Chiefs and Elders THIS PHOTO OF Lily Speck of Alert Bay Is part of a collection of black and white prints by photographer David Neel. His powerful, personal portraits of aboriginal people are on display right now at the Terrace Art Gallery. It’s the first time the art gallery has hosted an exhibition from the National Gallery of Canada, But you've only got till Oct. 25 to see the show. Memories by the DOGS CHARGING ahead of us, my mother and I walk the trails of Ferry Island, surrounded by the yellow only cottonwoods in fall can create. These walks are important moments. The green waters of the Skeena slipping by, the soft squish of mud under our feet. “T remember,’ my mother says, ‘‘the Ferry Island walk we went on the day after granny died,”’ For several moments my mother and I are quiet, remem- bering her, my mother’s mother. She was stubborn, sometimes frustratingly so, and a strong and independent women. A woman who survived the Depression, volunteered for years and raised three chil- dren. My granny is an important part of my history, an in- tegral part of the feminist woman I am today, Come October, most of us are. thinking about the Thanksgiving long weekend and Hallowe’en. Few of us are aware October is also Women’s History month, and that this year it’s celebrating women in the fields of science and technology. Both women who have made history, and women who are in the process of making history. Women’s history is, unfortunately, often a legacy of si- lence, Not because women haven't been active, but be- cause our acts are often seen as natural or non-political and therefore as having less importance than those of men. Mothering for instance, or cooking, quilting and garden- ing. Think about the women who farmed the Terrace areca years ago, the women who wove cedar bark baskeis, dried salmon or helped built the first houses. Think about the women who have built our roads, staffed our hospitals as doctors and nurses. About the women who have been teachers or owned their own businesses. Take a moment to think about the young women who are making history around us, Those who are leaming to be- come welders and loggers, physicists or astronauts, They are your sisters, your mothers and your friends. They are women like my grandmother. Women who deserve places in our history books and in our memories — if only for the hour it takes to walk around Ferry Island, watching the Skeena slip by, being surrounded by glorious vellow. October is indeed a perfect month to celebrate women’s history. Sarah de Leeuw is a new columnist with the Terrace Standard. Ske’ll be writing once a month about women's #(; INGERBREADs 7 PLq' HOUSE. 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