Austdone Gallery

Our gallery is all about Northwest Coast Indigenous art, culture, history and small factoids

[Jody Vance @jodyvance]

FULLY restore Kitsilano Pool to its pre-COVID glory is on the table tomorrow. HELP #FREEKITSPOOL from restrictions, sessions and online reservations - return access to communities, spontaneous swimmers, kids, seniors…. Email [email protected] TODAY!

[Austdone Gallery @AustdoneGallery]

@jodyvance @ParkBoard Please give some love to New Brighton pool, same issues at that location.

[Khelsilem @Khelsilem]

Plant names, animal words, and the linguistic evidence that points to the coastal origins of the Salish language family.

Read my latest writing about What Proto-Salish Vocabulary Reveals About Indigenous History in Canada and the US:

🔗 https://t.co/L9gzwggfzN

[Jody Vance @jodyvance]

Time to hire and train all of the lifeguards we will need to FULLY REOPEN Kits Pool in 2026. No excuses. Reopen The People’s Pool. No schedules and Covid era closures. No more online booking. @ParkBoard - #FREEKITSPOOL or be VOTED OUT. @KenSimCity

[Jody Vance @jodyvance]

Hey 👋🏻 @ParkBoard - just a reminder to #FREEKITSPOOL IN 2026 or be VOTED OUT. No excuses. Lift all Covid era restrictions and return to first come, first served! None of the “windows” for swimming. Just OPEN it. As it was meant to be. @KenSimCity

[Gregor Robertson @gregorrobertson]

Canada’s first Inuit-led university will open its main campus in Arviat, Nunavut, created and governed by Inuit through Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. The federal government has pledged up to $50 million in funding to support the university’s development, alongside major contributions from Inuit partners and philanthropic organizations.

This partnership helps advance Inuit self-determination in education, while expanding access to post-secondary learning rooted in language, culture, and community.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Today on Active History, we are launching a new, year-long series, Indian Act 150, looking at the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. As part of the introduction to the series, I offer some thoughts on the history and historiography of the Indian Act: https://t.co/DALdHuFe1i

[April Huggett @AprilHuggett]

I am a Canadian medic in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

For 13 months, I served as a nurse.

I gave injections, wrapped knees, bandaged wounds, cleaned blood, steadied shaking hands. I did the work that needed to be done, every day, without complaint.

Today, I am a combat medic.

I love Ukraine deeply. I love its people, their resilience, their humor in the darkest moments, their refusal to kneel.

I love a nation that has been attacked, bombed, and terrorized and still chooses dignity, courage, and life.

I hate russia for what it has done here.

I hate its lies, its cruelty, its complete disregard for human life.

I hate that it invades, destroys, and then pretends to be the victim.

There is nothing noble in this war from their side: only violence and theft.

Ukraine is not asking for power.
Ukraine is not asking for revenge.
Ukraine is asking for freedom.

The freedom to live.
The freedom to exist.
The freedom to raise children without air raid sirens.

That is all Ukrainians have ever wanted.

I am proud, so profoundly proud, to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

To stand with a country fighting not just for itself, but for the idea that borders matter, truth matters, and freedom is worth defending.

Ukraine will be free.
And I will stand here as long as it takes.

🇨🇦 🇺🇦

#Support93 #SupportUkraine #Canada

[UBCIC @UBCIC]

"UBCIC raises our hands to the survivors, elders, and leaders for their strength in retelling the extremely traumatic stories of what happened to children at St. Augustine’s Residential School, and to the investigators for documenting and sharing evidence" https://t.co/a7NrSLv3Lt

[Benjamin Kucher @TruthInTheSoil]

1/ In my last thread, I spoke about Residential School denialism and why it’s not “debate” but violence.

This is a follow-up, because the denialist attacks have only reinforced the point: confronting this hate is not optional.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

As a BC historian, I have a responsibility to point out that "Billboard Chris" here, with half a million followers, gets British Columbia's history wrong. In fact, the creation of BC in the 1850s - an act of colonial dispossession - was straight-up theft of Indigenous lands.

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

For years, residential school denialists have demanded "proof," despite church and state records already confirming 4000+ residential school deaths. Disrespectfully, they say: "show me the bodies!" Well, Deninu Kųę́ First Nation have now exhumed remains: https://t.co/IhfKsGnnfS

[Sean Carleton @SeanCarleton]

Breaking: the team investigating the Kuper Island Residential School in BC has confirmed 171 children deaths at the institution, 50 more than previously known. As a residential school historian and someone fighting residential school denialism, here's a 🧵 https://t.co/ITGYoFLDJv

[Native American Pride @native_am_pride]

This map should be included in every history book...

History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It’s not yours for you to erase or destroy. ❤️

[Tanya Talaga @TanyaTalaga]

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day! This is the U.S. cover of The Knowing - the book will be available widely, end of July, wherever you buy your books. I wrote a new foreword for the U.S. edition, on Indian Boarding Schools and the push for a commission to investigate the schools. @HarperCollins #theknowing

[The Accidental HIV Activist @AccidentalHiv]

Lenacapavir has been approved as a twice yearly PrEP option. A real breakthrough in HIV prevention. But without access, it means nothing.
Read my latest blog on the need for urgent and equitable rollout.
https://t.co/AU1YXPn5A0

#HIV #Lenacapavir #UequalsU #HIVPrevention #Access

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Many Canadians know of The Group Of Seven, but have you heard of the Indigenous Group of Seven?
Formally known as the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation, it formed in 1973, with seven Indigenous artists to promote Indigenous art.
These are the artists.

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[First Nations @FNDI303]

For more than two decades, 2024 Luce Indigenous Knowledge Fellow Ernestine Hayes (Tlingit) has blazed trails as an award-winning Native storyteller and a tenured professor. Find out what Hayes means when she says, “Let’s be human together:" https://t.co/phbl2GgjYm

[First Nations @FNDI303]

Join First Nation to support tribes and Native-led orgs developing new generations of Native American language speakers, and establish infrastructure and models for Native language immersion programs that may be replicated throughout Indian Country: https://t.co/uUomHdBGTX