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We’re back! (Chomsky insisted on being in the announcement photo)Some updates from me and my four-legged Chief Strategy ...
05/25/2025

We’re back! (Chomsky insisted on being in the announcement photo)

Some updates from me and my four-legged Chief Strategy Officer:

This account is now (stepping into my full Squamish name!)

After months of strategic pause, we’re ready to share what we’ve been building.

This week, I’m announcing some major moves: Indigenous-only Liberation Labs rooted in deep cultural work, my next-level consulting offer designed to interrupt colonial systems at the root, and new infrastructure I’ve created to hold real transformation—not just talk. These aren’t updates—they’re invitations. If you’re ready to stop circling around change and start building it, I’ve mapped out ways for you to contribute to and benefit from this tuned-up ecosystem. Walk this way. This is redress in motion.

Chomsky and I have been deep in development mode. Ready to see what we’ve been cooking up?

The intersection of Indigenous resurgence and systems change is about to get very interesting.
Big energy incoming. 🪶

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It’s not easy to meet an organization’s goals around inclusion. How do you transform good intentions into positive impac...
03/05/2025

It’s not easy to meet an organization’s goals around inclusion.

How do you transform good intentions into positive impact while avoiding harms like cultural appropriation?

As a leader, you can model your commitment to truth and reconciliation by embarking on your learning and unlearning journey first. When you understand how to engage with Indigenous Peoples respectfully, you can better guide your organization toward positive change.

Indigenous Inclusion Academy offers bite-sized courses that will fit into your busy schedule. Each course can be completed in under 60 minutes, and you can review the material over 30 days to deepen your learning.

The content is also designed to be accessible to all cultural, academic, and professional backgrounds.

Are you ready to be a role model for learning?

Get started at the link in my bio:

[Image description: White text on a dark blue background asking “How do you transform good intentions into positive impact while avoiding harms like cultural appropriation?” with Coast Salish design elements.]


On our best days, we are holding on to medicine shared across millennia to help us contribute to a better world for the ...
06/21/2024

On our best days, we are holding on to medicine shared across millennia to help us contribute to a better world for the next generations.

We hold on through daily televised colonial violence, normalized Indigenous-specific inequity, and a myriad of internalized “disorders” because of the strength of our Ancestors. The circle we share with them will always be stronger than the circles we share with colonialism.

Our Ancestors held on while living through a cultural genocide including the outlawing of sacred ways and the theft of their children. I wonder what they would think of National Indigenous Peoples Day, to know we are celebrated today.

To know that today, we celebrate all they did to hold on to us. I’m so grateful for them every I see regalia or hear our language.

Sending love, care & celebration for all our Indigenous Relations! I see you holding on to your sacredness, and healing across generations to carry forward all you can,

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, in the hugest sense of the term!

Salmon skin armwear by my gifted cuz Sesemiya
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Support Indigenous Q***r artists this Indigenous Peoples/Pride Month and every month!! And may we suggest you start by b...
06/02/2024

Support Indigenous Q***r artists this Indigenous Peoples/Pride Month and every month!! And may we suggest you start by buying your tickets for this months Hotlatch: Indigenous Dance Party and/or buying a pay it forward ticket that will go towards an Indigenous person attending the amazing event free of charge ❤️ link in our bio

By special request, from our long-time client, we hosted our original award-winning Sínulkhay & Ladders workshop update...
05/17/2024

By special request, from our long-time client, we hosted our original award-winning Sínulkhay & Ladders workshop updated with infographics & exercises from our Decolonizing Practices seminar.

Thanks to NVCL for inviting us to customize a half-day session for your all-staff training, we loved it \o/ especially the sacred song, teachings and opening from Squamish Elder, Uncle Bucky 🪶❤️

If you’re looking for in-person or online decolonial facilitation, we have four seminars listed on our website, which we can customize to meet your needs. Reach out to Allison, our new Ops Director, to work with us. [email protected] or through our website, link in bio

Proud to be a ̱wú7mesh mother-daughter facilitation design team, and family (I’ve never identified as a single-mother, ...
05/12/2024

Proud to be a ̱wú7mesh mother-daughter facilitation design team, and family (I’ve never identified as a single-mother, we are a mother-daughter family.)

We each have other creative businesses, (she’s a DJ & stylist, I’m a designer), but we keep coming back together for Indigenous Inclusion by Nahanee Creative.

You need a high level of trust and synced energy to host as a team and I have to say that there’s nothing like sharing genes, Ancestors and a lifetime together to make social change work sacred.

This is us hosting the Unity Awards gala a few weeks back. So many powerful moments, witnessing her strength.

Mothering continues to be the best part of my life. I’m thankful everyday for the gift of our relationship and relations.

Feels so good to make sweet gifts for my community, my design skills have been focused on social change for almost eight...
05/11/2024

Feels so good to make sweet gifts for my community, my design skills have been focused on social change for almost eight years now… I miss making pretty graphics and products for our People.

Big love & appreciation for the organizers & volunteers at the 40th Annual Mother’s Day Powwow this weekend at Trout Lake on unceded Coast Salish Territory. You are healers & warriors, thanks for all you do and for allowing my team to contribute!

And, wishing all a peace-filled, honouring day for the many forms of motherhood shared to shape us ❤️🪶 ❤️

I recently left a harm-filled director position in a DEI department where I was tasked with increasing Indigenous hires....
05/01/2024

I recently left a harm-filled director position in a DEI department where I was tasked with increasing Indigenous hires. The role had no resources (team or budget), no authority (lots of accusations & micromanaging) and when I said this is not a safe environment, my expertise as a critical Indigenous scholar and decolonial facilitator of organizational transformation - the reasons I was hired - was dismissed.

Sound familiar? I know it does because I have listened and supported and been enraged by the stories my relatives have shared. The ongoing harm in the name of inclusion, reconciliation, and even my faves, equity and decolonization, is tucked deeply in the folds of big picture commitments to change.

The harms are in policy & process, language & need. Safety planning is surface, without a critical lens or awareness of what that means.

Hands up if you’ve been harmed by inclusion, we’re here for you!

Every game, book, seminar and media we’ve created is designed in response to the real harms we continue to endure, collectively as directors, coordinators, EAs, Elders, and so many other “______” fill in the blank, diversity roles.

Every transformative moment we facilitate, contributes to a vision for harm-free, truly equitable, critically planned for, inclusion.

With gratitude for all the organizations who really are activating critical ally ship and cultural safety. And, a big nudge to those who are ready to figure out what that means instead of denying they don’t.

We’ve been working with the Centre for Indigenous Health at and in this morning’s session, while discussing Colonial My...
10/06/2023

We’ve been working with the Centre for Indigenous Health at and in this morning’s session, while discussing Colonial Myths, the old stand-by “no one was living there” came up.

The legacy of Terra Nulius lives on through statements like those. The sentiment also erases Indigenous ways of sharing territory. It’s still ownership even if there’s no deed. And, just because there was never a subdivision, doesn’t mean it’s not Indigenous Territory.

So many colonial myths to dispel!

US bookings welcome, there are no borders on zoom, and we’re all impacted by colonial conditioning & systems.

Nahanee Creative is run by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh women, daughters and granddaughters of Residential School Survivors who live wit...
09/30/2023

Nahanee Creative is run by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh women, daughters and granddaughters of Residential School Survivors who live with the realities of international trauma every day, who are tired, burnt out and struggling with rental housing in our homelands.

Reposted from last year with an updated ask, inspired by Paisley’s closing words yesterday.

We work many hours each week to activate change, including these teaching graphics. We pay a huge emotional price for doing this work. We are not supported by any “Indigenous business” programs because we aren’t in the right cliques, we are busy struggling with the difficulties of actual Indigenous-life like high rent, complex health issues, generational trauma and lived inter-connection which means we are deeply connected through hard times - no tough love colonial bs.

Consider helping us pay our rents, this includes support for my dad, a residential school survivor who was homeless last summer and has never received support from the Indian Residential School Survivors Society or their 1-800 number that seems to help everyone feel better but us.

Want to practice reciprocity with Host Nations? Give directly to Host Nations members as your complicity math for the equity gained from owning unceded land? Help pay our rents, call it redress!

Start with us, https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=68P7XLP63HPX6 \o/

I’ve been critical of allyship. I’ve witnessed “justified” harm, including watching self-proclaimed allies gate-keep opp...
09/29/2023

I’ve been critical of allyship.

I’ve witnessed “justified” harm, including watching self-proclaimed allies gate-keep opportunities, steal cultural teachings, and exploit their proximity to Indigeneity.

At the same time, I know allies who embody reciprocity, who are willing to not be the centre and who make efforts to balance inequity like taking less pay or doing more labour than Indigenous contributors.

I designed Activating Critical Allieship with appreciation for the growing base of good relations that can only improve with critical awareness and activation. It was an honour to share this new workshop today as my contribution to the change I want to see in the world.

On this eve of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation, there are many mixed feelings. Grief, loss, shame & guilt as well as a growing backlash to the centring of what was done to us. The things we’ve just begun to speak about, that many don’t want to hear.

Fixing us, feeling sorry for us, blaming us and ignoring us has been the dominant culture was for a long time. We don’t need fixing or sympathy, we need critical allies.

Thanks to all who attended today! I hope you were fueled with language, framings and teachings to contribute to the change you want to see. Let me know!

If you missed it, watch for more public events!

We’re bringing back a few old fave on-demands, creating complimentary community content to support Decolonize First read...
09/28/2023

We’re bringing back a few old fave on-demands, creating complimentary community content to support Decolonize First readers and readying for monthly live events!

Right now, our Cultural Protocols, Empathy & Safety on-demand is available for $48 per view. Our Territorial Acknowledgments mini-course is up on our website, ready to purchase too!

The first chapter of the free on-demand Decolonize First course is up too. I’ll be updating the course every few weeks with with short audio lectures, text explainers and expanded resource links to support or reactivate your workbook journey.

Tickets for our 90-minute Re-activating Allyship, with a decolonial critical lens, are on sake until tomorrow (Friday) at 8am Pacific. We’ll see you on the zooms! Watch for news of more frequent live, online events!

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