Sharing Her Story: an Afternoon with Dakelh Elder and Residential School Survivor Jean Tremblay

Name: Sharing Her Story: an Afternoon with Dakelh Elder and Residential School Survivor Jean Tremblay
Start: 2025-11-29T14:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-29T15:00:00-08:00
Location: 2800 30th Ave, Vernon, BC V1T 8S3, Canada

Schedule

Sat Nov 29 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

2800 30th Ave, Vernon, BC V1T 8S3, Canada | Vernon, BC

Join us for a powerful afternoon of listening and learning. Attendance is limited, so please register.
Jean Tremblay is a Nak’azdli Whut’en Dakelh elder. Jean was born in 1946, and spent the first five years of her life living on the keyoh with her family, around Pinchi Lake in the land colonially known as Northwestern BC. At the age of 5 Jean was stolen from her family and sent to residential school at the Lejac Residential School run by the Catholic Church, 145 kilometres from her parents.
Jean is a knowledge keeper, and land defender who is currently fighting logging contractors and exploratory mining on her keyoh. Jean is one of the very few people who writes and speaks her language (Dakelh) fluently.
Visit the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's website or look for resources at your library to learn more about the true history of Canada.