Jess Housty

@heiltsukvoice

'Cúagilákv: Community agitator; mother; land-based educator; writer; Indigenist; unapologetically Haiłzaqv. I'm here for and .

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Joined December 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    10 Oct 2017

    Value my intellectual & emotional labour? You can always help to keep my lights on with a contribution here:

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    The more we make the committed effort to raise our children in, and surrounded by, indigenous systems, the stronger our children will become as Indigenous peoples.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    meeting communities where they are at ≠ maintaining status quo of systemic oppression & white supremacy meeting communities where they are at = being trauma informed, making space for discussions around liberation, being creative

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    19 hours ago
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  6. Jan 3

    “Just like mommy’s cedar hat!” —Noen’s response to his NatGeo mail. 😂

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 1

    It takes only one generation to lose a language in a family line. It takes only one determined generation to get it back.

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  8. Jan 1

    And that is my story of why kids are the best. /8

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  9. Jan 1

    The moments when kids show us we’re essentially obsolete — that they’ve got things under control — it’s honestly awesome. They’re so respectful and self-sufficient. It’s their space and they take care of it. Who needs a lock on a library door anyway? /7

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  10. Jan 1

    The garbage and recycling bins are overly full, and the furniture is a little askew, but they’ve been completely respectful of the space. Borrowing books and returning them. Hanging out where it’s warm. No idea that the library wasn’t technically “open.” /6

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  11. Jan 1

    Whoever closed up on Christmas Eve evidently forgot to lock the library. It’s been unlocked since — a little over a week. And the kids say they’ve been coming every day except Christmas Day. /5

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  12. Jan 1

    Today, our executive director popped down to the office to pick something up. And...the library was full of kids! /4

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  13. Jan 1

    We have a crowd of elementary kids who hang out at the library every day after school. So many that during the school year, we often hire seventh graders on rotation to “work” in the library after school to keep it tidy. /3

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  14. Jan 1

    So our nonprofit, , runs a library. Our office is attached to the library but it has a separate entrance. We also operate an adjacent cafe/gift shop, which was busy up until Christmas Eve but has been closed since. /2

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  15. Jan 1

    kids are the best: a Christmas story /1

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  16. Jan 1

    The highlight of my year, every year. youth learning from their homeland. 🌿

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  17. Dec 31

    As the calendar year turns over, wishing light and fulfillment to all those marking the occasion. I’m already excited about new year. 🌕 Counting down the moons until time!

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  18. Retweeted
    30 Dec 2018

    My conflict: "Stop telling your people to connect with land, you're only hurting them". Also me: I'm not telling them, I'm begging. Knowing that every interaction they have with land means they plant seeds, when they drop the berries they pick" The land needs us. We need land.

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  19. Retweeted
    26 Dec 2018

    My degree doesn’t make me qualified to speak on environmental and cultural issues pertaining to my people and this land; my ancestors do.

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  20. Retweeted
    27 Dec 2018

    There is a danger in equating intellectualism as only coming from academia. It reinforces the primitive trope of Native people. Many of our great leaders were intellectuals. Our ancestors were philosophers and scientists.

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    Please share. Missing Indigenous woman from the Hazelton area in B.C.

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