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Who We Are

Our Mission

Coast Salish 2Spirit Teachings

Four Houseposts

The purpose of the Society is to maintain Coast Salish 2Spirit wellness on our ancestral lands and waters, and to  strengthen relationships with urban Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ relatives through teachings of respect, shared responsibility, and transformation. 


We will work together to reaffirm the roles and responsibilities of Coast Salish 2Spirit relatives in our cultures and ceremony.

Four Houseposts

Coast Salish 2Spirit Teachings

Four Houseposts

The goals and objectives of the Society (known as the Four Houseposts) are as follows:


1) SPIRIT: To develop and maintain Coast Salish 2Spirit focused safe spaces within local and urban Indigenous communities in ways that honour and recognize Coast Salish cultural maintenance and reaffirmation; 


2) FAMILY: To encourage loved ones, relatives

The goals and objectives of the Society (known as the Four Houseposts) are as follows:


1) SPIRIT: To develop and maintain Coast Salish 2Spirit focused safe spaces within local and urban Indigenous communities in ways that honour and recognize Coast Salish cultural maintenance and reaffirmation; 


2) FAMILY: To encourage loved ones, relatives, and Coast Salish Nations to decolonize, to reclaim our Coast Salish truths about gender and sexuality, and to include 2Spirit family members in all aspects of Coast Salish cultures and ceremony; 


3) saʔəst - To Lift Up the spirit, wellbeing and families of 2Spirit/Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ friends and relatives living on Coast Salish lands, so they may strengthen their relationships to local Coast Salish histories, protocols, and ancestral ways of knowing and being;    


4) c̓ec̓əw̓itəl̕ - To help one other build local, Coast Salish focused 2Spirit teachings as medicine, and to recognize 2Spirit intergenerational, ancestral, and contemporary cultural knowledge systems as part of our transformation teachings as xʷəlməxʷ (People of this Land).

Coast Salish 2Spirit Teachings

Coast Salish 2Spirit Teachings

Coast Salish 2Spirit Teachings

BELONGING– 2Spirit people have the ancestral right to come home to their communities, cultures, and own identities as gender and sexually diverse relatives fully and without discrimination. 2Spirit people have historic and contemporary roles and responsibilities in Coast Salish cultures and ceremonies, and also have the right to safe spac

BELONGING– 2Spirit people have the ancestral right to come home to their communities, cultures, and own identities as gender and sexually diverse relatives fully and without discrimination. 2Spirit people have historic and contemporary roles and responsibilities in Coast Salish cultures and ceremonies, and also have the right to safe spaces and homes within community.


TRANSFORMATION – Transformation has always been a central element of Coast Salish cultures. We recognize 2Spirit people as change-makers, and as creators of balance and healing within our families and communities. We acknowledge change as tradition and strength in our Coast Salish Nations and societies. We make space to lift-up the distinct truths of 2Spirit peoples’ transformation in their own journeys, their needs, and the medicines they offer; this includes all aspects of our cultural ways of knowing and being. 


RESPECT – We take care of our relations, and our relations take care of us; this is our teaching of shared responsibility as Coast Salish people. 2Spirit people are respected, openly celebrated and included in all community gatherings, ceremony, and events as full contributors and participants in culture. We aim to ensure acceptance of 2Spirit people in Coast Salish families and community, and to meet non-acceptance (as acts of unkindness) with teachings of love, protection, humility, and mutual respect. We recognize that doing this work reinforces our obligations as family, rooted in our snəw̓eyəɬ (teachings, law).


FLUIDITY – 2Spirit people are a fundamental part of their families, communities, and cultures because of their role, responsibilities, and medicines that encourage ancestral teachings of inclusiveness and diversity. 2Spirit fluidity is a gift and strength from the Creator, and this must not be confined by their families or communities.


θəʔit (TRUTH) - As relatives in Coast Salish Nations and cultures, we honour the right of 2Spirit children, youth, and adults to learn about and develop their gifts within their traditions, in order to guide and strengthen value over their own teachings within the geography and ecosystems they belong to. We recognize that all teachings around body, gender, and sexuality are interconnected and are clearly sacred.


ADVOCACY – We honour and stand in solidarity with our 2Spirit relatives, and in their need to develop and strengthen 2Spirit community within our own Coast Salish Nations and families, as well as other urban Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ communities living on our ancestral lands.


BALANCE – We respect the many languages and cultural teachings within different Coast Salish territories, and also of urban Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ relatives living within the boundaries of Coast Salish territories. 

Our Work

Safety & Wellness

Research & Resources

Support Each Other

Work with local, on-reserve Coast Salish, and urban Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ communities to offer intergenerational 2Spirit/Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ programs, activities, and information that are rooted in Coast Salish protocols and teachings.

Support Each Other

Research & Resources

Support Each Other

Help support the work of Coast Salish and local 2Spirit/Indigequeer communities in "Vancouver", and on "Vancouver Island".


To strengthen the Coast Salish 2Spirit/Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ network, and to help local communities acquire funding for land-based, regional and provincial initiatives.

Research & Resources

Research & Resources

Research & Resources

Collaborate with local Coast Salish and 2Spirit/Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ communities and knowledge keepers to create and action community-driven 2Spirit/Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ health and wellness research, and resource development.

Society Membership

Voting Members

All "voting" members of the Society will identify as Coast Salish 2Spirit, or Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ - or they will be a family (birth or chosen) member of a Coast Salish 2Spirit/Indigequeer person.

Voting members have the right to vote and make changes within the Society at the Annual General Meeting.

Register your membership in the 'Contact Us' tab on this website*

Friends & Family

All friends and family, local community members and organizations are welcome to register as a member of the Society. However, not all will be approved as "voting members".

General membership will receive annual updates, announcements of Coast Salish 2Spirit/Indigequeer events and activities in local areas, resources, and will receive priority/advance notice of all employment opportunities through the Society's collective work.

Email to register as a non-voting member: sparrow@transformingembers.com 

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors serves a term of 2 years upon election by Society membership.

All Board members must be a voting member of the Society in good standing.



CURRENT BOD starting January 2022


Family Speaker 1 (President) - Corrina Sparrow


Family Speaker 2 (Vice President) - Mack Paul


Usher (Secretary) - Draco Recalma


Floor Manager (Treasurer) - Saylesh Wesley

Owl Firekeeper Logo

The Owl Firekeeper design was generously offered by Chase Gray.


Chase Gray is a 2S xʷməθkʷəy̓əm and Tsimshian artist. He was born in Nanaimo BC, and moved to the mainland in early childhood. 


The Owl and Fire represent Coast Salish 2Spirit medicines.


Owl is a revered night hunter and guide, with the ability to help us see through darkness and the unknown.


Fire represents Coast Salish 2Spirit belonging - which has always been part of our cultures - and our responsibility to keep 2Spirit teachings alive in our families, communities, and ceremony.

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