SOS Tour Brochure (for tri-fold print-out)
Our July 2021 SOS Tour was a research and development road trip
to develop interest in our Spirit of the Sxwo'le (SOS) Coalition
and cultural historical exhibit.
Our July 2021 SOS Tour was a research and development road trip
to develop interest in our Spirit of the Sxwo'le (SOS) Coalition
and cultural historical exhibit.
Knowing My Culture, Finding My Voice, Understanding Phenomena, Journeying Together, Developing Solutions Together, Developing Our World
VISION
Whatcom Intergenerational High School envisions learning designed with students and supported by elders generating deep inquiry skills, thoughtful interactions and critical consciousness, ensuring every young person is able to contribute to a more just and sustainable world.
MISSION
Whatcom Intergenerational High School will ensure that Whatcom County high school students - no matter their life circumstances - develop the competencies and agency for success in college, career and life.
Whatcom Intergenerational High School envisions learning designed with students and supported by elders generating deep inquiry skills, thoughtful interactions and critical consciousness, ensuring every young person is able to contribute to a more just and sustainable world.
MISSION
Whatcom Intergenerational High School will ensure that Whatcom County high school students - no matter their life circumstances - develop the competencies and agency for success in college, career and life.
Whatcom Intergenerational High School (WIHS) was authorized by the Washington State Charter Commission on May 30th 2019. WIHS will be an innovative public charter school in Whatcom County. Due to CoVid19, we plan to open our doors for seventy-five 9th graders in August 2021. We will serve a culturally diverse community, eventually enrolling 320 students in grades 9-12 with elders and Traditional Providers (knowledge keepers who have a background in their own cultural history, governance, and language), supporting academic, social, emotional, physical and spiritual learning.
Our co-partner Whiteswan Environmental (WE) will help us ensure that our next generation of graduates have the competencies and agency to bring cultural, historical and ecological health perspectives to their communities and careers.
Our co-partner Whiteswan Environmental (WE) will help us ensure that our next generation of graduates have the competencies and agency to bring cultural, historical and ecological health perspectives to their communities and careers.
Whiteswan Environmental (WE) Projects:
The Spirit of the Sxwo'le (SOS) Coalition Leadership Organization Team (LOT) are 100% Indigenous people. The SOS Coalition’s Content Working Groups (CWGs) are Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners who ensure cultural safety as they work collaboratively on the following Indigenous-led project areas:
The Spirit of the Sxwo'le (SOS) Coalition Leadership Organization Team (LOT) are 100% Indigenous people. The SOS Coalition’s Content Working Groups (CWGs) are Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners who ensure cultural safety as they work collaboratively on the following Indigenous-led project areas:
Our programs and services work to educate and strengthen relationships between bio-regional native and non-native government and non-government organizations, as well as academic institutions to reconnect Coast Salish youth and community members with their culture and ancestral homelands to ensure our Schelangen (way of life) will thrive.
WE believe that by integrating and respecting our Schelangen (way of life) and the Western science/STEAM curricula, there will be inter-generational indigenous education on the ecological health issues of the past, present and future, therefore creating a resurgence of the Keepers of the Tradition and Protectors of the Circle of Life or the next generation of historians and conservationists.
"There is a lifetime of curriculum in learning the old ways."
Troy Olsen, Co-founder of WE
Troy Olsen, Co-founder of WE
WE believe this endeavor will forever allow Coast Salish peoples to practice their treaty rights and inherent birth rights, and in doing so, offer a measure of cultural, historical and ecological health protection and sustainability that can be modeled across the United States and Canada as they also work with their community with one mind.
"Our culture is amazing. The reef-net is amazing and the salmon people are worth saving."
Spirit of the Sxwo'le Youth Leader
Spirit of the Sxwo'le Youth Leader
