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  • Eden Robinson talking about Haisla/Heiltsuk mythology (and Wayne's World).

    Eden Robinson Jes Battis 2008

  • 'First nations don't hunt for trophies,' said Heiltsuk chief Ross Wilson.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • 'First nations don't hunt for trophies,' said Heiltsuk chief Ross Wilson.

    A Real and Present Danger 2005

  • The Heiltsuk Tribal Council and others had sought the material because it deals with DFO's aboriginal fisheries strategy, or AFS.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARK HUME 2011

  • The Bella Bella Community School goes beyond collaboration; it is immersed in the Heiltsuk culture of Campbell Island, on the mid-coast of B.C. It is built right into the foundation - the school building resembles an eagle in flight, its wings formed by two lines of classrooms.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JUSTINE HUNTER 2011

  • The Heiltsuk won, in 1976, the right to take over their education system from Indian Affairs.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JUSTINE HUNTER 2011

  • The Heiltsuk Indian Band, under the Heiltsuk Tribal Council, will receive $99,654 in federal Skills Link funding, which will help eight youth facing employment barriers develop life and job skills to ease their transition to work or return to school.

    Marketwire - Breaking News Releases 2010

  • - write article on queer diasporas in the work of Haisla/Heiltsuk writer Eden Robinson (heavily revised from my M.A. thesis) - write article on Sylar and queer camp in "Heroes" for collection with Tauris -- hence, the pic

    What the hell happened? Jes Battis 2008

  • Harry Wilson of the Heiltsuk nation, kidnapped and sodomized by Christians at age six, and for nine years after, at the United Church's Alberni Indian residential school; a witness to the violent murder of friends and relatives; and the discoverer of a young girl's dead body on the grounds of the school; drugged and straight-jacketed for a year when he spoke of what he saw to the Principal, another child rapist, who has never gone to jail.

    Harry Wilson, Continued: Why There is No Healing and Reconciliation 2009

  • In Bella Bella on Campbell Island off the coast of British Columbia, 16-year-old Korin Humchitt attends the school run by the Heiltsuk First Nation.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed GLORIA GALLOWAY 2011

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