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After a call out to the community to design a logo for the SncÉ™wips Heritage Museum, a Westbank First Nations member’s sketch was chosen.
Jordan Coble, the curatorial heritage researcher for the museum, says the public art committee was looking to enhance the logo to reflect more of what the museum represents.
“Out of that came the design of Coralee Miller,” he said. “The idea behind the logo was the idea of inclusion, something that didn’t just represent Westbank, that didn’t just represent us as our own small community. We are very progressive, we are developed and very proud of our community but we are part of the entire nations.”
Miller says her design represents the importance of water and how it connected the WFN to other tribes when they were semi-nomadic.
“It is an N'ha-a-itk, our lake spirit,” said Miller. “It is very important to us because it is the water and the water is very sacred to us. It represents our connections with other tribes, it is where we go to heal and cleanse. Women carry the sacred water in their wombs, which without our women we wouldn’t have tribes.”
Millar’s sketch was turned into a metal work piece by Clint George of Penticton.
