Vancouver Island
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Meet six Indigenous youth on Vancouver Island honoured for excellence in sports
Recipients of the Premier’s Awards for Indigenous Youth Excellence in Sports this year include a soccer player, a war canoeist, a lacrosse player and more.
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IndigiNews is covering education for Indigenous students, teachers, and families: Here’s the latest
We’re following what’s happening in the education space across Vancouver Island, so you don’t have to.
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‘We are here to be the voices of our loved ones’
Along so-called Vancouver Island Highway, two Nations come together to hang red dresses and remember lost loved ones.
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‘How are they going to feel safe?’: Kackaamin healing centre rallies against cannabis facility
Community members are protesting a 57,000 square foot medical marijuana farm that’s slated to be built across the road from Kackaamin, a unique treatment centre with a whole-family approach.
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Indigenous law on the ground at Ye’yumnuts
Cowichan ancestral burial site gives students knowledge about protecting sacred areas.
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Nuu-chah-nulth leaders celebrate legal victory for commercial fishing rights
B.C. Court of Appeal ruling affirms unlimited rights for Ahousaht, Hesquiaht, Mowachaht/Muchalaht, Tla-o-qui-aht, and Ehattesaht/Chinehkint First Nations on the west Coast of Vancouver Island
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‘Tomorrow will be better’: Kids Help Phone expands services to reach more Indigenous youth
Deanna Dunham, a Mohawk member of Six Nations of the Grand River, says as demand rises for Kids Help Phone services during the pandemic, the organization is looking to become more inclusive
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Community hangs red dresses back up after two people are filmed taking them down in Ladysmith, B.C.
Snuneymuxw Elder sees opportunity to re-educate people on the ‘love and meaning’ behind the dresses
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B.C. schools will remain open due to low infection rates
B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said due to a ‘relatively low infection rate amongst school-age children,’ schools will remain open.
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Snuneymuxw Knowledge Keeper supports youth to connect to xpey’ (red cedar)
Through workshops with Indigenous youth, Dave Bodaly shares ‘the importance of cedar in our culture.’