; other nations are totally different. Horses came to the plains in the…
Exhibition: I Am Here
Jasna is a journalism student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. As a child, Jasna chose to play with a pen and paper before toys. She was an independent child and pursued many creative hobbies such as making crafts and putting on theatre…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
I am from the Ahousat First Nation
I am looking for me and my family
I am learning to speak my language
I am listening to songs
I am remembering fishing with my grandpa
I used to smell fish, fresh from the ocean
I am waiting for the earth to…
Exhibition: I Am Here
I am Huu-ay-aht
I am looking for food
I am listening to music
I am remembering my culture
I used to skateboard
I am hopeful
I am waiting for a journey
I am running on coffee
I am chasing dreams
I am hoping to graduate
I am living a happy…
Exhibition: I Am Here
A group of kids, sometime in the 1970s judging from the outfits, check out the handling collection at the BC Provincial Museum. While most of the museum's collection items are best viewed with your eyes and not your hands, some pieces are designed…
Exhibition: RBCM through the Ages
Henry Hunt (October 16, 1923–March 13, 1985) was a First Nations (Kwakwaka'wakw) woodcarver and artist from British Columbia. Hunt trained under and succeeded famed totem carver Mungo Martin as Master Carver for Thunderbird Park at the Royal BC…
Exhibition: RBCM through the Ages
A picture from the BC Archives showing a behind the scenes look of the exhibit construction process of the much-loved Old Town. The now closed Becoming BC exhibition was completed and opened to the public in 1972 and featured a number of then state-…
Exhibition: RBCM through the Ages
Hannah is a student at the University of Victoria, double majoring in French and writing. She plans on becoming a French immersion educator. “I love to read in my free time. I like to go for walks, basically any kind of grandma activities,” Hannah…
Exhibition: Climate Hope
Kristen is an English and journalism student at the University of Victoria. Over the past four years, she has split her time between Victoria, British Columbia and her childhood home in Langley, BC. Growing up as a middle child, Kristen’s parents…
Exhibition: Climate Hope