Indigenous Community for Leadership & Development
2922 Glen Drive V3B 2P5 Port Moody, BC, Canada

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Check in: how are you doing today? Don't forget to take care of yourself. With this pandemic still going strong, we are all under an immense amount of stress and feeling a lot of uncertainty about the future. Everything you are feeling is valid and normal. Take time for yourself - reconnect with your hobbies, be gentle with yourself, and reach out for help if you need it. ... #selfcare #begentle #youareimportant #icld

Trivia Saturday! Do you know who Ronald Sparrow is? R. v. Sparrow; May 31, 1990: Ronald Edward Sparrow was a Musqueam band member who was arrested for fishing with a net that was longer than his fishing license allowed. He and the Musqueam band contested the charge, and this case went on to become an important landmark case that set precedence for defending Aboriginal land and resource rights. -------------------------------- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ---------------------------...------ Musqueam band member Ronald Sparrow was arrested in 1984 for fishing with a net bigger than his fishing licensed allowed. The Musqueam band recognized that Sparrow's arrest threatened not only their community's rights but the rights of all indigenous people in Canada. The Musqueam band decided to intervene and defend Sparrow. In essence, the Musqueam band asserted that their community retained the right to fish in their traditional territory because their right to their land and resources were never extinguished by a treaty. Their argument hinged on Section 35 of the 1982 Constitution Act, which recognizes and affirms the rights of indigenous peoples. Sparrow's case traveled from the BC Provincial Court, to the BC County Court, to the BC Court of Appeals, and finally to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Sparrow's right to fish had never been extinguished, and the charge was dismissed. Section 35 was added to the Constitution in 1982 to protect the rights of Aboriginal peoples, but those rights hadn't been defined until Sparrow's case. The final judgement on R. v. Sparrow took place on May 31, 1990, and is regarded as one of the most defining judgements on Aboriginal rights by the Supreme Court of Canada. This case set precedence for future land and resource treaty claims. #history #rights #resources #fishing #treaty #Sparrow If you would like to read in more depth about this topic, here is a great place to start: https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/sparrow_case/

Cultural Friday! A quote from Rhoda Quock on the Sacred Headwaters. #culture #sacred #unite #indigenous

Thoughtful Thursday! A video of ICLD's Directer of Program Services, Shuel-let-qua Q:olosoet (Cynthia Jim) speaking on the power of words.

Wise Wednesday! A quote by Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin.

Our Director of Programs, Shuel-let-qua Q:olosoet aka Cynthia Jim is wearing her beautiful ribbon skirt today to stand with #IsabellaKulak! We support Isabella Kulak in her assertion of ribbon skirt/traditional wear as our formal wear. #WEstandwithIsabellaKulak #ribbonskirtsstandstrong

ICLD is recruiting people with the skills and experience to facilitate the Embracing Grief Workshops. Embracing Grief: Through guided Cultural processes, activities, tools, as well as contemporary research-based methods: 1. To provide an opportunity to develop further awareness, knowledge and skills in reflective practice and processing of personal loss, grief and trauma.... 2. To develop options for helpful responses drawing on the strengths and capacities of First Nation communities. 3. To build short-term and long term resilience to deal with past, present and future trauma or grief triggers 4. Identify and develop plan to utilize family and community supports when they return to the community 5. Encourage participants to share their experience and impact their community See more

Embracing Grief Workshop from ICLD Funding opportunity to bring this important healing process to your community. Contact: [email protected] or DM us!

Hey family and friends. I’m ICLDs Director of Programs and partner. Here’s a special tribute to my eldest girl Fawn Fawn D Wood. She volunteers her time as a young mom, indigenous scholar, indigenous song bird to inspire our Nations amidst these trying times. Join us as we honour her alongside the Social Dance Powwow.