Sarah Hunt / Tłaliłila’ogwa
@coastaljustice.bsky.social
writer. activist. prof.
CRC Indigenous Political Ecology @uvic
Indigenous feminist geographer.
Kwakwaka’wakw. 2SQ. She/her. 🐟🌈
www.coastaljustice.ca
CRC Indigenous Political Ecology @uvic
Indigenous feminist geographer.
Kwakwaka’wakw. 2SQ. She/her. 🐟🌈
www.coastaljustice.ca
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(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive
Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization...
www.tandfonline.com
Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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Big news today, as Ecuador has revoked the licence for a Canadian company to develop a massive gold mine.
Brandi Morin reported from Ecuador on this mining project in May, with locals telling her it was a ‘ticking time bomb.’
Brandi’s feature: ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
Brandi Morin reported from Ecuador on this mining project in May, with locals telling her it was a ‘ticking time bomb.’
Brandi’s feature: ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
Brandi Morin in Ecuador: Indigenous water defenders take on a Canadian mining giant
The proposed Loma Larga gold mine represents a ‘ticking time bomb’ for arsenic contamination in the region
ricochet.media
October 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Big news today, as Ecuador has revoked the licence for a Canadian company to develop a massive gold mine.
Brandi Morin reported from Ecuador on this mining project in May, with locals telling her it was a ‘ticking time bomb.’
Brandi’s feature: ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
Brandi Morin reported from Ecuador on this mining project in May, with locals telling her it was a ‘ticking time bomb.’
Brandi’s feature: ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
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“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones.
Fifty years of the Waitangi Tribunal | E-Tangata
“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones...
e-tangata.co.nz
October 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“In this 50th anniversary year, the Tribunal and Te Tiriti are under a sustained attack from perhaps the most anti-Tiriti government that we’ve seen since the Tribunal was established.” — Carwyn Jones.
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Paige and Steph were invited by Lil'wat and N'Quatqua to see why the temporary park closure matters, not only to the First Nations but to the park itself. A beautiful story to read & witness on the last day of the fall closure.
For the last month, Joffre Lakes Park has been closed to the public, as Lil'wat and N'Quatqua members reconnect with their traditional territory. Here's what one of B.C.'s busiest parks looks like at rest. By @sevawood.bsky.social with photos by Paige Taylor White. thenarwhal.ca/joffre-lakes...
What Joffre Lakes Park looks like at rest | The Narwhal
A month-long closure ends Oct. 3. Here’s what Instagram-famous Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw, looks like when it’s quiet and closed to the public
thenarwhal.ca
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Paige and Steph were invited by Lil'wat and N'Quatqua to see why the temporary park closure matters, not only to the First Nations but to the park itself. A beautiful story to read & witness on the last day of the fall closure.
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This is a must-read for anyone in academia. While it focuses on administrative positions in certain parts, it's such an excellent resource with stats and critiques of all the indigenization/reconciliation rhetoric that it's got something for everyone. Highly recommend.
September 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is a must-read for anyone in academia. While it focuses on administrative positions in certain parts, it's such an excellent resource with stats and critiques of all the indigenization/reconciliation rhetoric that it's got something for everyone. Highly recommend.
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There are literally over 30 legal orders and a half dozen resolutions from First Nations Leadership telling ISC what to do next- comply with the orders, stop fighting First Nations kids in court and pull back discriminatory policies and conduct.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is one week away.
To talk more about September 30 and some other important issues, APTN News spoke with Indigenous Services Canada Minister Mandy Gull-Masty.
To talk more about September 30 and some other important issues, APTN News spoke with Indigenous Services Canada Minister Mandy Gull-Masty.
Is reconciliation at a standstill? We ask the minister of Indigenous Services Canada | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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September 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
There are literally over 30 legal orders and a half dozen resolutions from First Nations Leadership telling ISC what to do next- comply with the orders, stop fighting First Nations kids in court and pull back discriminatory policies and conduct.
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"By artificially pitting recognition of and respect for First Nations’ human rights against the interests of who he refers to as “real people”, Premier Eby has employed a strategy that belongs firmly in a dark and less enlightened time." www.ubcic.bc.ca/comments_of_... #bcpoli
Comments of Premier David Eby counterproductive to true, lasting reconciliation
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
www.ubcic.bc.ca
September 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"By artificially pitting recognition of and respect for First Nations’ human rights against the interests of who he refers to as “real people”, Premier Eby has employed a strategy that belongs firmly in a dark and less enlightened time." www.ubcic.bc.ca/comments_of_... #bcpoli
Join us at UVic First Peoples House on Sept 25 & 26 for "Jurisdiction Back: Restoring Indigenous Governance through an Ethic of Care". Such an incredible gathering of Indigenous law & governance practitioners, scholars, artists, visionaries. Free registration forms.gle/i1WaihgZ6aMn...
September 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Join us at UVic First Peoples House on Sept 25 & 26 for "Jurisdiction Back: Restoring Indigenous Governance through an Ethic of Care". Such an incredible gathering of Indigenous law & governance practitioners, scholars, artists, visionaries. Free registration forms.gle/i1WaihgZ6aMn...
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Some things I learned while writing this story on Canada’s new “pillar” of Aboriginal Law, Cowichan Tribes v. Canada, for @thetyee.ca:
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Inside Richmond’s Precedent-Setting Cowichan Tribes v. Canada Case | The Tyee
The BC Supreme Court decision affirms Aboriginal title on private lands. What’s next?
thetyee.ca
August 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Some things I learned while writing this story on Canada’s new “pillar” of Aboriginal Law, Cowichan Tribes v. Canada, for @thetyee.ca:
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thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
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thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
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"UBCIC raises our hands to the survivors, elders, and leaders for their strength in retelling the extremely traumatic stories of what happened to children at St. Augustine’s Residential School, and to the investigators for documenting and sharing evidence" www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_stands...
UBCIC Stands with Survivors of St. Augustine’s Residential School Following Further Investigation by shíshálh
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
www.ubcic.bc.ca
August 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
"UBCIC raises our hands to the survivors, elders, and leaders for their strength in retelling the extremely traumatic stories of what happened to children at St. Augustine’s Residential School, and to the investigators for documenting and sharing evidence" www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_stands...
What is surprising is not the sexual harassment of students by a prof but the fact that this story made it into the news. How about an investigative report on the use of NDAs by universities during settlement of sexual harassment & assault investigations?
Renowned University of Victoria professor fired over sexual harassment allegations | CBC News
The University of Victoria has fired one of its longest-serving professors after complaints he sexually harassed two women — including a graduate student. In his 45 years at UVic, Robert Gifford pione...
www.cbc.ca
August 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What is surprising is not the sexual harassment of students by a prof but the fact that this story made it into the news. How about an investigative report on the use of NDAs by universities during settlement of sexual harassment & assault investigations?
“We are deeply saddened, but these numbers are not a surprise to us. We have always believed our Elders. This wasn’t a school, it wasn’t a choice, and the children who attended were stolen,” said Chief Lenora Joe. “We didn’t need the GPR to prove this happened; we always had enough proof to know.”
Saddened to learn today that shíshálh Nation researchers for the St. Augustine's Residential School in BC have, through Survivor testimony, historical research, and archaeological technology, located an additional 41 unmarked burials: shishalh.com/2025/08/15/s...
shíshálh Residential School Survivors lead researchers to locate an additional 41 unmarked graves - Shishalh Nation
For Immediate Release August 15, 2025 Sechelt, BC shíshálh Nation swiya (Sechelt, BC) – shíshálh Nation is saddened by the findings of an additional 41 unmarked graves identified by archaeologists, br...
shishalh.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“We are deeply saddened, but these numbers are not a surprise to us. We have always believed our Elders. This wasn’t a school, it wasn’t a choice, and the children who attended were stolen,” said Chief Lenora Joe. “We didn’t need the GPR to prove this happened; we always had enough proof to know.”
Huu-ay-aht territories are experiencing a new swiftly growing wildfire - ignited only yesterday, it is now upwards of 1300 hectares. Keeping community & loved ones in the area in my thoughts as they face yet another impact of climate change on their lands and lives.
Wildfire south of Port Alberni, B.C., grows aggressively, knocking out power for hundreds | CBC News
The Mount Underwood fire near Port Alberni, B.C., has grown to 859 hectares and knocked out power for 500 B.C. Hydro customers southwest of the blaze.
www.cbc.ca
August 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Huu-ay-aht territories are experiencing a new swiftly growing wildfire - ignited only yesterday, it is now upwards of 1300 hectares. Keeping community & loved ones in the area in my thoughts as they face yet another impact of climate change on their lands and lives.
Brilliant conversation on the meaning of “climate justice” from local Indigenous relations to global circuits of power: “Syilx-led Climate Justice in a Global Context”, featuring Jeanette Armstrong in dialogue with @naomiaklein.bsky.social & Onyx Sloan Morgan. www.icerpress.ca/live-recorde...
Syilx-led Climate Justice in a Global Context (2023/2024) — ICER PRESS
www.icerpress.ca
July 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Brilliant conversation on the meaning of “climate justice” from local Indigenous relations to global circuits of power: “Syilx-led Climate Justice in a Global Context”, featuring Jeanette Armstrong in dialogue with @naomiaklein.bsky.social & Onyx Sloan Morgan. www.icerpress.ca/live-recorde...
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"We will not be legislated to; we will uphold our Title and Rights recognized under section 35 of the Constitution. We are the First Peoples of the Land; we are not Canada’s Indians." - Chief Don Tom www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_gravel...
After Summit, UBCIC Gravely Concerned with Canada’s Shift Away from Consent and Environmental Protections
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
www.ubcic.bc.ca
July 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"We will not be legislated to; we will uphold our Title and Rights recognized under section 35 of the Constitution. We are the First Peoples of the Land; we are not Canada’s Indians." - Chief Don Tom www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_gravel...
Coastal First Nations are not just another Canadian ‘stakeholder’ but self-governing Nations for whom “anything that proposes to send crude oil through our coastal waters is a non-starter.” Read the open letter from Heiltsuk Chief K̓áwáziɫ Marilyn Slett coastalfirstnations.ca/resources/op...
Open Letter: CFN Urges Prime Minister Carney to Uphold Oil Tanker Moratorium on BC’s North Coast
Coastal First Nations sends an open letter to Prime Minister Carney, vowing never to permit oil tanker traffic through the Great Bear Sea.
coastalfirstnations.ca
July 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Coastal First Nations are not just another Canadian ‘stakeholder’ but self-governing Nations for whom “anything that proposes to send crude oil through our coastal waters is a non-starter.” Read the open letter from Heiltsuk Chief K̓áwáziɫ Marilyn Slett coastalfirstnations.ca/resources/op...
Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive
Revisiting Cole Harris’s Making Native Space, this article responds to Harris’s assertion that settler attitudes toward Indigenous people were not gendered but that, rather, it was the civilization...
www.tandfonline.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Excited to share that my article "(Re)Making Native Space: Locating Gendered Geographies of Law, Territoriality, and Dispossession in the Colonial Archive" is out today with the Annals of the AAG @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cornell law professor Sandra Babcock discusses a major new human rights report she co-authored, which adds to the growing consensus that "Israel has committed and is committing the crime of apartheid" against Palestinians.
The report was released Thursday, on what Palestinians mark as Nakba Day.
The report was released Thursday, on what Palestinians mark as Nakba Day.
May 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Cornell law professor Sandra Babcock discusses a major new human rights report she co-authored, which adds to the growing consensus that "Israel has committed and is committing the crime of apartheid" against Palestinians.
The report was released Thursday, on what Palestinians mark as Nakba Day.
The report was released Thursday, on what Palestinians mark as Nakba Day.
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We’re much more lethal outside of the house…21 extra days to power up the movement to get rid of them #onetermgovt
May 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
We’re much more lethal outside of the house…21 extra days to power up the movement to get rid of them #onetermgovt
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"It's been three years since the deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Noelle O'Soup and Chelsea Poorman."
"If you were to help someone hide a crime, that in itself would be a crime."
"So I don't know what happens when our justice system does it."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Genocide
"If you were to help someone hide a crime, that in itself would be a crime."
"So I don't know what happens when our justice system does it."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Genocide
Families Fight for Answers in Deaths of Three Young Indigenous Women
Three years later, loved ones say they’ve hit a brick wall with police, coroners and MCFD.
thetyee.ca
May 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"It's been three years since the deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Noelle O'Soup and Chelsea Poorman."
"If you were to help someone hide a crime, that in itself would be a crime."
"So I don't know what happens when our justice system does it."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Genocide
"If you were to help someone hide a crime, that in itself would be a crime."
"So I don't know what happens when our justice system does it."
#BritishColumbia #Canada #Policing #Genocide
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"The investigations into the tragic deaths of Tatyanna, Chelsea and Noelle are shocking and shameful displays of systemic racial discrimination which showcase the enduring failures of the Canadian justice and child welfare systems." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/justice_for_...
Tatyanna Harrison’s Cause of Death Disputed by Independent Forensic Pathologist: Families, Justice For Girls, and UBCIC Call for Coroner’s Inquest into Deaths of Tatyanna Harrison, Chelsea Poorman and...
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
www.ubcic.bc.ca
May 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"The investigations into the tragic deaths of Tatyanna, Chelsea and Noelle are shocking and shameful displays of systemic racial discrimination which showcase the enduring failures of the Canadian justice and child welfare systems." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/justice_for_...
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“Search ‘Lapu Lapu Day’ and results are about the Vancouver attack. I want to share what the celebrations were meant to be about.”
What Carries Us Through Our Darkest Days | The Tyee
One week after the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy, a community stands together.
thetyee.ca
May 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“Search ‘Lapu Lapu Day’ and results are about the Vancouver attack. I want to share what the celebrations were meant to be about.”
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A 250-year plan is in the works to protect Okanagan-Similkameen watersheds
A quarter-millennium is a long way into the future — but for syilx Okanagan leaders, it’s essential to protecting everyone’s siwɬkw (water) for generations
indiginews.com/features/a-2...
A quarter-millennium is a long way into the future — but for syilx Okanagan leaders, it’s essential to protecting everyone’s siwɬkw (water) for generations
indiginews.com/features/a-2...
A 250-year plan is in the works to protect Okanagan-Similkameen watersheds
A quarter-millennium is a long way into the future — but for syilx Okanagan leaders, it’s essential to protecting everyone’s siwɬkw (water) for generations
indiginews.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A 250-year plan is in the works to protect Okanagan-Similkameen watersheds
A quarter-millennium is a long way into the future — but for syilx Okanagan leaders, it’s essential to protecting everyone’s siwɬkw (water) for generations
indiginews.com/features/a-2...
A quarter-millennium is a long way into the future — but for syilx Okanagan leaders, it’s essential to protecting everyone’s siwɬkw (water) for generations
indiginews.com/features/a-2...
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Donate to Help Christi and Nox recover from the Lapu Lapu tragedy, organized by Amanda Koop
Hi, my name is Amanda. My good friend Christi and her son, Nox (11… Amanda Koop needs your support for Help Christi and Nox recover from the Lapu Lapu tragedy
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April 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Help Christi & Nox recover
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Help Christi & Nox recover
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Help bring Ate Rizza home
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Help Bring Rowel Home
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SUPPORT FOR VAL DE LA CRUZ & SON AFTER LAPU LAPU INCIDENT
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