UTSAM-WITNESS BLOG
Launching our pre-sale phase for the Book
By
Katherine Dodds, February 23, 2012
Uts'am Community gathered at Roundhouse January 15, 2012 for a Witness ceremony to mark this new phase of our work. Featuring the premiere of our book trailer!
We're now fundraising for our book coming in 2013, published by Douglas & McIntyre. Please Join us!
Please support our work by buying the book in advance, and consider adding a contribution to our eco-printing fund. Proceeds go the Uts'am Witness Society to be used for Fair Trade eco-printing of the book, engaging the community, expanding this website, and supporting exhibitions of the photo artwork featured in the book.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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Uts'am/Witness Project
For ten years, thousands of people – artists, loggers, government officials, tourists, youth at risk, families, and children – made the journey from Vancouver to Sims Creek in the Elaho Valley, as participants in the Uts’am/Witness project. These weekend journeys to threatened areas of “wilderness”, hosted by Squamish Nation Hereditary Chief Bill Williams, telasemkin-siyam, brought people into direct contact with ceremony and with nature; with Squamish stories, dance, games, art, and opportunities to hear from elders, scientists, conservationists, and artists from native and non-native traditions.
HOW IT BEGAN
In 1996, the Randy Stoltmann Wilderness Area (named by WCWC) was threatened by logging. Environmental activists who wanted to protect the area found the need to consult the Squamish Nation and its claims, history & stewardship of the Elaho Valley. It’s a remote area and difficult to reach. Only experience of the land will lead people to protect it. They required knowledge of its history, its place in indigenous culture, its geology, plant life, animals... All of which led to building bridges between indigenous and settler cultures, city and rural people, elders and youngsters, scientists and artists, loggers and activists, and to vehicles working their way up the long logging road to Sims Creek every summer.
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