Vanderhoof Centennial Reconciliation Event: Screening of Saik’uz and Settlers

On Sunday afternoon, March 8, the GNC hosted a screening of the video recording of the 2011 production of Saik’uz and Settlers: A Weave of Local History at the Grand Reo Theatre.

Forty community members came out to the event, many of them families, and enjoyed an afternoon of popcorn, reminiscing, and conversation about local histories and reconciliation.

The event was opened and closed by drumming from Melanie Labatch and her family.

The screening was followed by bannock and small group discussions, facilitated by lawyer Julie Daum and writer Evan J, exploring reconciliation in our communities. After the discussions, the audience was invited to make a note of one reconciliACTION goal they could accomplish in 2026, and they were asked to attach it to an umusdi (a moose hide stretcher with a mock-hide). The umusdi then floated around Vanderhoof throughout 2026, with its first home being Wallace Studios.

Such a successful event could now have been possible without support from event sponsors:

• Chuck’s Catering
• Integris Credit Union
• Westech Diesel
• Rich’s Saw Sales
• Westline Ford
• Nechako Healthy Community Alliance