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Odette Auger

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

Truth is a journey that we walk one story at a time

By Odette Auger ● First Person ● September 29, 2022 September 30, 2022

On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, I’m thinking about all the voices that have been silenced — and the ways we can start to heal

Three braids of sweetgrass woven with yellow to light and dark green blades are in managing editor Odette Auger’s hand.

The quiet joys of coming home to Anishinaabe territories

By Odette Auger ● First Person ● September 27, 2022 September 27, 2022

A trip home was a dream come true — a letter of gratitude after saying baamaapii to my kin

Historic welcome pole, rooted in Klahoose origin story, brings healing to the people

By Odette Auger ● News ● September 22, 2022 September 22, 2022

Ernest Puglas brought family’s carving legacy to ‘Cortes Island’ to craft the pole, which was raised in ceremony on Wednesday.

A bundle of sage is burning while placed on a table, it's smudge smoke is wafting up from it.

Being mindimooyenh: Odette Auger’s intentions as managing editor

By Odette Auger ● First Person ● August 15, 2022 August 17, 2022

I’ve always been a storyteller and a helper — I aim to bring both of these skills together to amplify and centre Indigenous voices in a good way

Dozens of people stand in a cedar wood longhouse along the panelled walls. The two families of the marrying couple are standing across the floor, facing each other. Most people are wearing regalia, including red and black button blankets and vests. Head pieces that are wrapped around their heads, chilkat woven blankets, furs, and shells.

Awakening a Haida clan that slept for 150 years

By Odette Auger ● Features ● August 11, 2022 August 15, 2022

Siblings Kalga Jaad Erin Brillon and Skil Xaaw Jesse Brillon worked together to host the return of their Haida clan of Laana Tsaadas with first feast in more than a century