Indigenous

Close-up of an infant's hand grabbing an adult's index finger as it lays in a blue crib with white sheets & a green pillow.

No One Wants to Be a Grief Warrior

But with the help of healers and my family’s Indigenous and Jewish traditions, I found strength in recovering from my son’s death.

Tamara Podemski

June 05, 2024 - 4 min read

Justice Moore, a young Gitxsan/Tsimshian man wearing a cap and hi-vis vest harvests kale at Tea Creek.

Art & Design BC

This BC Farm Grows Indigenous Food Sovereignty

The documentary Tea Creek spotlights the successes and challenges of a small farm with big ambitions.

Sun Woo Baik

May 03, 2024 - 5 min read

Upper body view of two men wearing red serge RCMP uniform.

First Voice Human Rights

Meanwhile in Canada, Cops Still Cause Harm

Forget the memes: Canadian police hurt Black and Indigenous people just as much as their colleagues to the south.

Molly Cross-Blanchard

February 14, 2023 - 5 min read

Interior of a trading post. Leather goods hang from log rafters. Souvenir shelves and a wooden counter wrap around the room.

Art & Design First Voice

Finding our Way Past Trading Posts

Art markets in the US Southwest can be spaces of pain for the Indigenous people whose cultural artifacts they sell.

Larissa Nez

July 07, 2022 - 7 min read

Aerial view of Bella Bella, a coastal town. Commercial buildings and homes dot the vast forest and a pier juts off the shore.

BC Energy

Clean Energy, Haíłzaqv-Style

This BC First Nation is using green technology to live out its ancestral values.

Leona Humchitt

June 21, 2022 - 5 min read

Golden light rays shine through the dense, green canopy of an old growth forest on Vancouver Island.

Awards Indigenous

Recruiting Old-Growth Forest is an Act of Faith

Indigenous communities on Vancouver Island are healing forests for the future.

Odette Auger,

Lauren Kaljur

June 21, 2022 - 13 min read

Heather Hatch and Diane Abel sit together, embracing each other by the shoulder, atop a hill overlooking the Peace River.

Art & Design BC

The Story of Site C Took Time to Tell Right

Indigenous filmmaker Heather Hatch’s new documentary has been five years in the making.

Angelina Ravelli

May 11, 2022 - 5 min read

Marilyn James, a Sinixt woman with tan skin & medium grey hair wears a grey hat and grey patterned sweater, sits in a forest.

Art & Design Human Rights

When Settler Society Erased Them, These First Nations Fought Back

Two documentaries explore how erasure impacts Indigenous peoples, and the ways two nations are fighting to be seen.

Zeahaa Rehman

May 05, 2022 - 7 min read

A helmeted man rides a red motorbike through a smoky, burning patch of the Amazon Rainforest.

Art & Design Climate Change

This Amazonian People Took Up Cameras to Protect their Territory

Filmmaker Alex Pritz collaborated with the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau to document their fight against a colonial onslaught.

Sun Woo Baik

May 03, 2022 - 6 min read

Michelle & Alex Stoney sit inside a formline hand made of driftwood and rocks. Mountains rise in the distance.

Art & Design BC

Making Art from Nature

These Gitxsan siblings create impermanent artworks from objects they find along the Skeena River.

Whess Harman

January 07, 2022 - 7 min read

Corn, beans, and squash of various shapes in shades of yellow, orange and green in a circular pile on grass-covered ground.

Food Indigenous

Decolonizing What We Eat

Conversations with Indigenous farmers and thinkers about their pursuit of “honorable harvests.”

Katy Severson,

Rebecca Thomas

June 21, 2021 - 13 min read

First Voice Gender

A Long Road to Action

Xena Szkotak is walking cross-country for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people.

Brianna Sharpe

May 01, 2021 - 6 min read

Cranberry shrubs in a vast mountain valley north of the Arctic Circle. In the distance, a woman picks cranberries.

Awards Indigenous

This Land Doesn’t Need a White Saviour

White supremacy still colours environmentalist efforts. Here’s why that’s a problem, and how to get out of the way.

Carleigh Baker

March 05, 2021 - 13 min read

An adult and child in winter jackets walk through a cranberry field on a clear day in Nova Scotia.

First Voice Indigenous

Netukulimk: The Mi’kmaq Way of Life

Despite colonial attacks, Indigenous peoples have preserved our principles of living in harmony with the land.

Killa Atencio

December 18, 2020 - 5 min read

Five clear glass bottles of golden kombucha with paper labels, sitting on a wooden surface surrounded by big green leaves.

First Voice Food

Kombucha as Treaty

As I tend my scoby, I reflect on the ethics of relationships between people and the land.

Jessica Johns

September 18, 2020 - 5 min read

A fire burns a patch of ferns and trees in the Amazon rainforest, releasing thick smoke into the air.

Climate Change Indigenous

When the Amazon Burns, We All Lose

Last year’s Amazon fires took so much — from all of us.

Lola Méndez

August 05, 2020 - 8 min read

A woman sitting across from a doctor wipes her nose with a tissue.

First Voice Gender

I’ve Been Lucky, but Indigenous Women Deserve Better Health Outcomes

Our health-care systems discriminate against Indigenous women. It’s time for that to end.

Alison Tedford Seaweed

March 11, 2020 - 5 min read

A bronze sculpture in the Northwest Coast style of circular faces overlapping each other in Whistler, BC.

Cities Indigenous

Decolonizing the City: A Q&A with Ginger Gosnell Myers

Vancouver’s first Indigenous relations manager reflects on the urban Aboriginal experience.

Wawmeesh Hamilton

January 15, 2020 - 6 min read

A woman with light brown skin and reddish-brown hair looks at a computer monitor.

BC First Voice

My Great-Grandfather Used the Grease Trails, I Use a Smartphone

Closing the digital divide can help Indigenous people achieve self-determination.

Trevor Jang

September 05, 2019 - 6 min read

Chief Namoks of the Wet'suwet'en in traditional clothing standing in front of large snow-covered trees.

BC Climate Change

The Wet’suwet’en Aren’t Just Protecting “the Environment”

The Unist’ot’en and Gidimt’en land defenders aren’t just fighting pipelines, they’re fighting for a way of life.

Anne Spice

July 23, 2019 - 12 min read

Crystal Smith and Kat Zucomulwut Norris stand in a park talking to each other, as Kat gestures with her left hand.

Art & Design Cities

Growing the Vines Festival: A Q&A with Heather Lamoureux

Vancouver’s eco-arts festival brings activist performance to the people.

Jessie Johnston

August 08, 2018 - 9 min read

Ocean Hyland rolls primer onto large sheets of plywood under a wooden gazebo in a forest.

Art & Design Indigenous

Sharing her Gifts: A Q&A with Ocean Hyland

Before her Earth Week residency, this Indigenous artist/activist talks pipeline protests, language immersion, and reconciliation.

Jessie Johnston

April 19, 2018 - 9 min read

Indigenous activists, holding flags and oars, make a stirring entrance at Standing Rock as they arrive in a line of canoes.

Indigenous Plastic & Pollution

The Sacred Fire of Standing Rock Still Burns

Two years after the first #NoDAPL camp was built, a Water Protector shares memories of fighting pipelines at Oceti Sakowin Camp.

Andreanne Catt

April 06, 2018 - 7 min read