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It was recently announced that Ali Kazmi’s film, Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence, was awarded People's Choice at the 2022 Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival. It is also the only Canadian feature film chosen for this year’s prestigious International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). For the past 20 years, Planet in Focus has used film as a

Autonomous Sinixt are hosting a film tour through the Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ (homeland) between May 12 and May 15. The screening times are as follows: Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. Arrow Lake Theatre Nakusp, BC Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m. The Royal Theatre Trail, BC Saturday, May 14 at 4 p.m. Civic Theatre Nelson, BC Saturday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Vallican Whole Community Centre Winlaw,

Autonomous Sinixt are hosting a film tour through the Sinixt təmxʷúlaʔxʷ (homeland) between May 12 and May 15. The screening times are as follows: Thursday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. Arrow Lake Theatre Nakusp, BC Friday, May 13 at 7 p.m. The Royal Theatre Trail, BC Saturday, May 14 at 4 p.m. Civic Theatre Nelson, BC Saturday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Vallican Whole Community Centre Winlaw,

Many people know the area between New Denver and Kaslo, in the Central Selkirk Mountains of BC, as the Highway 31A corridor. For many centuries before that, it was a corridor for animals, plants, and the Autonomous Sinixt, the Indigenous People of this region who were and continue to be stewards of the area. They had a different name. “Piq kiʔláwnaʔ[ [pek k-lawna] is named

It may come as a shock to many that a people can be declared extinct in Canada. But this is precisely what happened to the Arrow Lakes people who, rejecting this colonial name, refer to themselves as the Sinixt. In 1956, an order-in-council was passed by the government of Canada declaring the Arrow Lakes Band to be extinct under the Indian Act. The international border between Canada and the United States partitions the traditional territory of the Sinixt, most of which lies in the southeast i...