{"id":190371,"date":"2023-10-26T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=190371"},"modified":"2023-10-31T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:08:31","slug":"terrace-nisgaa-elders-off-to-national-elders-gathering-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/terrace-nisgaa-elders-off-to-national-elders-gathering-in-edmonton\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace Nisga&#8217;a Elders off to National Elders gathering in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Terrace Nisga\u2019a Elders Association is sending<span lang=\"en-CA\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">11 members to the <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/national-gathering-of-elders-held-in-edmonton\/\">National Elders Gathering<\/a> happening this week in Edmonton, Alberta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-CA\">The Gathering runs from Oct. 30 <\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">to Nov. 2: t<\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">his is the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic that the Elders have been able to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Terrace Nisga\u2019a Elders Association is a part of <span lang=\"en-CA\">the Gitlaxdax Nisga\u2019a Terrace Society. <\/span>Wednesday was the send off dinner for the Elders as they celebrated with a dinner and traditional singing and drumming from <span lang=\"en-CA\">the Gitlaxdax Nisga\u2019a Terrace Society. <\/span>CFNR was on location to talk with the President Louisa Gray and the Treasurer Marlene Robinson about the event the planning and fundraising that has gone into it.<\/p>\n<p>The event was the final fundraising for the trip, with a loonie auction and a traditional blanket dance. Various businesses in the community of Terrace have sponsored the fundraising efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Terrace Nisga\u2019a Elders Association is sending\u00a011 members to the National Elders Gathering happening this week in Edmonton, Alberta. The Gathering runs from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2: this is the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic that the Elders have been able to attend. The Terrace Nisga\u2019a Elders Association is a part of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":190373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,16830],"tags":[17981,29491,8655,827],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191185,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190371\/revisions\/191185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190371"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=190371"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=190371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}