ABOUT OUR LAND

We, at Mount Brennan Lodge, would like to acknowledge that our cabin is built on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of Sinixt Peoples, who were declared extinct for the purposes of Canada’s Indian Act in 1956. However, the Sinixt continue to live in diaspora in both Canada and the USA. More specifically, our cabin is in the heart of the Piq kiʔláwnaʔ, named after and home of the white grizzly, sacred to the Sinixt People. We are committed to giving back in ways that honor and support the Sinixt. Therefore we stand in solidarity with their project of rewilding the Piq kiʔláwnaʔ and restoring the ecological integrity of this area, as the mountains and intact forests, especially old growth forests, provide and purify water and play a key role in buffering climate change. We make this acknowledgment to show our respect for the təmxʷulaʔxʷ (homeland) and Sinixt Nation and consider it important that all our guests show the same respect. In that sense, we strongly encourage minimal use of any form of mechanized and fossil-fuel burning vehicules, encouraging our guests to carpool to our destination and favor hiking to sledding. We feel privileged and grateful to be here, and invite those reading this to explore their own relationship to this territory, that extends from North of the Grand Bend on the Columbia River, to the height of the Monashee Range in the west, and east to the height of the Purcell Range. You may find more information and resources in this regard on the website of the Autonomous Sinixt (sinixt.org) and of the Blood of Life Collective (bloodoflifecollective.org) 

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