Alert Bay

If you don't do it, it won't get done.

That was Garrett T Willie from his second album, Bill's Cafe, named after his grandfather's pool hall cafe in Albert Bay, British Columbia.

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The, the, the conversation which kind of st- it stemmed out of a conversation with my grandmother, uh, on my dad's side, Gwen Harry, um, and she was actually...

We were doing an interview with her, uh, for a documentary around her experience in residential school, uh, up in Alert Bay.

And she, through a lot of these conversations, uh, she, she had mentioned that, uh, Hannah, our daughter, 'cause she had just been born, uh, was saying, "Hey, Lauren, James, you know that your daughter is actually the seventh generation in our family since European contact?" And for me, that immediately clicked because I was just like, first of all, that...

I never really put that together in my mind, like how could that even be? It was a really powerful mo- powerful moment of realization as part of my journey as an artist, but also being a new dad and just understanding, kind of like positioning myself and my importance in life is that it, I have this new sort of responsibility, uh, not as just an artist, but as somebody bringing a new soul, a new mind into this world, that they need to be proud of who they are, because I definitely was not proud of who I was when I was a child.

And here we are being p- paraded through Vancouver as this sort of, uh, thing to look at.

And that's really the culmination of this journey that I have personally been in, because what makes this even more complicated for me as an artist is that I am also a Kwakwaka'wakw.

I'm Namgis on my grandmother's side from Alert Bay.

And we did practice carving totem poles, but we only practiced carving them in northern communities, and we're here on Coast Salish territory.

We went to Santula via the ferry and spent the day there.

And then we spent another day in Alert Bay, which was really cool too.

So got to see some different stuff.

The ferries weren't all that long.

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I'm a speech-language pathologist based out of Vancouver, uh, and my role as an SLP is traveling to rural and remote communities across BC.

Um, I'm currently sitting with one of my coworkers in Alert Bay right now, um, participating in the podcast.

And so I do really want to acknowledge today just the, the speech-language assistants that I get to work with and how much, um, amazement that I have of the skills that they have gained over the years when I am only there for a very short period of time, and how determined they are to provide the support to the kids, uh, in the best way that they possibly can.

So yeah, really would like to give space to the, the speech-language assistants that I have in my, my very direct [laughs] day-to-day.

Okay.

Um, uh, I'm working in the Namgis First Nation school.

We are, um, an independent school residing in Alert Bay, BC.

Our school is really a, a community school.