Thelma Wenman knows all too well that the language of her people is dangerously close to extinction. For 14 years, the 50-year-old Chehalis resident has worked to preserve and revitalize Halq'eméylem, ...

Vancouver is “setting an example” for other municipalities by looking at formally acknowledging that the city lies on the unceded traditional territory of three First Nations, according to a Sto:lo ...

Sto:lo elder Maryann Roberts and her husband Percy learned the ways of fishing from their mothers, and have always used the Five Mile Fishery along the Fraser River -- a fishery which, according to ...

The Sto:lo and Sumas First Nations have been fighting for years to have the 65-hectare property known as Lightning Rock returned to them. Jun 14, 2019 Online petition calls for independent ...

Archie Charles is a revered 88-year-old elder in the Sto:lo Nation who shows the way for many others in his community along British Columbia's Fraser River. With sockeye salmon returning to the Fraser ...

When Bernice Williams wheels herself through the halls of her home, she passes by a framed obituary of her uncle, just one of many memoirs of the Sto:lo Nation's most influential elders that hang on ...

At age 77, Elizabeth Phillips is the last fluent speaker of Halq'emeylem, the language of her Sto:lo people Her knowledge of the language, the word meanings, syntax and pronunciation, is incomparable ...