The Tk̓emlúps Education Department Summer 2021 Newsletter is out!  Highlights include program updates, student achievements, and more. We’d like to thank you for taking the time to keep up to date with our programs and services as well as celebrating the...

FNHA has identified TteS as a First Nations community that qualifies for the FNHA Air Purifier Support Program. Due to limited quantities, priority and distribution of the purifiers will be based on the following FNHA eligibility: must be a TteS member living...

July 15, 2021 – Kamloops. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc calls on people worldwide to bear witness to a very important truth about Indigenous People and Canada. Indian Residential Schools have been referred to as a historic dark chapter – but Indigenous people very much live...

INVITATION TO MEDIA TO ATTEND IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY Date and Time: July 15, 2021, 9-11 am Pacific Location: Virtual and In person In person: must be pre-registered – DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM Coast Kamloops Hotel & Conference Centre Ballroom ABC, 1250 Rogers...

Q’wemtsín Health Society (QHS) and Sk’elep School of Excellence have been working in partnership on a food sovereignty program and are thrilled to be able to use products from that project to help feed evacuees from local forest fires. “The need for food sovereignty...

  From the Office of the Chief – On behalf of Council, I just wanted to reach out to membership regarding the extreme fire risk we are currently facing.  The severe heat remains, with no end in sight.  There were several fires last night and today on TteS lands...

Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc Chief and Council have past a motion to postpone ceremonies and events surrounding Le Estcwéy̓ for the week of June 28 through July 5, 2021  due to the extreme heat wave and for the safety of all If anyone wants to access TteS during any...

  From the Office of the Chief – On behalf of Council, I wanted to provide membership an update.   Chief and Council’s top priority is always for the health and safety of community members and for those who wish to visit our monument at the Kamloops Indian...

Meteorologists are calling for a “dangerous long duration heat wave.” Almost all of B.C. is now under this heat warning. Please note that these dangerously high temperatures are forecasted to last for at least the next two weeks. Daytime highs are...

June 24, 2021, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc – As Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief and Council, we would like to openly acknowledge the horrific truth that Cowessess First Nation, survivors and intergenerational survivors of the former Marieval Indian Residential School are...