NameSake_ A filmed Journey towards Recognition, Reconciliation and Place
Roy L Hales /Cortes Currents - The radio version of this story opens with a short clip from the documentary NameSake in which Dr Evan Adams welcomes viewers to Tla-amin territory. Then he adds, "A lot of people who live here now don't know us. They forget that all of this used to be ours, and that this city is still in our territory." NameSake will be playing in the House of the Klahoose People, on Cortes Island, at 2 PM on Monday, June 29. It is about the Tla'amin People's connection to the ancestral village site that was taken away from them and renamed Powell River. Then they asked the…
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