Nk'mip desert cultural center Tour

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:04]We're doing the self-guided tour on the resort.

[00:00:14]Flip. Do not touch. You got it.

[00:00:41]Anthony Walsh.

[00:00:44]>> Oh, gross. I've touched it.

[00:00:49]Stressed me right out.

[00:00:57]We have about 17% of my battery. So, I'll get as much as I can.

[00:01:11]His lip is terrifying.

[00:01:23]Teacher Anthony Walsh arrived on the Soyuse reserve in 1932 to teach at in day school. Walsh registered and respected culture and encouraged his students to explore their heritage. During his 11 years as a teacher, his students blossomed, creating works of art, performing Okugan songs, legends, and dances.

[00:01:50]The thing I was impressed the most was not the sincerity of the young actors and full costume masks, the haunting melodies of the songs, the graceful movements of the dancers, but a new light that appeared in the eyes of the parents and the old people. So they admit something that brought back memories of distant days when they held their head high and were ashamed of no one residential schools.

[00:02:51]Oh, I'm quite bored.

[00:03:04]Arch school today.

[00:03:23]Doesn't show who that is.

[00:03:43]That's a bear.

[00:04:03]Rock paintings.

[00:04:15]Do not touch you guys.

[00:04:25]That up there. That's what used to catch fish.

[00:04:34]A bear.

[00:04:37]Wonder where your ears.

[00:04:45]Oh, I didn't realize mural, the war period, present day Indian reserve.

[00:05:13]Let's see.

[00:05:35]Jerry M. Saunders It's so nice.

[00:05:52]Snakes up there. Oh, it's a frog. Hi, buddy.

[00:06:03]I don't see anything in here. Do you guys see anything?

[00:06:08]The great basin spadefoot tadpoles. Okay, it's in the water. Let's see if we can see it.

[00:06:23]>> Not really.

[00:06:32]Western skink.

[00:06:35]Where?

[00:06:39]Oh, there it is. Itty bitty little guy.

[00:06:45]>> So cute. Oh, hi baby.

[00:06:55]Oh, sorry.

[00:06:57]Here we go.

[00:07:01]>> It got crowded over there.

[00:07:09]I'm at 10%.

[00:07:15]Game stick game set. Oh, this is bone game.

[00:07:22]My bone game right there.

[00:07:55]Max.

[00:07:59]Brenda got these family some bead work.

[00:08:16]There's Brenda again.

[00:08:19]Those on the sides over here. They're earrings.

[00:08:22]Right there. It's a headband and a belt.

[00:08:32]leaving.

[00:08:48]It's last little exhibit here.

[00:08:51]This here is a turtle.

[00:08:56]It's also a rattle.

[00:09:00]>> I guess it was a turtle.

[00:09:06]>> That's like a mean way to say that.

[00:09:16]Meet former day school students and discover the full in day school art collection by exploring the website. The museum preserved its wonderful art collection for 35 years and has collaborated with the Indian band and the University of Victoria of Victoria in this unique Kira project funded by the social sciences and humanities research council of Canada. The virtual museum website documents the remarkable story of the inam day school.

[00:09:47]>> Wow.

[00:10:06]>> Yeah. And we're back to the art and the first exhibit.

[00:10:37]Oh, the air is cleared. Let's go back to the animals.

[00:10:42]I didn't get to see the other one.

[00:10:45]Sorry, that's hella loud. Tiger salamander, where are you? Where are you?

[00:10:53]Where are you?

[00:11:03]Okay.

[00:11:09]Like it's not meant to be. Look at the snake again.

[00:11:14]So cute. It's >> like a little snake.

[00:11:21]>> He loves skinnies.

[00:11:34]There's supposed to be a boa in here.

[00:11:40]>> I don't see.

[00:11:52]>> Oh, there is a door. Trying to find them.

[00:11:56]>> And he cute.

[00:11:59]>> I know. I keep loving. I have like He's cute. I have a little snake with arms.

[00:12:13]>> Here's our friend.

[00:12:27]Water is precious in the desert.

[00:12:41]We are still here.

[00:12:50]>> Go outside, guys.

[00:12:58]Okanagan territory.

[00:13:03]History of the Soyuse Reserve.

[00:13:09]The invasion of settlers in the late 1800s.

[00:13:16]Unequal justice.

[00:13:41]See if I can shade so you can read it.

[00:13:52]That's where we are.

[00:14:07]Dragon flies. Oh, I hope you can see them. I love dragon flies.

[00:14:23]Water in dry places each day.

[00:14:28]Many desert animals visit ponds, streams, and lakes for water and shade to or to feed on plants and animals that live near water. Spay foot toads, frogs, dragonflies, and other creatures need water to reproduce. Look in the water for their eggs, juvenile forms like tadpoles and larvae. Lakes and marshes provide Okonagan people with important plants used for food and technology.

[00:14:49]Look in the water for their babies.

[00:14:54]No, thank you.

[00:14:56]Be alert. Watch for rattlesnakes. That's terrifying.

[00:15:02]There's a tepee. Remember I showed you guys earlier, but I couldn't get very close now that we're in the actual area.

[00:15:16]Danger. Keep off a pit house.

[00:15:21]Winter dwellings and for the and for the Okonogan people in the winter time is for sharing our oral history. Although traditional aren't meant to last forever, we wanted to build this one to stand the test of time and it was built to national building code standards. This new is a space where we can come together as a community to practice our traditions once again.

[00:15:45]It's a pit house.

[00:15:50]Oh, it's back.

[00:15:53]Just joking. Oh, look. We're all in the tepee. How cool is that?

[00:16:01]I'll give you guys the experience.

[00:16:07]There it is.

[00:16:11]>> Can you hear the songs?

[00:16:16]Usually there'd be a fire right there.

[00:16:37]That movie's going to start in two minutes. Okay.

[00:16:42]>> Okay. I'll be right there.

[00:16:48]>> Thank you.

[00:16:51]No smoking. Yeah, it's very dry here.

[00:16:54]Welcome to our desert. Our land is precious. Please take care. Only photographs. Oops.

[00:17:01]Sorry, guys.

[00:17:09]Sage.

[00:17:11]We're going to find out what's over here.

[00:17:25]Watch your step. The surface is uneven.

[00:17:27]You got it.

[00:17:30]I thought there was going to be a lot more water here. Down in the valley, we have it's like a rainforest over there.

[00:17:36]I say like it is a rainforest. So being over here is a very different experience.

[00:17:42]I heard an animal.

[00:17:45]I'm sorry for scaring you.

[00:17:47]Whatever it was.

[00:18:05]Let's check out the view.

[00:18:23]Stay on the gravel. You got it. I don't want to be where snakes are.

[00:18:31]Not that I don't like snakes, but rattlesnakes sound scary.

[00:18:44]flower.

[00:18:49]I love daisies.

[00:19:02]L trail village.

[00:19:06]Oh, I'm sorry, guys. I think I'm going back. It's hot over here.

[00:19:19]Okay, you can see how you get into the pit house right here.

[00:19:38]Yeah, I know. My internet was a little bit spotty over there, but that's where the is making sure you guys could see it.

[00:20:23]Hopefully you can read that.

[00:20:26]There's a lot of glare.

[00:20:31]Here's the other side of the tepee.

[00:20:39]I just heard something in the bush again.

[00:20:50]Where people check out what's on this side.

[00:21:15]Summer homes. Oh, it's explaining about the tepee. That's Did you guys know that each spring and summer, families raise their teepeees in many places as they move through the Okonogan territory, gathering food, fish, and for hunting. Oh, and hunting.

[00:21:38]My apologies.

[00:21:42]Summer homes amper.

[00:22:04]It's all the native animals around here.

[00:22:08]Oh, that's little guy.

[00:22:19]Did you see anything?

[00:22:22]I think beehive.

[00:22:28]Oh, and that's where they come in and have a little wasp right there.

[00:22:36]That's cute.

[00:22:39]Get the dirt on it.

[00:22:42]Burring owl.

[00:22:44]What are you?

[00:22:47]Oh my god.

[00:22:53]The soil. The mouse in the bush. Hi, buddy.

[00:23:04]Badgerhead.

[00:23:14]Now we're back.

[00:23:16]All right, friends.

[00:23:18]We'll check it over here, but that might be the end of it.

[00:23:22]We just walked all around.

[00:23:30]Snakes.

[00:23:34]Go for a snake.

[00:23:37]somewhere.

[00:23:40]Oh, no. I can't I can't tell.

[00:23:48]Are you up there?

[00:23:51]Can you even see? I'm sorry.

[00:24:01]Western rattlesnake somewhere.

[00:24:10]This one's way harder to find than the toad was.

[00:24:18]you think?

[00:24:21]No.

[00:24:25]Oh, here we go.

[00:24:36]Still felt like a very hard ware.

[00:24:41]Oh, what was that?

[00:24:46]No, not interest. Interesting.

[00:24:59]Can't see anything.

[00:25:02]Oh, no. There it is.

[00:25:06]Can you see it? Scales. It's way bigger than I thought.

[00:25:11]I was looking for an itty bitty thing.