{"id":2467730,"date":"2026-06-19T23:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2467730"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:16:41","slug":"victorias-royal-bc-museums-hosts-indigenous-peoples-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/victorias-royal-bc-museums-hosts-indigenous-peoples-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria\u2019s Royal BC Museum\u2019s hosts Indigenous Peoples Day celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article_info\">\n<h2 class=\"headline\">Victoria\u2019s Royal BC Museum\u2019s hosts Indigenous Peoples Day celebration<\/h2>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 3:30 pm Friday, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- END BYLINE -->\n                          <\/div>\n<div id=\"article_content\">\n<p>Dozens of community members flocked to the Mungo Martin House in Thunderbird Park at the Royal BC Museum to celebrate the National Indigenous Peoples Day open house.<\/p>\n<p>National Indigenous Peoples Day is observed annually on June 21. It is a special day in Canada to celebrate the rich cultures, heritage, and unique contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and M\u00e9tis peoples.<\/p>\n<p>The date aligns with the summer solstice, a time traditionally used by many Indigenous communities for seasonal gatherings and ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors were invited to join and connect through conversation and deepen their understanding through respectful dialogue in a welcoming environment. <\/p>\n<p>Attendees met with cultural experts, Knowledge Keepers and Royal BC Museum members and listened to their stories, perspectives and asked questions about Indigenous histories, cultures, languages and living traditions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Victoria community gathered at the Mungo Martin House in Thunderbird Park at the Royal BC Museum to celebrate the National Indigenous Peoples Day open house. (Nishadini Fonseka\/Victoria News)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source vicnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria\u2019s Royal BC Museum\u2019s hosts Indigenous Peoples Day celebration Published 3:30 pm Friday, June 19, 2026 Dozens of community members flocked to the Mungo Martin House in Thunderbird Park at the Royal BC Museum to celebrate the National Indigenous Peoples Day open house. National Indigenous Peoples Day is observed annually on June 21. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2467731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Victorias-Royal-BC-Museums-hosts-Indigenous-Peoples-Day-celebration.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467732,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467730\/revisions\/2467732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}