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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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Indigenous youth launch podcast tackling COVID myths and exploring current events
In Friendship is produced by Ally Reeder, Sherwin Strong and Kaleb Gambler out of the Wachiay Friendship Centre.
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Breaking: New class action alleges birth alerts are ‘a product of the state’s colonialist and paternalistic attitude’
Filed in B.C.’s Supreme Court, the proposed action marks the first step in a ‘national litigation effort’ representing parents subjected to birth alerts across Canada.
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New wildfire in syilx territory on Penticton Indian Band land
The fire started Saturday and is listed as out of control. No evacuation orders yet.
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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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‘The child-welfare system is residential schools part two,’ says lawyer
How Black and Métis lawyer Roslyn Chambers is holding colonial courts to account
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Nuxalk Nation stands together to uphold the laws of the land and waters
‘We’re saying no to mining, but it’s a spark in the community to talk about these bigger issues, to bring people together and reimagine a future where we’re actually healthy, and safe, living within our ecosystem in a good way,’ says Nuskmata
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Youth in and from government ‘care’ celebrate turning 19 and call for change
‘Today is a day for our voices to be heard.’
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syilx family explains how wildfire impacts their ceremonies
Children brought up in the culture put this loss in perspective.