🇨🇦 Canada 1d ago · Ben Fenlon

VIDEO & PHOTOS: Indigenous Peoples Day brings culture, connection to Colwood

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The old jokes are always the best.
After asking folks gathered at the shore of Esquimalt Lagoon to repeat back to him the Lekwungen phrase “Eykwachey’ul,” Bradley Dick (Yuxwelupton Qwal’ qaxala) hits them with the punchline.
“You’ve all just committed to giving me all your money,” he says, drawing a wave of laughter from the crowd.
He admits it’s a joke he tells every year at National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations, held in the grounds of Roya

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