In advance of National Indigenous Peoples Day, we take a look at some of the best Indigenous stories we’ve covered across Northwest BC.

National Indigenous Peoples Day, recognises and celebrate the history, heritage, resilience and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people across Canada. Stories that are not only linked to people and community, but to the land and water.

Today we’ll hear stories about the importance of basket ball at the 63rd all native basketball tournament in Prince Rupert, the premier sporting event of the year for Indigenous basketball trams from across the province and beyond. We’ll also hear what it sounds like to be on the frontlines of the fight for Indigenous rights, during the years long conflict between the Wet’suwet’en Nation and the Coastal Gas Link pipeline project, following Chief Na’Moks’s appearance at the RBC AGM earlier this year, one of the major backers of the pipeline project.

Pam will also take us through Morgan Burdens story on the repatriation of a Nisga’a totem poll and how the community is celebrating its return, but also facing the reality of more missing cultural artefacts that were stolen many years ago. On Haida Gwaii Pam covers the renaming of a municipality on the Northern Archipelago to its traditional name, Daajing Giids, and why using Haida names to describe Haida places is a big deal.

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day.