Syilx artist selected for Indigenous Night Jerseys for Penticton Vees – Okanagan [Video]

After entering a contest on a whim, Wynona Paul says she was jumping for joy when she found out she had won.

The contest: the opportunity to have her art featured on the WHL Penticton Vees’ Indigenous Night orange jerseys.

The logo the Indigenous multi-disciplinary designed honours the Four Food Chiefs.

“Chief Black Bear skəmxist, he was the first one to lay his life down for our people and the three other food chiefs followed, there is Saskatoon Berry siyaʔ, the chief of all of the things that are good that grow above the ground, [Chief Salmon] n’tyxtix is the chief of all of the animals in the water and Chief Bitterroot, spitlem that is chief of all that is good below ground,” said Paul.

The orange jerseys will be worn at the game on Jan. 31, when the Vees face off against the Cowichan Valley Capitals. Then, the jerseys will be auctioned …