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- Title: slhunlheni’ ni’ huqels ’u tthu kiks | Ladies Baking Cakes
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Group of women displaying the cakes they baked in a cooking class.
(Published 28 December 1967).
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- Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
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- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
slhunlheni’ ni’ huqels ’u tthu kiks | Ladies baking cakes
- slhunlheni’ ni’ huqels ’u tthu kiks.
The ladies are baking cakes. - yu sq’uq’ip tthu slhunlheni’ swe’s syaays ’eelhtun kws yu t’at’ul’ut-s kws huqels ’u kwthu kiks.
The ladies gathered up their work from the cake making class. - nilh ni’ wi’ultum’ ’u tuna’ kweyul.
They are showing them off today.
Key information
- Time period or Date: 1967
- Theme(s): Education, People,
- Location: TBD
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Jay Powley
- Individuals identified: Seen with the cakes are, left to right: Delores Joe, Stella Johnny, Theresa Thorne, Dorothy August, Donna Joe, Frieda Charlie, Bertha Antoine (see description below for more information).
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This was a story published in: the Cowichan Leader, 28 December 1967.
Sponsored by the Indian Affairs Branch and with the co-operation of the adult education program of School District 65 (Cowichan), a home economics class for Indian women was conducted at Mount Prevost junior secondary school this fall. Mrs. K. R. Jameson was instructor for sewing and cooking courses. On the last session before Christmas the cooking class baked and decorated Christmas cakes, with Mrs. Marion Clibbett assisting with the decorating instruction. Seen here with the cakes are, left to right: Delores Joe, Stella Johnny, Theresa Thorne, Dorothy August, Donna Joe, Frieda Charlie, Bertha Antoine. Owners of the cakes are, left to right, first row: M. Johnny, D. Joe, B. Antoine; second row: L. Rice, T. Thorne, F. Charlie; third row: D. Joe, D. August, S. Johnny, and demonstration cake made by Mrs. Clibbett. Mrs. Rice’s cake was made for the 50th wedding anniversary of her parents in January.
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