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Meral Jamal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Meral is a storyteller with IndigiNews focusing on Indigenous
law and governance. Her family is from India and she was born and
raised in the United Arab Emirates before moving to Canada for
university in 2017. Meral is a visitor in Inuit Nunangat and currently
lives in Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut.

Meral's Latest Articles

T’Sou-ke woman, who sat in a tree for nearly a month, says protest was about more than a single development

By Meral Jamal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ● Features ● September 29, 2023

After avoiding police this week, wis-waa-cha (Kati George-Jim) says her action ‘was important to the bigger strategy of confronting the Indian Act’

New research affirms ancestral knowledge, dating səlilwətaɬ fishery back to 850 BC

By Meral Jamal, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ● Features ● September 8, 2023

Study demonstrates through Western science that TWN consistently harvested chum salmon from təmtəmíxʷtən for nearly 3,000 years