A little Christmas schmooze to enjoy with your hot buttered rum.

O Come O Come Emmanuel

From William Beynon’s Tsimshian Stories Volume VIII

The Orphan Boy and His Grandmother

Hla Guulda Gganhlaaga Ha’ligup’l Sha

Audio recorded circa 1960 by CBC Radio Producer Imbert Orchard in the Kitselas Canyon in northwest British Columbia.
Former Kitsumkalum chief Ben Bolton (my Dad's cousin)shares the name and story of a local bird that in the Ts'msyen language of Sm'algyax, has a special meaning about salmonberries.

CBC Archival interview excerpt(1960) with my Ts'msyen uncle, Kitsumkalum Chief Ben Bolton

Beginning Sm'algyax 1

CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE FULL DOC WITH INTRO/EXTRO and read my online CBC story with photos: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/docproject/features/g%C3%A2teau-%C3%A0-l-orange-the-story-of-a-recipe-that-survived-the-holocaust-1.4375222/g%C3%A2teau-%C3%A0-l-orange-the-story-of-a-recipe-that-survived-the-holocaust-1.4375235/ My 2017/2018 CBC Radio documentary (half-hour) for 'The Doc Project.' This half hour network radio documentary received an outpouring of CBC listener response, including scores of people who baked the Holocaust recipe described in the documentary and sent us photos of their families and the cakes they baked as a symbol of the power of choosing light over darkness and love over hate, as the documentary's protagonists had during WWII. The doc was reprised in 2018 as the CBC network special for Remembrance Day. It also contains chilling reminders of the foothold organized hate is again taking in our world.

CBC The Doc Project: 'Gâteau à l'orange: Recipe for Love from a Nazi Death Camp'

BIO:
Pamela Post is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, educator and filmmaker based in Coast Salish territory (Vancouver, Canada). 

In the summer of 2023, she was gifted the Sm'algyax name Ggol'gm Hana'ack - 'Cloudberry Woman' to wear by Ts'msyen cultural leader Ahl'lidaaw Gitnack'angeak, president of the Tsimshian Tribal Association in Ketchikan, Alaska. 

She is an acclaimed storyteller, journalist and broadcaster of Ts'msyen and German-Canadian ancestry who recently produced her latest one-hour documentary 'A Tale of Two Metlakatlas: my Matriarchs, the Missionaries and Me' for CBC IDEAS (premiered: May 29, 2023; re-aired twice in June and July, 2023), accompanied by a CBC First Person online article Pamela wrote to accompany the doc - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/returning-dad-s-ashes-to-the-skeena-river-1.6883123 - and preceded by her earlier IDEAS documentary 'Passaggio' (premiered: Dec. 2021 and re-aired Jan 2022/Dec. 2023)- a story of transition, identity and love that followed her son's gender transition through a mother-son, musical and Indigenous lens. 

She also has a short animated film in pre-production with award-winning Michif stop-motion animator Amanda Strong and Spotted Fawn Productions, titled 'Haboolm Ksinaalgat (SOUL CATCHER) -- a powerful cinematic tale inspired by a stories from her Ts'msyen father, John Post, with generous support and funding from the First Peoples Cultural Council, the Canada Council for the Arts (Creating, Knowing and Sharing) Indigenous Arts stream, the ISO (Indigenous Screen Office) and other supporters.  

She is well-known for her award-winning CBC investigative news reporting and currently, regular CBC network radio documentaries. She is also a creative writer, having written an opera libretto and art songs who teaches and guest lectures on storytelling, journalism and decolonization issues at colleges and universities. 

(CLICK ON THE PHOTO accompanying each track to open up each documentary description and to listen to Pamela's award-winning audio stories) Wayi wah!

CBC The Doc Project: 'Gâteau à l'orange: Recipe for Love from a Nazi Death Camp'

Pamela Post (Ggol'gm Hana'ack)

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