Karen MacKenzie shares her understandings of ‘Wise Practices’
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Since hearing her mother’s advice, “be a good mixer,” Karen MacKenzie, Co-Founder and President of MacKintosh…
Advocacy
Vancouver’s Housing Freeze Draws Fire from Indigenous rights advocates.
By John Wirth (ANNews) – In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES), Indigenous people make up a disproportionate share of the unhoused population – a direct result…
Reconciliation and nourishing our communities with Tanya Tourangeau
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Indigenous Knowledge is embedded in understanding that for anyone to come to know things differently, first…
Turtle Island Solutions with Jeremy Makokis
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The Turtle – there are many teachings that comes with understanding this sacred being. One of…
What the Learning Journey is all about with Shawna Serniak
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The learning journey is a series of neural networks lighting up every time we get a…
Life is Sacred: Ruby Littlechild’s understanding of being good to one another
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Any tree that is firmly rooted into Mother Earth is nutrient dense because of the soil,…
Susie Houle: Co-creating values with Indigenous communities
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – “If one of us succeeds, we all succeed. We have that responsibility to one another to…
Victoria Gubbels connects and bridges Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – The longest journey a person will take in their lifetime is 18-inches – the journey from…
Nicole Robertson’s Journey into Truth Telling
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – When Nicole Robertson was an iskwesis, a little girl, she knew what her calling was, “I…
Cleansing with Sage as a Walk of Life with Thalia Aspeslet
By Laura Mushumanski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) – Let’s begin with striking a match against a box of Redbird matches and watch as a…