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‘Unstoppable’ Squamish Nation Elder recipient of B.C. Reconciliation Award

May 3, 2021 by Kathleen Mary Willis

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By Elisia Seeber, North Shore News, May 2, 2021

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/unstoppable-squamish-nation-elder-recipient-of-bc-reconciliation-award-xelemilh-doris-paul-3680964

“Incredible” and “unstoppable.”

These are just two words that have been used to describe Xele’milh, Doris Paul, an inspirational Squamish Nation Elder and leader who has worked tirelessly for more than a decade for the betterment of her community and to further reconciliation in British Columbia.

A residential school survivor, Indigenous educator, and advocate, Paul’s passion for community safety and hard work over the years has led to initiatives such as the Integrated First Nations Unit (IFNU) with the North Vancouver RCMP, the First Nations Court, and the North Vancouver Integrated Domestic Violence Unit, as well as the North Shore’s Violence Against Women Committee’s Strength and Remembrance Pole project.

Her ongoing efforts to bridge connections were recognized this week, as one of nine recipients of the inaugural B.C. Reconciliation Award, which acknowledges extraordinary leadership, courage, wisdom, and dedication in advancing reconciliation for Indigenous people across the province.

The roots of her desire to care for her community run deep to the trauma she endured as a child over the course of 10 years at the Sechelt Indian Residential School, Paul shared in a government release about the award.

“Because of this era, I am an adult healing from my childhood,” Paul explained, adding that the entrenched systemic and societal racism she experienced as an adult hindered her education and employment.

The concept of reconciliation overwhelmed her, but she longed for healing. Eventually, she found new strength: “The idea of residential school was to kill the Indian in me and possibly bury me,” Paul said in the release.

“But if they [did] bury the Indian in me, they actually [planted] a seed. I [grew] above my pain and bloomed into an Indigenous woman who wanted to live and wanted to love and respect my culture and traditions.”

Paul also shared that the first time she ever felt empowered to seek reconciliation for the betterment of her community was in 2005 when she noticed a disturbing trend of youth being given drugs and alcohol at parties. So, she set up a meeting to find out if other parents were aware of what was happening.

Word spread, and Paul was joined by more than 50 parents, later inviting the RCMP and West Vancouver Police Department to join them. Through her persistence, a partnership between the Squamish Nation parents and police was formed, which further ignited her passion to help make a difference in her people.

Through this work, she helped bring police and Squamish Nation’s leadership to the table to begin negotiations for improved services for her community.

Paul is also acknowledged for her unwavering leadership and determination on the North Shore’s Violence Against Women Committee’s Strength and Remembrance Pole project, which helped to “deepen Indigenous cultural understanding and the work of reconciliation for many, most importantly the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.”


Reclaiming Power and Place

The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people.

The two volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.

The Final Report is comprised of the truths of more than 2,380 family members, survivors of violence, experts and Knowledge Keepers shared over two years of cross-country public hearings and evidence gathering.

It delivers 231 individual Calls for Justice directed at governments, institutions, social service providers, industries and all Canadians.

As documented in the Final Report, testimony from family members and survivors of violence spoke about a surrounding context marked by multi-generational and inter-generational trauma and marginalization in the form of poverty, insecure housing or homelessness and barriers to education, employment, health care and cultural support.

Experts and Knowledge Keepers spoke to specific colonial and patriarchal policies that displaced women from their traditional roles in communities and governance and diminished their status in society, leaving them vulnerable to violence.

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The Strength and Remembrance Pole in North Vancouver, topped with the figure of a woman, represents all those who never came home; wrapped in a blanket symbolizing Love and care, she stands atop an eagle who has carried her home to the creator.

Through her work on MMIWG, Doris Paul acted as Cultural Advisor to help create the “Strength and Remembrance Pole,” which now stands outside the North Vancouver RCMP Detachment in honour of the MMIWG, and the lives lost at the Ècole Polytechnique University.

“There are so many important people who have joined this movement, so many stepped forward to lend a hand or [brought] recommendations of services needed, and how to apply the new directives,” Paul said in a release. I would like to thank [the] teammates who stood by my side.”

“We are all paddling in the same direction and we are pulling together.”

In a speech to the Legislative Assembly, Bowinn Ma, MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, congratulated Paul, calling her an “incredible and unstoppable woman.”

She praised Paul “for her work to improve community safety, deepen Indigenous cultural understanding and for her work in reconciliation, especially for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.”

In a later post to Twitter, Ma said she had so much gratitude to Paul “for her incredible work.”

This isn’t the first time Paul has been recognized for her work, either. In 2017 she was awarded the Be More than a Bystander Award from Ending Violence BC, for her work with the North Vancouver RCMP and West Vancouver police as the Aboriginal Victim Specialist Worker in the North Shore domestic Violence Unit. She also received BC Achievement’s Community Award in 2007 for her work as the founder and chair of Caring for Our Youth Committee.

Janet Austin, lieutenant governor of B.C., who has chosen reconciliation as one of the key priorities of her mandate, said the inaugural recipients of the award are shining examples of those in British Columbia who have demonstrated the many approaches to furthering reconciliation through meaningful action.

“It is humbling and inspiring to read of their stories, their incredible impacts in their communities, and to learn from their perspectives on reconciliation,” she said in a statement.

“Reconciliation must take root in our hearts, within families, between generations, and throughout our communities. I invite all British Columbia to join us in celebrating these champions, to learn from their stories, and to strive to build relationships with each other across cultures.”

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