Videos
In this collection of videos, Anona invites you to explore the richness of syilx Okanagan culture.
Join Anona on this journey of discovery and learning through her engaging storytelling and teachings.
The name "Penticton" pronounced 'pen-TIK-tən' comes from the nsyilxcən word "snpintktn," and the Visit Penticton team has heard more than a few interesting ways of pronunciation for our city.
The name Penticton has commonly been translated as “a place to stay forever,” but more accurately means “a place where people have always been all year long," or "The Always Place."
We are honored to have Anona Kampe, of the Penticton Indian Band in the syilx Okanagan Nation, provide some background and history on the name Penticton or snpintktn. Anona's traditional name is sknir̓mn, which translates to Buttercup, and she is a singer, drum carrier, beadworker, storyteller, dancer, teacher, harvester, disciplinarian, knowledge keeper, and water protector.
snpintktn was traditionally a wetland, with lots of different plants, animals and species, which provided plenty of hunting, fishing, roots, berries and medicines, as well as technologies that were utilized from the land such as trees to make dugout canoes to navigate the waterways. There are some areas within the territory that the Syilx Okanagan People would only go in the summer or only in the winter but here in snpintktn, they were always here, all year-round.
We are honored to have Anona Kampe, of the Penticton Indian Band in the syilx Okanagan Nation, share the syilx Okanagan protocols. These protocols are rules or laws that govern them that have allowed them to live in complete sustainability for thousands of years since time immemorial.
Anona's traditional name is sknir̓mn, which translates to Buttercup, and she is a drum carrier, singer, beadworker, basket maker, jingle dancer, harvester, language speaker, storyteller, land and water protector, lifelong learner, intergenerational trauma survivor, mother, wife, sister, auntie, daughter, cousin, friend and knowledge keeper.
Also featured in the video is Eliana Bray’s Indigenous culinary business, Cree-ation Nation. Her business is set to officially open this fall: https://creeationnation.ca/
A member of the Penticton Indian Band in the Okanagan Nation, Anona has worked within the Nation sharing Okanagan culture & history. Born in Penticton to parents, Ramona Paul who resides in Penticton & the late Garth Brayshaw. Granddaughter to the late Rachel & Basil Paul & the late Kay & Donald Brayshaw. Married to Todd Kampe and together they have two sons, Brandon & Tristan. Her traditional name sknir̓mn ~ Buttercup was gifted to her by her late Auntie, Shirley Ortland.
"I will share the work I do with respect to learning on the land, visiting sacred sites and sharing traditional stories connected to those sites. I will share my own personal experience being on the land. I will explain my responsibility as an Okanagan woman with respect to our traditional harvesting practices.
This webinar is funded on behalf of Heritage Canada and BC NEIHR