Heiltsuk

• ‘Koeye feels like home’: Heiltsuk land-based camp immerses youth in language and culture

  Koeye Camp has been running near Namu, B.C., making a difference in the lives of hundreds of Heiltsuk youth over the past 25 years.

  Canada

  Oct 24, 2023
  
• First Nation rejects VPD gift after officers who handcuffed man and granddaughter miss apology feast

  A planned apology feast involving Vancouver police and an Indigenous man and his granddaughter who were wrongly handcuffed soured when the officers involved did not attend.

  Canada

  Oct 25, 2022
  
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• Vancouver police constables not in attendance at Heiltsuk ceremony

  Const. Canon Wong and Const. Mitchell Tong, were invited to go to the apology ceremony as part of the settlement reached with Vancouver police earlier this year.

  Politics

  Oct 24, 2022
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• Indigenous Guardians are patrolling the front lines of climate change

  There are some 70 groups of Indigenous Guardians across Canada. Their formal network is only five years old, but the work they do goes back for hundreds of generations.

  Environment

  Nov 13, 2021
• B.C. privacy watchdog rejects First Nations’ bid to access location of COVID-19 cases

  The Heiltsuk Tribal Council, Tsilhqot'in National Government and Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council argued the province has a duty to disclose COVID-19 cases near their communities.

  Health

  Dec 17, 2020
• Heiltsuk First Nation tells yachts, outsiders to stay away amid coronavirus lockdown

  Members of the remote community near Bella Bella have grown increasingly vocal after observing a number of yachts and other pleasure vessels pulling into the nearby harbour, violating a travel advisory that has been in place for nearly a month.

  Apr 4, 2020
• ‘It’s a symbol of our strength’: Heiltsuk open first Big House in 120 years

  The last Big House in the First Nation's territory along the B.C. coast was destroyed, and the community has been planning and fundraising to build a new one for decades.

  Canada

  Oct 13, 2019
• Heiltsuk First Nation claims major victory in a dispute over herring fishery

  A First Nation on the B.C. coast is claiming a major victory in its fight against a controversial herring fishery.

  Apr 2, 2015