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Chief Ian Campbell is one of 16 Hereditary Chiefs of the Squamish Nation. Currently serving his second term as an elected Councillor for the Squamish Nation Chiefs and Council, he was appointed as a Political Spokesperson. He has been employed as the Cultural Ambassador & Negotiator for the Intergovernmental Relations Department of the Squamish Nation since 1999.
Host
Amanda Nahanee works as a history educator, and engages in curriculum development, research, analysis, and reporting. As a Performing artist she is an actor, model, First Nations storyteller, First Nations singer, and dancer.
Cultural Dance
Spakwus Slolem, (translated,”Eagle Song Dancers), are members of the Squamish Nation. Their presentations brings out “Chiax”, the protocol and laws of our canoe culture, for their Longhouses. Their performances of singing / drumming and dance provides a glimpse into the culture, traditions and history of their people travelling across the waters in great canoes to visit Family in distant land.
Cultural Dance
Git Hayetsk means the people of the copper shield. Our dancers are bonded by their common ancestry to the Sm’algyak speaking peoples with distinctions in their family ties to the Haida, Tlingit, Haisla, and Musqueam Nations. Since 2003, they have shared songs and dances at ceremonial and public events throughout Canada, USA, Austria, Malaysia, Germany, and Japan.
Cultural Dance
The Dancers of Damelahamid is an Indigenous dance company. Their rich history of masked dance inspires a compelling performance, celebrating the diversity and time depth of the many Indigenous cultures across Canada. Through dramatic dance, captivating narrative, intricately carved masks and elaborate regalia, the Dancers transform time and space and bridge the ancient with a living tradition.
Cultural Dance
V’ni Dansi is a Vancouver-based traditional Métis and contemporary dance company dedicated to sharing the dances, stories and culture of the Métis. Grounded in the teachings of their elders and the medicine wheel four directions, the dancers innovate through both traditional and contemporary dance expressions to AWAKEN
Poetry
Nyla Carpentier (Tahltan, Kaska, French, Scottish) is a multifaceted performing artist. She is a poet, a powwow dancer and workshop facilitator. Nyla performed her new solo Dissection of a… Mixed Heritage Woman (Victoria and Vancouver Fringe Festival). Drawing on her experience as someone of mixed heritage — her goal is to blend the past, present and create new works for the future.
Music
Wayne Lavallee is an actor, musician, score composer of film and dance. He’s been nominated and awarded by notable establishments such as the Canadian Indigenous Music Awards, Canadian Folk Awards, Leo Awards and Juno awards. He is inspired to create music that is rooted in his Indigenous culture, a hybrid of unique modern sounds with old world sounds that evoke the ancient spirit within.
Cultural Music
Tzo’kam means “chickadee” and “visitors are coming” in the Stl’atl’imx language. Flora Wallace and her family have always sung together but in 1997 they expanded their efforts to share the culture by performing, touring and recording. Under the direction of Russell Wallace with lead singer and family matriarch Flora Wallace, Tzo’kam works within their communities to teach, share and maintain a tradition kept alive by dedicated elders.
Dance
Tasha Faye Evans is a dance and theatre artist from a legacy of Coast Salish, Welsh, and European Jewish grandparents. Her work consists of a collection of collaborations and performances with national and international Indigenous artist. She has produced three festivals and created the first two of five house posts being raised along Port Moody’s Shoreline Trail as part of a lifelong exhibit.
Cultural Music
M’Girl is an ensemble of Indigenous women with stories and songs on the gifts received from Mother Earth. The message in the music is an emergence of cultural ideals and worldviews from their perspectives of Metis, Nê-heya-win, (Cree) Anishnaabe and Saulteaux (praire Anishnaabe) cultural backgrounds.
Music
Ostwelve aka Ronnie Dean Harris is a Stō:lo/St’át’imc/Nlaka’pamux multimedia artist. Over the years, he has worked on number of media projects, as an actor, composer and a lead character. Ronnie has been very active in creating and facilitating workshop programs for youth in media arts and hip-hop and in delivering programming around the concept of colonial relations.
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Pura Fé, Tuscarora/Taino Indigenous activist, singer-songwriter, and storyteller. A founding member of the Internationally renowned Native Women’s a cappella trio Ulali, Fé helped to create a movement throughout Indian Country. She is on many movie soundtracks, television commercials, toured world festivals and has been recognized with a French Grammy (L’Academy Charls Cros Award) for her music.
Music
Crystal Shawanda grew up on the Wikwemikong reserve on an island in Ontario, Canada. A singer / songwriter and guitarist in the country and blues genre, she’s release several albums that have won awards including Juno, Aboriginal People’s Choice Awards, Canadian Country Music Awards to name a few. Her rise to fame was documented in as six-part series Crystal: Living the Dream.
Music
Murray Porter’s music career has taken him all over the world for the last 40 years. He is a proud Mohawk man from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southern Ontario. His music was recognized with a 2012 JUNO Award for and was nominated at the 2019 Native American Music Awards for ‘Best Blues Recording’ and ‘Best Male Artist of the Year’.
Music
Art Napoleon is host and co-producer of APTN’s popular show Moosemeat & Marmalade, an international food series where he showcases Indigenous foods, traditional knowledge and outdoor cooking techniques. He facilitates cultural awareness workshops, tours regularly as a keynote speaker and also serves as a juror and board member on many arts, culture and heritage organizations across Canada.
Music
Clyde Roulette’s roots are in Manitoba where he was first inspired to play music. He is an Ojibway Indian who developed his ability to cross cultural and musical boundaries starting as a blues guitarist and crossing paths with Winnipeg musicians Gord Kidder and Barry Dunford to form a trio. He also performed with local guitar greats Brent Parkin, Colin James and Terry Barnett.
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Nyla Carpentier (Tahltan, Kaska, French, Scottish) is a multifaceted performing artist. She is a poet, a powwow dancer and workshop facilitator. Nyla performed her new solo Dissection of a… Mixed Heritage Woman (Victoria and Vancouver Fringe Festival). Drawing on her experience as someone of mixed heritage — her goal is to blend the past, present and create new works for the future.
Spoken Word
Tawahum Bige is a Łutselk’e Dene, Plains Cree poet and spoken word artist from unceded Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-waututh Territory (Vancouver). Bige has performed at several festivals and at over 50 different venues across Canada with his mixture of poetry & hip-hop. He has been published in over a dozen different lit journals & magazines and has three self-published chapbooks with poetry collections.
Spoken Word
Justin Percival is from the Nisga’a (Nish-ga) nation. His ancestry stems from the frog clan on his mom’s side, and eagle clan on his dads. As a part of a matriarchal society his birth tribe is the frog clan. Justin’s traditional name translates to “fearless”. He is a traditional dancer, spoken word artist, and performer.
Music, Spoken Word
Zofia Rose Musiej is a Polish and Carrier First Nation, singer/songwriter, poet and interdisciplinary performer. She is a slave to the muse, currently working on her first EP and first poetry manuscript, a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU (2019), and her poetry has been published in Prism, Room Magazine, and Salt Chuck City Review
Spoken Word
Jillian Christmas is a queer, afro-caribbean writer. She works as an artist, educator, consultant and current spoken word curator for the Vancouver Writers Fest. She has won numerous Grand Poetry Slam Championship titles and represented both Toronto and Vancouver at eleven national poetry events. She was the first Canadian to perform on the final stage of the Women of the World Poetry Slam.
Spoken Word
Zoey Pricelys Roy is a Cree-Dene Metis poet, emcee, educator, activist, filmmaker and author. She has performed on stages around the world and toured with a 94-Piece orchestra sharing original works of the late Zaccheus Jackson. She has been recognized by work and practice through numerous awards including the Queen Diamond Jubilee II Medal and the Indspire Award.
Music
Nimkish is a rising Indigiqueer pop artist based out of Vancouver, B.C. Her debut album charted #1 on the CiTR Discorder Charts the week of its release, and has since received national radio play on CBC Reclaimed. The second album, Damage Control, is a snapshot of the young artist’s life as she moved through the uncertainty brought by the last few years.
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Jordan Waunch is a Vancouver based Métis performing artist, public speaker, and emerging filmmaker and a graduate of BCIT’s Film And Television Production Program. He recently directed the project “Sisters Of Sorrow” through StoryHive’s first ever Indigenous Storyteller Edition and is currently producing an Indigenous language documentary supported by the Indigenous Screen Office and Netflix.
Music
Cheyanna Kootenhayoo AKA Kookum is a DJ, multi media maker and an open format DJ inspired by EDM and Hip Hop music. Kookum is currently performing virtually for online festivals and events, hosting online workshops and making beats in the studio. Kookum is also the music supervisor for a children’s TV series and works with the Indigenous Matriarchs 4 Media Lab to host a new podcast.
Music
Orene Askew, aka DJ O Show brings energy and expertise to every event she hosts and DJ’s. She is an inspirational speaker, an elected member of the Squamish Nation Chief & Council, a host of numerous high profile events and business and recipient of the 2015 Indigenous Business Award and the Stand Out Award from the Vancouver Pride Society.
Dance
Monday Blues is one of the newest members of Virago Nation. This fiery femme is an Afro-Indigenous (Togolese-Secwepemc) life coach, semi-retired showgirl, advocate & activist. Soon to be your new favourite day of the week, Monday plans to leave you weak in the knees.
Dance
Sierra Tasi Baker is a contemporary dancer and one of the choreographers for Butterflies in Spirit, an Indigenous dance group that raises awareness for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relations. She began performing as a professional fire and circus performance artist in 2013. She also teaches “Decolonizing Spectacle” workshops to further the conversations around Indigenous resistance in performance.
Burlesque
Sparkle Plenty is Vancouver’s glamedian, weirdlesquer and word-maker-upper who has been delivering beautifully bizarre burlesque acts for over 10 years! This fiery goddess is Cree with mixed heritage and is a proud sister of the first-ever all Indigenous burlesque group, Virago Nation. You can find her teasing and emceeing on stages and screens all over Vancouver, Toronto, Las Vegas, and more.
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