Brigitte Demeter News Today

Kym Gouchie, a well-known Indigenous singer-songwriter from northern B.C., will share tunes off her new record at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre April 6.

Soon shell be speaking with language keepers and mentors from all across the province, beginning with those here on the traditional territory of the Lheidli Tenneh. "My inspiration truly was my late grandmother Mary Gouchie and just being an Indigenous person knowing that languages are such a vital part of our culture," she said. There are very few Lheidli language speakers left and Gouchie knows that even within that language there are different dialects and to preserve the language for fut...