I really do appreciate these updates! I really wish there was a lot more support for this channel, hopefully, it will grow over time. I may not be a member of WFN, although I have grown up on I.R. 9 Since 1978 and still live on this land today. I'm not sure if my voice will carry much weight, although, I have a lot of respect for the Syilx people and have a great love for the land. We may not have a lot of control over climate change, but we do have the ability to make a difference. (This may get long-winded, my apologies) Back in the old days, our ancestors all heated their homes, cooked their food, boiled their water, and smoked their meats on wood fires, and they used up all the dead dried-out trees and lowered dead branches from the trees for this, it kept the forests fairly clean from these fuels. Back in those days, there were more broad-leaf trees and giant old-growth Douglas fir around. When your ancestors would burn the forests to rejuvenate the land in the old days, they would have been fast-moving fires that only touched the undergrowth and really didn't hurt the trees at all. With more modern forestry practices they clear-cut large areas of land, taking out the old-growth trees and even the broad-leaf trees that have no market value, and replanting a lot of non-native trees that have higher market value, but they tend to plant these new trees too close together, These trees do ok here for the first 10 to 15 years but they end up crowding themselves out and the weaker trees die, most fall, some stay standing, but nobody collects that wood now that we have gas and electricity, so they fuel these fires. With climate change, those fuels are getting drier, and there are fewer and fewer broad-leaf trees that help to stop the fires. We still need lumber, and we may always need lumber, but I would like to see more money going into replanting native trees and taking care of our forests, more selective logging than traditional clear-cutting. We could maybe make more money on eco-tourism than logging. I don't have all the answers, but I know what we are doing now isn't working on a lot of levels! I do know that the carbon given off from burning wood is not the same carbon given off from burning fossil fuels (current carbon cycles versus sequestered carbon that was taken out of the current carbon cycles) maybe we should go back to heating our houses with wood stoves?
@drydenstewartenterprises11 ай бұрын
I also want to put out there that Carbon 12, the type of carbon that plants readily take up and is good for plants, it is a heavy carbon that settles close to the earth, and the type of carbon given off by plants when they burn. Carbon 13 is given off mainly by fossil fuels that float up into the atmosphere and does cause global warming, Carbon 14 is radioactive, it is caused by nuclear explosions and also come from our sun in small amounts.
@nicolewerstuik5164 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Jordan for the update. Well done leadership for the direction to staff and community to ease all our programs and contractors of this extreme circumstance we are all in.❤
@mochabliss. Жыл бұрын
Thank you for replying to concerns in this difficult time 🙏
@darlenescreativejourney6755 Жыл бұрын
nice to see someone who cares
@DevotionalChannel108 Жыл бұрын
Love it!!!!
@DevotionalChannel108 Жыл бұрын
Great Video!!!!! Everyone should use less water so then everyone else can have water to drink and also the fish need the water to swim in we need to save our water now before it's too late otherwise we are going to run out of water due to global warming
@DevotionalChannel108 Жыл бұрын
I love the Okanagan Valley it's very beautiful here!
@illthought-real Жыл бұрын
My home. Thank you for this 🥹💙
@pamelaraven Жыл бұрын
What a crock of shit...
@kellysouthwind91692 жыл бұрын
well wheres his bald head then???
@crazygeeah1813 жыл бұрын
#justsayno
@crazygeeah1813 жыл бұрын
Who ever is promoting this vaccine will b punished by military tribunal's just too letcha know!!!!!
@SatsumaTengu143 жыл бұрын
Truly beautiful and greatly appreciated . Thank you
@unavoidablycanadian3973 жыл бұрын
Great video, the Okanagan is beautiful and I'm eternally grateful to live here. The prose was wonderful and moving. Thank you for posting.
@pamelaraven3 жыл бұрын
You will still be able to go to school.
@pamelaraven3 жыл бұрын
Don't do it.
@mitchelroukema46603 жыл бұрын
this deserves a sub and a like
@mitchelroukema46603 жыл бұрын
obama to da rim = buckets frfr
@bluememehehe93143 жыл бұрын
WFN people good on you all well done ...we understand and love you ..AROHA FROM AOTEAROA XXXXX
@migdel3 жыл бұрын
Sneak peek at something we don't see often. Thanks.
@theemeraldfox77793 жыл бұрын
This is not traditional! Using machines and materials that are none native
@wackywally694205 ай бұрын
nothing about the way anyone lives is 'traditional'. we have to do what we can with what we have
@basednative2714 жыл бұрын
I am from the okanagan indian band and i am wondering if there is extended footage of these interviews so i can learn more about my culture.
@westbankfirstnation60334 жыл бұрын
Hi Justen, the Sncewips Heritage Museum staff should be able to assist in locating additional footage from these interviews. They are available by phone Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm at 778-755-2787
@bernicejensen80934 жыл бұрын
Question - what was the fat that Pauline drank again.... deer or buffalo?
@RB-vf1uo4 жыл бұрын
Water, "to be as so humble, it will seek the lowest place on this earth". What an incredibly profound statement, we need to stop and listen, and to fill our ears with these teachings.
@leroywhite30503 жыл бұрын
Aho! here is the Way back to peace to stand or sit on the mountain in stillness Then to remember the Way of the People ) To choose life, All life and not the corrupt Way of power and greed . Be the water and the mountain.
@marcushenryweber12904 жыл бұрын
Proud to have grown up in the WFN.
@thebaddangler5 жыл бұрын
that girl in the beginning is pretty cute
@troyfelsman5836 жыл бұрын
Yep’n x̣est. Many words in this dialect are the same as on the Flathead Reservation.
@rrockiie11097 жыл бұрын
I go to that school :D
@S4G3ANDP1N37 жыл бұрын
I am Okanagan from Vernon BC, but I live down on the coast, it makes me sad that I do not know my language and would love to learn if I could because I feel without it there is such a disconnect from my culture. I feel that I should find the time because I keep feeling a calling to learn it. thank you for posting these videos, It is very easy for me to just learn about the broad native culture and beliefs rather than Okanagan specifically. Thank you for posting these videos!
@aftersunset636 жыл бұрын
TocKa I'm also Okanagan and far removed from my culture. Much of my family came from omak and pendicton. I am so thankful for these beautiful and blessed elders.