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A newly raised totem pole at Port Alberni’s waterfront is a mother for all of the lost children who never returned home from residential school, according to the carver behind the multi-year project.

During the unveiling of n̓aasn̓aasʔaqsa (pronounced ‘naas naas uksah’), Tim Paul tied the…

Sheltered within a large tide pool along the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet, Kenneth Lucas took a deep breath before diving five-metres to the ocean floor. 

Armed with a weight belt and snorkel fins the length of his arms, the 15-year-old secured himself in place by clinging to a rock.…

A starfish sits on a rock at low tide on Chesterman Beach Beach in Tofino on August 25, as fog hangs over the shore. (Melissa Renwick photos) 

A thick layer of fog wrapped around the Broken Group Islands on an early morning in late-July. It acted like a veil, withholding the beauty of the islands’ white sandy beaches, rocky outcrops, and the surrounding turquoise waters.

The region is a mecca for kayakers and boaters alike who…

In recognition of this year's graduates, here is the 2021 Nuu-chah-nulth Graduation Celebration for Secondary and Post-Secondary students. (Mike Watts video)

Most families from Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation had four totem poles displayed in front of their homes before European settlers arrived on the west coast in the late-1700s.

When a woman married into a tribe, a totem pole was raised to depict her family’s history. It would stand next to…

Excitement was in the air as Ahousaht’s graduating class of 2021 prepared for the first indoor celebration since the pandemic struck more than a year ago.

The Commencement Ceremony took place on the school track, allowing more people to enjoy the celebration in the larger, outdoor space…

On June 26 dozens of people – most wearing orange shorts in recognition of residential school survivors and victims – progressed from the RCMP detachment to Maffeo Sutton Park at Nanaimo’s waterfront. The Indigenous dance group Butterflies in Spirit held a performance, followed by speakers…

News of the remains of 215 undocumented children unearthed at the Kamloops Indian Residential School continues to reverberate through Nuu-chah-nulth communities, prompting the Ditidaht Ha’wiih to venture to another former site to make a statement.

Although Lisa Marie Young went missing 19 years ago, Nanaimo police have encountered new information into her disappearance over the last year and a half.

A press conference was held today at the Nanaimo RCMP detachment, where family members of the Tla-o-qui-aht woman and police…

A group of youth from the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation waded into the ocean along the beach in front of Esowista, near Tofino. Clad in wetsuits, some clumsily gripped onto surf boards while others proudly carried boogie boards overhead.

The waves were choppy and inconsistent, but the youth…

The grounds of the former Ahousaht Indian Residential School are now cleared of all buildings as the first nation begins prepping the site for a new healing center. But in the wake of news of hundreds of undocumented remains found at the former Kamloops residential school site, the nation will…