Features
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Food for the frontlines — honouring Indigenous ingenuity during a colonial holiday
‘Genocide is the elephant in the room,’ this Thanksgiving, says Secwépemc Matriarch Miranda Dick.
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Survivor’s guilt in the wake of B.C. wildfires
‘We will be the Phoenix that rises through these ashes,’ says Jayna Pooley of Okanagan Indian Band.
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Feasting after the fire — Okanagan couple welcomes evacuees home with tacos and ribs
“This is just a way of giving back. Some people haven’t had a home-cooked meal in over a month,” says Joan Alexis of Okanagan Indian Band.
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Swapping hockey sticks for hoses — A wildfire history lesson
‘I never seen any quit from our people,’ says Dan Wilson, former firefighter and current councillor with the Okanagan Indian Band.
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B.C. wildfires a ‘wake-up call’ to return to Indigenous-led fire management
‘If you plan, as our people have done — where to burn, when to burn and what to burn — fire actually replenishes the land.’
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syilx family explains how wildfire impacts their ceremonies
Children brought up in the culture put this loss in perspective.
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Communication crucial in wildfire response
Chief Byron Louis says community support must continue even after the fires are put out
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Okanagan Chief inspired by community’s ‘strength and resilience’ in face of wildfire
Chief Byron Louis of the Okanagan Indian Band says with devastating losses comes the chance to reclaim traditional land practices.
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‘It was a team effort,’ says Chief Joe Alphonse on receiving the Order of B.C.
Tl’etinqox Chief and Tsilhqot’in National Government tribal chair Joe Alphonse is one of 16 recipients of the Order of British Columbia.
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Herman Edward keeps canoe journey alive 20 years later
The annual paddle upholds the syilx Peoples’ ancestral and territorial rights to cross the constructed Canada-U.S. border without interference.