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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.

By Tracy Sherlock | Features | 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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By Emilee Gilpin | Features, 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.

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By Emilee Gilpin | 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.

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By Emilee Gilpin | Features, 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.

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By Emilee Gilpin | 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.

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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.

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By Emilee Gilpin | Humour, Entertainment, Energy, Politics, Culture | October 16th 2018

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