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Bringing back dugout canoe culture, starting with students
Around 500 students in West Kelowna and Kamloops were carving traditional dugout canoes at school — now their carving teachers are finishing the job.
Don’t panic, they have bannock: How Kekuli Cafe is adapting to the COVID-19 reality
Cafe prepares for the future as B.C. economy reopens
Rylie ‘Coyote’ Marchand: From ballet slippers to MMA champion
The eighteen-year-old explains what it’s been like to train during COVID-19 and how she hopes to fight in front of her hometown post-pandemic.
First Nations seek data sovereignty amid COVID-19
Pandemic highlights need to ensure better data is collected and shared.
We are the children of the survivors of past pandemics
'The resiliency has been passed down to further generations, so we are able to survive these times of struggle'
Revitalizing a language, one video call at a time
How instructors and students are staying connected and adapting to keep the Syilx language alive.
Being out on the land for Indigenous communities is being home
People of the Okanagan Nation are engaging with the land during COVID-19 — and social media is playing a part.
IndigiNews, a new local journalism platform, launches to serve Indigenous communities
APTN and The Discourse launch IndigiNews into the economic headwinds of COVID-19 with the goal of developing a new business model for independent Indigenous news.
‘Justine’ to get her girls back from foster care
After a three-year battle, this Siksika mom says she’s reached an agreement with B.C. social workers to bring her daughters home.
Bringing back dugout canoe culture, starting with students
Around 500 students in West Kelowna and Kamloops were carving traditional dugout canoes at school — now their carving teachers are finishing the job.
Don’t panic, they have bannock: How Kekuli Cafe is adapting to the COVID-19 reality
Cafe prepares for the future as B.C. economy reopens
Rylie ‘Coyote’ Marchand: From ballet slippers to MMA champion
The eighteen-year-old explains what it’s been like to train during COVID-19 and how she hopes to fight in front of her hometown post-pandemic.
First Nations seek data sovereignty amid COVID-19
Pandemic highlights need to ensure better data is collected and shared.
We are the children of the survivors of past pandemics
'The resiliency has been passed down to further generations, so we are able to survive these times of struggle'
Revitalizing a language, one video call at a time
How instructors and students are staying connected and adapting to keep the Syilx language alive.
Being out on the land for Indigenous communities is being home
People of the Okanagan Nation are engaging with the land during COVID-19 — and social media is playing a part.
IndigiNews, a new local journalism platform, launches to serve Indigenous communities
APTN and The Discourse launch IndigiNews into the economic headwinds of COVID-19 with the goal of developing a new business model for independent Indigenous news.
‘Justine’ to get her girls back from foster care
After a three-year battle, this Siksika mom says she’s reached an agreement with B.C. social workers to bring her daughters home.