Uy skweyul siiye'yu (Good day friends), Over the next few months I am going to be weaving through Teachings Tuesday's that feature one of our incredible Mentors: who they are, how they came to share in this work, and a few of the reasons we love them so much. This week I'd like to introduce you to my dear friend, Daniel Elliott of Stz'uminus First Nation. And to do that, I have to go back quite a few years. In 2017 I had the amazing good fortune to meet an incredible man who would end up...

Two weeks ago, George and I spent an afternoon in the Feast House on Grouse Mountain, presenting to a group of health regulators. We talked about cultural safety, complaints pathways, board recruitment, licensing, all the quiet machinery that decides whether Indigenous Peoples trust a system or not—aspects of healthcare often ignored in abstract policy talk. We discussed the granular questions of who gets to define safety, and who has been carrying generations of justified hesitation toward...

A teaching from Stuart Pagaduan, Coast Salish artist Stuart Pagaduan opens with a greeting in his language: 'Uy' skweyul. Good day. He is a Coast Salish artist, and at the Longhouse Experiential Workshop, he sat with us to share something we have never explained publicly in quite this way: the teaching behind the Culturally Committed logo. Most of us see the logo every day. The heart. The figure at the centre. The birds surrounding it. But Stuart's explanation of what each element carries...