Display in the large display cabinet outside the Chilliwack library features a storytelling figure, the transformation site of Mt. Slesse, bear, salmon, raven and owl
The UFV Chilliwack library and the Indigenous Affairs office co-presented Sx̱wōx̱wiyám, Stories of Long Ago., at which Stó:lō storytellers led the audience through stories about bear, raven, salmon, and owl and the connection to the land and the water. Storytellers, including David Gutierrez, Mary Sandoval, Glen Malloway, and Joseph Dandurand, addressed the audience throughout the day in the atrium on the Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park
"I had started home when a coyote began to follow me from the shore, he was smilin’ at me, you know, with them yellow eyes, and he’s smilin’ with his crooked teeth… The coyote watched from the shore and then the raven came and joined the coyote, they both watched from the shore: theraven with his red eyes and his torn feathers, the coyote lights a cigarette and blows the smoke towards me and my boat. The raven smiles as coyote offers him a drag… The raven and coyote are laughing at me as they begin to share their bottle.” From Please do not Touch the Indians by Joseph Dandurand.
