{"id":416,"date":"2020-06-22T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/?p=416"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T22:05:49","slug":"national-indigenous-peoples-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/2020\/06\/22\/national-indigenous-peoples-day\/","title":{"rendered":"National Indigenous Peoples Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all had a wonderful National Indigenous Peoples Day yesterday!<\/p>\n<p>See below for a message from our Elders, Elder Latash Nahanee and Elder Roberta Price, on this day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U2whoWMyqnY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not quite sure what Indigenous means? Watch below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CISeEFTsgDA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And did you know??<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Since 1996, National Indigenous Peoples Day has been held on June 21, the<br \/>\nsummer solstice and the longest day of the year.<br \/>\n\u2022 According to Statistics Canada, there are over 60 Indigenous languages in<br \/>\nCanada.<br \/>\n\u2022 In the 2016 census by Statistics Canada, over 1.6 million people in Canada<br \/>\nidentified as Indigenous, making up 4.9 per cent of the national population.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 British Columbia alone is home to 60% of Indigenous languages in Canada. In our<br \/>\nprovince there are 34 distinct languages involving 61 dialects.<br \/>\n\u2022 Not all Indigenous peoples do Pow Wows, potlatches, smudges or sweats.<br \/>\n\u2022 There are 634 recognized bands in Canada and 3,100 Reserves. The band refers<br \/>\nto the people and the reserve refers to the land.<\/p>\n<p>I have so much I want to share with you, but I also know that you can do some research on your own! \ud83d\ude42 So, I will leave you with one last link&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Watch below for a powerful documentary about 12 year-old twins who will cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gem.cbc.ca\/media\/short-docs\/season-1\/episode-83\/38e815a-0105482e141\">Oshkikishikaw: A New Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the day and keep researching and reading&#8230;feel free to share in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Hossack \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all had a wonderful National Indigenous Peoples Day yesterday! See below for a message from our Elders, Elder Latash Nahanee and Elder Roberta Price, on this day. Not quite sure what Indigenous means? Watch below&#8230; And did you know?? \u2022 Since 1996, National Indigenous Peoples Day has been held on June 21, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/clinton-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}