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Nisga’a writer Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces has won a Governor General’s Literary Award, an annual prize that honours Canadian excellence in literature and awards the winners $25,000 to boot.  Abel’s novel reimagines James Fenimore Cooper’s 19th-century text The Last of the Mohicans from a modern urban perspective, as he explores what it means to be Indigenous without …

The trip was life changing for many of these Nisga’a. Like salmon, they felt an inner need to return to a specific creek, a specific home. Mansell is hopeful she’ll be able to live in her home community one day. She’s already started applying for jobs and looking for work …