Stqeeye’ Learning Society

The Stqeeye’ Learning Society is thrilled to announce Mi tse’ t’akw’ (Coming Home), a once-in-a-generation fund-raising campaign that will bring Quw’utsun (Cowichan) elders back to their traditional territory in Xwaaqw’um (Burgoyne Bay) for the first time in 150 years. The community of Salt Spring Island is already coming together to support Stqeeye’s acquisition of an extraordinary 10-acre property adjacent to Xwaaqw’um that is uniquely suited as a home base to expand their on-going wetlands restoration work, their P’hwulhp (Garry Oak) restoration project, and their Youth on the Land program, which reconnects youth with the land in a process that heals both, at a time when both are in distress. The total goal of the campaign is $1,929,000, including just under $1 million for the land, and the rest to fund renovations, develop the land and launch an associated social enterprise. Foundations and private donors have already stepped up with $500,000 in funding, providing a g…