Tla'amin Nation held a ceremony for the opening of the Ɂəms ʔayɛ (Our House) Cultural Centre on National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, 2025. Watch a video of the festivities by Andrew Bradley below.
“This Cultural Centre is two decades in the making and essential to the survival of Tla’amin ways of knowing and being," stated hegus John Hackett, on Tla'amin's website prior to the event. "Our language, laws, and way of life come from this land, and it’s our responsibility to uphold the relationships that we have sustained for thousands of years. Ɂəms ʔayɛ is going to be a teaching ground and a place to transmit ʔəms taʔow (our teachings) and to prepare the next generation of Tla’amin people to carry on our sacred responsibilities.”
The centre has a feast hall, language lab, museum, traditional food processing facility, gardens, a smokehouse and a carving shed.
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