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.
Something's stirring on Haida Gwaii
Heiltsuk and Haida women came together in Haida Gwaii for a Women's Dialogue Session focused on women's leadership, traditional and cultural knowledge, and coastal unity.
This First Nation is four steps ahead of climate change
It's as if Chief Patrick Michell of the Kanaka Indian Bar Band has a superpower. With what appears to be a normal set of eyes, his vision stretches back to the last 8,000 years of his people and ahead, to a future of climate chaos and unshakeable hope.
Hundreds march to honour and remember the lives of missing and murdered women
Myrna Cranmer was holding a flyer, filled from top to bottom with names in small font. They were the names of women who were no longer alive.
EXCLUSIVE: 'Paternalistic' First Nations plan exposed in Jim Carr's pipeline memos
"Paternalistic," "inadequate," and "unrealistic." These are some of the words peppered throughout memos prepared for Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr regarding the federal government's efforts to consult with First Nations about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. All of them warned that First Nations wanted more time to ensure their rights were accommodated.
In case you missed the most feminist Golden Globes ever
The 75th annual Golden Globe award ceremony was the most feminist one to date — women wearing black in a massive show of solidarity, eight prominent actresses bringing social justice activists as dates, speech after bold speech — last night, women told the world, "time's up."
Five Indigenous women rocking their businesses with beauty
They are creators, entrepreneurs, teachers and artisans, remixing tradition, creating pieces for ceremony, powwows, self-care and fashion — making the world more beautiful with every bead, shell and prayer-filled piece of work.
Nuxalk people roll up their sleeves to construct a solution
The Nuxalk Nation started their own apprenticeship program, taking the housing situation into their own hands, literally. Through the community-based program, which matches empowered Nuxalk apprentices with advanced skilled workers, the Nation is building their own homes again, as their ancestors once did, from the ground up.
First Nations powering up B.C.
First Nations have managed land protection and conservation since time immemorial and those ancient values have powered up the modern energy sector in B.C. By the end of 2016, 30 First Nations had operational solar, run-of-river, geothermal, wind, and biomass projects powering their communities and the province.
Tug in distress near Bella Bella highlights need for Indigenous-led marine response
Stormy weather left the American-owned Jake Shearer vessel, carrying up to 10,000 tons of fuel stranded, just off the coast of Bella Bella. The vessel was in distress just near Goose Island. This is an essential food harvesting spot for the Heiltsuk.
An Indigenous sisterhood empowers solar panel solutions
This is not a protest story. There’s a reason why women who sleep on fish farms in the Broughton Archipelago prefer to be called observers, not occupiers. And there's a reason why the women leading the tiny house movement in the path of the $7.4-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline prefer to be called pro-life rather than anti-anything else.