News & Media COVERAGE
November 28, 2022
Lynda V. Makes, Atmos Magazine
“On Vancouver Island, Land Back Looks Like Going Home”
Indigenous-led land back efforts are underway on Canada’s Vancouver Island. The Frontline digs into this reclamation—and how the land’s original stewards are protecting forests from logging…
October 20, 2022
Desiree Mannila, Watershed Sentinel
“A Place to Make Things Right”
Hiladi Village is part of the Ma'amtagila Nation's process of living through "extinction," restoring sovereignty and reconnecting with their lands and waters…
January 25, 2022
Judith Lavoie, The Narwal
“New salmon farm proposals for B.C. coast raise questions about Ottawa’s promised 2025 phase-out”
December 16, 2021
Desiree Mannila, Watershed Sentinel
“The Ugly Side of ‘Beautiful Fish’ — A recent proposal of five fish farms leaves little hope for reconciliation for North Vancouver Island First Nations”
December 16, 2021
On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko, CBC Radio One
“A conversation with director Cam MacArthur & chief Makwala Rande Cook about the documentary, before they fall”
December 1, 2021
Sean Fagan, North Island Gazette
“First Nations land dispute breaks out at open house for proposed fish farm site”
November 27, 2021
Scott Weston, CTV News Vancouver Island
“Film focusing on the battle to preserve old-growth forests to premiere at Whistler Film Fest”
November 2021
Mark Worthington, ecologyst.ca
“land; relationship; ceremony A conversation with Mark Worthing and Rande Cook”
September 15, 2020
Serena Renner, TheTyee.ca
“Red Cedar: The Amazing Giving Tree”
September 2, 2020
Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Podcast
“Ma’amtagila Matriarch Tsastilqualus of House Umbas on Indigenous Sovereignty & Rematriation”
October 16, 2020
Jens Wieting, National Observer
“Time is running out to save BC’s old-growth forests”
October 4, 2019
Natasha Simpson, The Martlet
“Little Big House to be a base for environmentalist, anti-colonialist movement”
July 15, 2019
Judith Lavoie, The Narwhal
“The government agency at the centre of BC’s old-growth logging showdown”
December 20, 2018
Thomas Kervin, North Island Gazette
“‘Namgis princess advocating for Indigenous youth”
Hamasuwidi Maxine Matilpi receiving the 2016 BC Creative Achievement Award for First Nations Art
Latisha Wadhams, who has roots from Tlowitsis, Ma’amtagila, ‘Nakwaxda’xw, ‘Namgis, and Kwakiutl First Nations.
Photo: North Island Gazette
Dakota Smith of the Ma'amtagila First Nation visits the last unprotected stand of valley bottom old-growth forest in his territory in the Tessium Creek drainage on northern Vancouver Island in May 2019.
Photo: National Observer