The Wei Wai Kum Nation has launched a re-designed website. The new www.weiwaikum.ca site actually hosts two, audience-specific websites: one for members and one for the general public. “The idea is to make it as easy as possible for people to find the information they’re looking for,” said Communications Coordinator Stephanie Slater, who managed the… 

Wei Wai Kum artist and councilor Curtis Wilson is one of three island artists selected by TimberWest to participate in its First Nation Cultural Art Showcase Program. The program recognizes and supports three First Nation artists representing their major language group on Vancouver Island. It commissions the artists to design, create and showcase their cultural art… 

Band members Jesse Shade and James Quatell participated in a planting ceremony at the new Comox hospital June 23. The event at the Comox Valley campus of the new North Island Hospital celebrated the garden of traditional plans and medicinal herbs that has been created at the Comox campus and that will be created next… 

A new totem pole that was raised and blessed on the grounds of the Museum at Campbell River in May marks the completion of a circle for a family of Laichwiltach carvers from the Wei Wai Kum Nation. The pole was carved by Bill Henderson and his nephew Junior Henderson. It was commissioned to replace… 

The Wei Wai Kum First Nation is sponsoring two workshops July 6 and 7 with Cultural and Wellness Leader Andrea Cranmer. Called “Empowering our Village, Awaken Your Spirit”, they will focus on spiritual laws such as Maya’ xala: respecting self, others, and the environment. Andrea, a member of the ‘ Namgis First Nation in Alert…