By Ina Pace, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Squamish Chief Indigenous agriculture documentary Tea Creek screened at Squamish’s Totem Hall, revealing the cracks in a lesser-known oppressive system, according to its protagonist. Truth and reconciliation are merely words without action, redundant even, if they are not believed. When federal law usurps what existed before it, truths can get buried and ultimately misinformed, according to farmer Dzap’l Gye’a̱win Skiik Jacob Beaton. These include truths about the workings of everyday business; your shopping at the grocery store, for example. Indigenous food sovereignty (Indigenous people having control over their own food sources) is one of these buried truths, he said. Beaton is the co-owner of farm turned Indigenous agricultural training institute Tea Creek, which he founded in 2020 with his family. Tea Creek…
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