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The AMR basketball team of 13 Indigenous women pose for a fun team photo. 7 stand in the back row, 5 kneel in front of them, and one is laying in front of them.

Indigenous women’s basketball team hustling to realize a dream

By Emilee Gilpin ● Vancouver Island ● February 16, 2022 August 3, 2022

All My Relations (AMR) Indigenous women’s basketball team has launched a new fundraising campaign to help send them to compete in the much anticipated annual All Native Basketball Tournament (ANBT) on Ts’msyen territory in Prince Rupert this April.

A view of cabins at T’áalan Stl’áng, which is a two-mile stretch of sandy beach.

Haida Nation is ‘Giving Back Names’

By Emilee Gilpin ● Vancouver Island ● February 2, 2022 August 3, 2022

Twelve Haida place names across Haida Gwaii are being restored from their brief colonial reference as a part of an ongoing project that has “no end goal.”

‘I stand with the Wet’suwet’en and all the Indigenous land and water protectors’

By Emilee Gilpin ● Vancouver Island ● November 24, 2021 July 11, 2022

Longtime Indigenous rights activist Ellen Gabriel’s message to Wet’suwet’en land and water defenders.

Hard, beautiful, inspiring: Reflections on a year with IndigiNews

By Emilee Gilpin ● Vancouver Island ● October 19, 2021 July 11, 2022

Emilee Gilpin shifts from role as managing editor into advisor, facilitator and contributor, encouraging others to fill the space and breathe new life into IndigiNews.

Canada is in ‘a time of reckoning’ says this Indigenous father

By Emilee Gilpin ● Vancouver Island ● September 16, 2021 July 11, 2022

While many people are waking up to the truth of what Indigenous Peoples experienced in former residential “schools,” Steve Sxwithultxw says we need more action from the government on meaningful reconciliation and justice.

Nuxalk Nation stands together to uphold the laws of the land and waters

By Emilee Gilpin ● Uncategorized ● August 26, 2021 July 11, 2022

‘We’re saying no to mining, but it’s a spark in the community to talk about these bigger issues, to bring people together and reimagine a future where we’re actually healthy, and safe, living within our ecosystem in a good way,’ says Nuskmata