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Special report

First Nations Forward

Produced in collaboration with the Real Estate Foundation of BC, I-SEA, Vancouver Foundation, Vancity, Catherine Donnelly Foundation, Donner Canadian Foundation, Clayoquot Biosphere Trust,  North Foundation, Willow Grove Foundation, Canadian Center for Journalism, Victoria Foundation, and the Port Moody Foundation. National Observer retains full editorial control over the topics and the reporting. 

119 Articles

'Clean energy aligns with who we are as Indigenous people'

Michelle Myers and Chief Russel Myers Ross of Yuneŝit'in, are two clean energy leaders in the Tŝilhqot'in Nation with strong visions for the future. Myers believes renewable energy aligns with her people's values and connection to the land while Chief Ross has played a major role developing the Dasiqox Tribal Park, an area protected for Tŝilhqot’in traditional laws to be upheld and enacted.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Energy
  • Culture
March 28th 2019

Tŝilhqot'in’s ‘spiritual war’ to protect land, water, rights

The Tŝilhqot'in Nation is at spiritual war with Taseko Mines, which has for over two decades been trying to build what would be the world's largest copper and gold mine at a sacred elevated lake the nation knows as Teztan Biny. Though the mine has been rejected twice at the federal level, they have the greenlight on a drilling program, forcing the nation back to court to seek an injunction.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Culture
March 21st 2019
Shaunna Morgan Siegers

Indigenous guardians, leaders hope to build a national watchman program

Shaunna Morgan Siegers was first called by the land and water when she was 18, halfway through her first year at university.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Tracy Sherlock
  • News
March 14th 2019
Justin Trudeau, Inuit, Iqaluit

Six things you need to know about Justin Trudeau's apology to Inuit communities

It was an apology decades in the making. Initially delayed for a day by a storm, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Iqaluit, capital of the Arctic Canadian territory of Nunavut, on March 8, to deliver an historic apology to Inuit communities. Here's what you need to know about the issue and why it matters.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Morgan Sharp
  • Analysis
March 12th 2019

First Nations, partners launch consultation for development of Vancouver's Jericho Lands

Centuries ago, the Jericho Lands were home to large cedar plank longhouses, where thousands of people from up and down the Pacific Coast would gather. Today, their descendants are gathering to decide what to build there now.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Tracy Sherlock
  • News
March 6th 2019

Inuit leader says Trudeau government's new language bill imposes a 'colonial' system

The national Inuit organization in Canada says the Trudeau government’s new Indigenous languages bill has failed to address Inuit rights.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Carl Meyer
  • News
  • Politics
February 5th 2019

The Dzawada’enuxw First Nation files lawsuit against Canada on fish farms dispute

The Dzawada’enuxw First Nation filed an 'Aboriginal rights' lawsuit against the government of Canada, challenging the federal permits that allow Atlantic farmed salmon farms in their traditional territories. Chiefs, artists and community members traveled to Vancouver Thursday for a press conference and art exhibit at night to kick off the Nation's legal action.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Culture
January 10th 2019

Support for Wet’suwet’en drives Trudeau to delay speech, change venues

Anger at Canada’s support for fossil fuel expansion boiled over Tuesday, forcing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to physically change venues before giving a speech to Indigenous leaders in Ottawa — where he failed to mention a blockade in British Columbia that had spurred a nationwide solidarity movement.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Carl Meyer
  • News
  • Energy
  • Politics
January 8th 2019

Clean energy, court victories and historic firsts

Reporter Emilee Gilpin takes a look back at 2018.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Politics
  • Culture
December 24th 2018

Indigenous journalists talk about the past, present and future of journalism

Indigenous journalists do the job differently, and they always have. That's what Tristan Ahtone, Simon Moya-Smith, Angela Sterritt, Candis Callison and Julian Noisecat told National Observer's Emilee Gilpin when she asked about their experiences in the industry and their predictions for the future of a steadily shifting media landscape in North America. Here's what they had to say.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • US News
  • Politics
  • Culture
December 11th 2018

Native author Tommy Orange on Trump, the power of fiction and supermassive black holes

Tommy Orange, an Oakland-based author, was surprised his first novel 'There There' hit The New York Times best seller list, 11 weeks in a row. In an interview with National Observer, Orange told reporter Emilee Gilpin about rarely reading as a kid, the important role of fiction in society, and how the success of his first novel rode a strange parallel to Donald Trump's presidency.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • US News
  • Politics
  • Culture
November 13th 2018

Justin Trudeau exonerates chiefs and learns to do business 'the Tsilhqot'in way'

The Tsilhqot'in people have gained a new story to pass down to generations to come, after members gathered as a mass force for Prime Minister Trudeau's visit to Tsilhqot'in title land, to engage in ceremony and apologize to the community "the Tsilhqot'in way" for the betrayal and killings of war chiefs in 1864.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Politics
  • Culture
November 5th 2018

Two communities take reconciliACTION into their own hands

Jatinder Singh never imagined that a street sign in Victoria's Cook Street village would take him on a journey that stretched back to 1864.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Culture
October 30th 2018

Poetry, pipelines and politics: An interview with Indigenous author Eden Robinson

Reporter Emilee Gilpin sat down with award-winning author Eden Robinson at the beginning of her newest book launch to discuss nothing less than her success, dating life and the latest LNG pipeline project in her territory.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • Humour
  • Entertainment
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Culture
October 16th 2018

Asia Youngman and Trevor Mack on their new film

Emerging Indigenous directors Asia Youngman and Trevor Mack premiered their short documentary 'In the Valley of Wild Horses' at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Their showings sold-out, highlighting an increased interest in community-based story-telling.
First Nations Forward
By
  • Emilee Gilpin
  • News
  • Entertainment
  • Culture
October 12th 2018

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