Odette Auger

The Thacker Pass mine threatens Indigenous rights at Peehee Mu’huh, a sacred Paiute and Shoshone site, sparking resistance to extraction.

The "green," progressive veneer of southern California's lithium rush disguises serious social impacts that come hand in hand with environmental risks.

In Arizona, ‘green’ mining supporters don’t want to hear about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

After a legal setback, Apache Stronghold will keep fighting to protect their ancestral sacred lands at Oak Flat from copper mining devastation

Witnessing the spirit of Cedar as medicine– before the logging trucks arrive By Odette Auger Watch Read The majority of old growth Cedar forest on Vancouver Island is gone. Logging, the climate crisis and, some say, government policies are hampering…

It has been more than two years since Jared (Jay) Lowndes was shot and killed by RCMP. And Jay’s family and friends are not alone in their wait for justice. Many Indigenous communities across Canada are watching this case, explains Jay’s mother,…

Dene lands and water survived arsenic, lithium mining is next. Yellowknives Dene people have fished the waters of their traditional territory (known as Chief Drygeese territory), on the north shore of what is now called Great Slave Lake, since time…

Indigenous climate, water, and land defenders are fighting for our collective futures. How are protectors taking care, finding healing – and holding hope? Kim Haxton set out to support Indigenous resurgence by creating a retreat for participants to…

The mother and daughters of Jared Lowndes mark two years since the RCMP killing of their loved one by filing a civil law suit. Laura Holland, July 8, 2023, Grandview Park memorial. Photo by Nic Peerson. On July 8, 2021, my phone rang, with Homalco…

By Odette Auger Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Windspeaker.com The family of Dale Culver (Gitxsan/Wet’suwet’en) has been waiting for nearly six years for RCMP officers to show their faces in court. The family arrived at a Prince George court…

The Board of Directors of the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta, and the management and staff of Windspeaker Media, publisher of Windspeaker.com, send congratulations to staff reporter Shari Narine. She is the winner of the 2021-2022 Amnesty…

After sleeping for 150 years, the Haida clan of Laana Tsaadas is awakening. Building on careful research and closely-kept teachings, Laana Tsaadas is celebrating the first mask dance in five generations that marked the return of ceremonies once made…

Kitasoo Xai’xais and Gitga’at First Nations have successfully banned black bear hunting in the parts of their territories most critical to the beautiful Moksgm'ol, (Spirit Bears). Klemtu and Hartley Bay have the highest concentration of white bears.…

My chi-nookmis knew the mashkiki — which means ‘strength of the earth’ in Anishinaabemowin, and used it to heal her family through and beyond generations. The day from my childhood with my chi-nookmis (great-grandmother) is vivid in my memory. We’re…

Ma mère ne me disait pas « je t’aime », mais elle le montrait dans chacun de ses gestes. J’admirais ses mains brunes, lisses et robustes. J’ai le souvenir très net d’avoir six ou sept ans et de regarder ses belles mains. En grandissant, ces mains ont…

Families are struggling to know how to talk with their kids about residential schools. The news keeps coming in waves as many hundreds of children’s graves are recovered at residential schools across the country, and those waves will continue to…

Sandy Lake is a remote and isolated community located approximately 374 km north of Kenora, Ont. It’s on the northwest end of Sandy Lake along the Manitoba border and accessible by plane or a 145 km ice road from North Spirit Lake, a road that is…

L-R: Trena Black, Connor Sutton’s mother, with supporters and allies Jeff Welch, Sarah Wright Cardinal, Golden Nic, Veronica Vander Heiden demonstrating outside Royal Jubilee Hospital on July 22. Photo courtesy of Tania Dick. Friends, family and…