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Odette Auger, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Odette is Sagamok Anishnawbek through her mother. As a freelance journalist, Odette’s bylines include Watershed Sentinel, The Resolve, La Converse, The Tyee, Asparagus Magazine, and APTN National News. Odette lives on Klahoose, Homalco, and Tla’amin territories (Cortes Island).

Odette's Latest Articles

An Indigenous woman stands in front of a bay of water at low tide. She is waring a white long sleeve shirt with the sleeves pulled up to her elbows, and it read "Justice for Jared. Jared Lowdnes killed by RCMP on July 8, 2021." Around her waist is a beaded belt that says "RCMP" and "ACAB". She is adorned in a seashell necklace, a woven cedar cuff, and rectangular bone earrings. Her right arm is raised above her head with an eagle feather in her fist.

One year after RCMP killed Wet’suwet’en man, loved ones push for justice

By Odette Auger, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ● Features ● July 12, 2022

Jared (Jay) Lowndes was shot by ‘Campbell River’ RCMP in 2021 — his friends and family members are still seeking systemic change by turning ‘rage into action,’ ‘pain into power’

In hard times, Anishinaabe grandmothers remind of ancestral strength

By Odette Auger, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ● Vancouver Island ● March 23, 2022

Elders gathered to share teachings about love and empowerment on International Women’s Day

Four Polaroid photos of great-grandmother, Elizabeth, placed on top of yarrow.

Trusting the medicine of my great-grandmother

By Odette Auger, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ● Okanagan ● March 9, 2022

The day from my childhood with my chi-nookmis (great grandmother) is vivid in my memory. We’re walking the edge of a B.C. forest near the Columbia River, surrounded by lush early summer greenery. Far from her home territory of Nippissing and Sagamok, Elizabeth sees a plant she knows is here, too. Her hand points out yarrow, its umbrella of densely packed, small white flowers atop strong stems and feathery leaves.