WELCOME TO THE EN'OWKIN CENTRE!

The En'owkin Centre is an Indigenous cultural, educational and creative arts institution located in Penticton, BC, which offers university/college transfer diplomas and certificate programs. Our Centre is comprised of highly qualified educators who are also professional artists and writers, facilitators and Indigenous advocates. The En'owkin Centre provides a culturally sensitive learning environment in a nurturing and challenging atmosphere.

The En’owkin Centre is a dynamic institution which puts forth into practice the principles of self-determination and the validation of cultural aspirations and identity. An Indigenous cultural, educational, ecological and creative arts organization, the En’owkin Centre is taking a lead role in the development and implementation of Indigenous knowledge systems, both at the community and international levels.

 

INDIGENOUS EARTH: PRAXIS & TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE
Revitalizing Indigenous knowledge & shaping a new approach to sustainability

INDIGENOUS EARTH: PRAXIS & TRANSFORMATION CONFERENCE: Revitalizing Indigenous knowledge & shaping a new approach to sustainability

The En’owkin Centre and FORREX are hosting this International conference from March 9th to 12th, 2010, at the Penticton Lakeside Resort in Penticton, British Columbia Canada.  Join us and listen to a diverse range of academics that will share theories, experiences and methods for applying Indigenous knowledge to complex environmental and social realities. 

The conference is free for observers.  You do have an option to pay $25.00/day for lunch and light snacks or $90.00 for the full four days.   If you do not want lunch, please register and ensure you fill in “section E” that gives you the option to have lunch, or not have lunch.  Under the payment information, you can state “no payment required.

Questions may be directed to Ellen Simmons at ecommunity[at]vip.net.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR CONFERENCE

CLICK HERE TO VIEW CONFERENCE AGENDA

Olympic Torch Celebration En'owkin Centre highlights

Monday January 25, 2010
Penticton, British Columbia

TIME: 12:05 PM
PLACE: SOUTH OKANAGAN EVENTS CENTRE – OFFICIAL OLYMPIC STAGE

The En'owkin Centre celebrated the Olympic Torch on Monday January 25, 2010. Elders, language teachers, and community members brought drums, shawls, rattles, flutes, wing dresses, ribbon shirts, button blankets & regalia to represent our many colors and nation groups that come to study at the En’owkin Centre.

Based on the Olympic dream of the athletes who are travelling from all parts of the world, five inpirational words were translated from the Nsyilxcen Language.

VISIT THE OKANAGAN FIRST PEOPLES WEBSITE

The site will allow the public to gain access to Syilx perspectives

on land and ecology, as well as to provide a view into our cultural dynamics as reflected in historical memory, to provide a view into the contemporary and traditional cosmology and epistemology of our people.

VISIT WEBSITE

Okanagan First Peoples is a web site developed and maintained by En'owkin

THEYTUS BOOKS

 

The first Aboriginal owned and operated publishing house in Canada and is respected for its efforts in producing and promoting appropriate reading material and information created by Indigenous authors, illustrators and artists.

VISIT WEBSITE

Theytus Books is an En'owkin Centre publishing company