Emilee Gilpin
Advisor, First Nations Forward | Victoria, B.C. |
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About Emilee Gilpin
Emilee Gilpin is a key advisor for National Observer's 'First Nations Forward' special report. Emilee produced most of the reporting on the first two years of the series from 2017-2019. With a keen focus on inspirational stories of leadership and success, she traveled through British Columbia, building relationships and documenting stories of governance, self-determination and alternative ways forward. For the past year, she served as Managing Director.
Her stunning visual, verbal and written journalism for First Nations Forward twice earned her the Canadian Association of Journalists nomination for "Emerging Indigenous Journalism."
A Michif nomad, she worked in the first 9 months of 2020 from Bahia, Brazil. She is Métis, Filipina, European (3rd & 4th gen. settler). She now resides in the traditional territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples.
Indigenous journalists talk about the past, present and future of journalism
Indigenous journalists do the job differently, and they always have. That's what Tristan Ahtone, Simon Moya-Smith, Angela Sterritt, Candis Callison and Julian Noisecat told National Observer's Emilee Gilpin when she asked about their experiences in the industry and their predictions for the future of a steadily shifting media landscape in North America. Here's what they had to say.
A $100 billion national Indigenous economic agenda
Indigenomics Institute founder Carol Anne Hilton released a plan Thursday at the Assembly of First Nations meetings in Ottawa for a new agenda for Indigenous economies, partnerships and investments in areas of business, industry and private sectors.
TransCanada takes Unist'ot'en Community leaders to court
TransCanada served an injunction on Nov. 26, 2018, against two leaders of the Unist'ot'en camp, accusing the members of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation of blocking access in the area around the Morice River Bridge. Hereditary leaders of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation stand unified against pipelines in the territories they are obliged to protect through their traditional system of governance.
First Nations leaders bring their fight for the coast to Ottawa
"I was so emotional. They were talking directly about proposed marine terminals and the increase in tanker traffic and how it would affect the west coast," she said. "They were asking, if there's a spill, who's going to be held accountable? Who's going to clean it up?"
B.C. urged to protect Indigenous rights
The B.C. government is being urged in a new report to revitalize its relations with Indigenous Peoples, by adopting sweeping changes to its laws and policies to ensure the protection of human rights.
Government funding for conservation on unceded territories announced through pipeline protests
The federal and B.C. governments announced a $14 million conservation investment. People protested the federal government's support for pipelines at the event.
Indigenous-led guardian projects get $5.7 million
On Nov. 13, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, Catherine McKenna, announced that 28 Indigenous-led projects have been selected for funding of $5.7 million, as a part of the Indigenous Guardians Pilot Program.
Native author Tommy Orange on Trump, the power of fiction and supermassive black holes
Tommy Orange, an Oakland-based author, was surprised his first novel 'There There' hit The New York Times best seller list, 11 weeks in a row. In an interview with National Observer, Orange told reporter Emilee Gilpin about rarely reading as a kid, the important role of fiction in society, and how the success of his first novel rode a strange parallel to Donald Trump's presidency.
WATCH: Gregor Robertson muses over 'City of Reconciliation'
Indigenous leaders wonder if new council will keep Reconciliation going.
Justin Trudeau exonerates chiefs and learns to do business 'the Tsilhqot'in way'
The Tsilhqot'in people have gained a new story to pass down to generations to come, after members gathered as a mass force for Prime Minister Trudeau's visit to Tsilhqot'in title land, to engage in ceremony and apologize to the community "the Tsilhqot'in way" for the betrayal and killings of war chiefs in 1864.