Indigenous

Indigenous

Indigenous organizations push to alleviate housing crisis, as full-time workers use local homeless shelter

Victoria Native Friendship Centre says that rising housing instability exacerbates other challenges Indigenous people are trying to navigate

Indigenous

The makings of a traditional Coast Salish pit cook

Robyn Bell
November 3, 2023

Camosun College hosted the pit cook for students from the Centre for Indigenous Education & Community Connections

Indigenous

Victoria Symphony scores with song for miniseries Bones of Crows

Mark Brennae
September 22, 2023

The first segment of the five-part miniseries that has been called Canada’s version of Roots, the iconic 1977 mini-series that explored Black slavery in the United States, aired earlier this week.

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Tseshaht announce 67 deaths confirmed through research, and 17 possible grave sites, at former Alberni residential school

By Cameron Welch
February 22, 2023

Survivor stories, archives, and ground technology used in first phase of findings

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Nuxalk First Nation repatriates totem pole from Royal BC Museum

By Michael John Lo
February 13, 2023

Nuxalk’mc celebrate as totem pole begins repatriation journey from Victoria to Bella Coola