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Christine Jack, a spiritual leader among the St'at'imc people, gives an update from Ulluisc where she has been living on the land protecting the territory from further industrial devastation. facebook.com/reoccupationofjunctioncreek/ voicesbook.tumblr.com/
“I feel in awe as to the tremendous life that I get to be among because we quite honestly forget that a tree has a life, that a piece of grass, that a dandelion, that the kinnikinnick is just so alive. Being a caretaker is creating a system for me to actually coexist with them.”
-Christine Jack, Ulluisc 2016
Christine Jack is a two-spirit St’at’imc life-giver and spiritual leader. In March of 2015 she was asked by her Elders to protect a place called Ulluisc. Since that moment, Christine became caretaker and made Ulluisc her permanent home. Ulluisc, “a place for the people to gather”, is high in the mountains nestled in the Yalakom Valley and is an ancestral village site where the St’at’imc, Tsilcotin and Secwemc people came together. The forests, creeks, and mountains of Ulluisc are a place where medicine grows, where the pines stand next to the cotton woods and shade the alders; where bears raise their cubs, deer find their shelter and eagles build their nests. The last time there was clear cutting in Ulluisc was 2015 the logging company responsible, intended to continue cutting through 2016 and beyond. Christine Jack has halted their progress, and as long as she remains it will never happen again.
For more information about Christine and Ulluisc go to the voice for the voiceless fb page and check out our Update.
“The deer is important to me because I’m a hunter. It has become a really powerful, powerful medicine for me.”
“The Elders asked me then if I had time to put aside to do this stand here for the village, the old village our ancestral village as well as for the animals out here because the logging is tremendously huge in our valleys.”
-Christine Jack, Ulluisc 2016
Christine Jack is a two-spirit St’at’imc life-giver and spiritual leader. In March of 2015 she was asked by her Elders to protect a place called Ulluisc. Since that moment, Christine became caretaker and made Ulluisc her permanent home. Ulluisc, “a place for the people to gather”, is high in the mountains nestled in the Yalakom Valley and is an ancestral village site where the St’at’imc, Tsilcotin and Secwemc people came together. The forests, creeks, and mountains of Ulluisc are a place where medicine grows, where the pines stand next to the cotton woods and shade the alders; where bears raise their cubs, deer find their shelter and eagles build their nests. The last time there was clear cutting in Ulluisc was 2015 the logging company responsible, intended to continue cutting through 2016 and beyond. Christine Jack has halted their progress, and as long as she remains it will never happen again.
For more information about Christine and Ulluisc go to the voice for the voiceless fb page and check out our Update.
“Our people have been pulled away from their natural place. Pulled into a place so deep, generations deep now that they don’t understand what it’s really going to take to return”
“I hope that people find that they are worth healing.”
-Christine Jack, Ulluisc 2016
Christine Jack is a two-spirit St’at’imc life-giver and spiritual leader. In March of 2015 she was asked by her Elders to protect a place called Ulluisc. Since that moment, Christine became caretaker and made Ulluisc her permanent home. Ulluisc, “a place for the people to gather”, is high in the mountains nestled in the Yalakom Valley and is an ancestral village site where the St’at’imc, Tsilcotin and Secwemc people came together. The forests, creeks, and mountains of Ulluisc are a place where medicine grows, where the pines stand next to the cotton woods and shade the alders; where bears raise their cubs, deer find their shelter and eagles build their nests. The last time there was clear cutting in Ulluisc was 2015 the logging company responsible, intended to continue cutting through 2016 and beyond. Christine Jack has halted their progress, and as long as she remains it will never happen again.
For more information about Christine and Ulluisc go to the voice for the voiceless fb page and check out our Update.
“Oh the mountains, they are just like the walls to my home.”
“I want my grandchildren to only know the grandma that lives on the mountain. That’s a beautiful thing”
“I want to be able to heal the people so our generations get all the wonderful support and medicine from each other and we’ll thrive again.”
-Christine Jack, Ulluisc 2016
Christine Jack is a two-spirit St’at’imc life-giver and spiritual leader. In March of 2015 she was asked by her Elders to protect a place called Ulluisc. Since that moment, Christine became caretaker and made Ulluisc her permanent home. Ulluisc, “a place for the people to gather”, is high in the mountains nestled in the Yalakom Valley and is an ancestral village site where the St’at’imc, Tsilcotin and Secwemc people came together. The forests, creeks, and mountains of Ulluisc are a place where medicine grows, where the pines stand next to the cotton woods and shade the alders; where bears raise their cubs, deer find their shelter and eagles build their nests. The last time there was clear cutting in Ulluisc was 2015 the logging company responsible, intended to continue cutting through 2016 and beyond. Christine Jack has halted their progress, and as long as she remains it will never happen again.
For more information about Christine and Ulluisc go to the voice for the voiceless fb page and check out our Update.
“The tree is like our brothers and sisters they are the standing ones. You know, they have witnessed far more than we have”
“They don’t interfere with one another they find a way to exist among each other.”
“Both are just trying to reach the sun. They are trying to have that relationship with the elements around them”
-Christine Jack, Ulluisc 2016
Christine Jack is a two-spirit St’at’imc life-giver and spiritual leader. In March of 2015 she was asked by her Elders to protect a place called Ulluisc. Since that moment, Christine became caretaker and made Ulluisc her permanent home. Ulluisc, “a place for the people to gather”, is high in the mountains nestled in the Yalakom Valley and is an ancestral village site where the St’at’imc, Tsilcotin and Secwemc people came together. The forests, creeks, and mountains of Ulluisc are a place where medicine grows, where the pines stand next to the cotton woods and shade the alders; where bears raise their cubs, deer find their shelter and eagles build their nests. The last time there was clear cutting in Ulluisc was 2015 the logging company responsible, intended to continue cutting through 2016 and beyond. Christine Jack has halted their progress, and as long as she remains it will never happen again.
For more information about Christine and Ulluisc go to the voice for the voiceless fb page and check out our Update.
The voice of Christine Jack, a Two Spirit St’at’imc spiritual leader who was asked by her Elders to protect Ulluisc from Aspen Planers, a company which has already been responsible for multiple clear cut blocks on the territory. Ulluisc, which is the ucwalmicw name for the territory means “a place for the people to gather” as it is an ancestral village site where the Secwepemc, Tsilhqot’in and St’at’imc people met and traded. Christine has taken this stand in order to protect the ancestral village site as well as allow the land to heal as it is home to a diversity of life.
This is the latest update from Christine, Caretaker of Ulluisc recorded during our last visit in May of 2016.
If you are interested in making a monetary donation cheques can be made out to Christine Jack and mailed to:
PO Box 1188 Lillooet bc V0K 1V0
In June, Christine is seeking supporters to assist with the building of an ishtkin (pit house). If you are interested in helping out supporters are welcome on the territory. See the Ulluisc Update we posted for more info.
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