Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh journalist living and writing in North Vancouver. In 2022 she won the Canadian Association of Journalists' Emerging Indigenous Journalist award. She writes stories about Indigenous Rights, the arts, sustainability and social justice. She has worked with The Tyee, Media Indigena, CBC, CiTR 101.9 FM, and National Observer. She earned her Master of Journalism degree at the University of British Columbia. Her best days are spent wandering through the North Shore mountains.
Stories by Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
Yukon could get new Indigenous protected area the size of Vancouver Island
5 min. readThe Ross River Dena Council, Yukon and Canada are studying what it would take to...
As commercial herring fishery looms, W̱SÁNEĆ hereditary chiefs try to protect ‘last gasp’ of the fish in Salish Sea
With just days before the fishery opens in the Georgia Strait, W̱SÁNEĆ hereditary chiefs say...
3 years, 2 deadly atmospheric rivers. Is B.C. ready for the next one?
On the heels of another destructive atmospheric river that left 5 people dead, we have...
Tea Creek is growing food security for B.C. First Nations — but its own future is ‘fragile’
The program in northern B.C. has trained hundreds of Indigenous people, and fed thousands more....
What dinner in Burrard Inlet looked like 500 years ago
Tsleil-Waututh Nation hopes to use data on their ancestors’ diet to restore habitat and heal...
‘The risk is really high’: B.C. ministers backtrack on reconciliation initiative amid mounting political backlash
As the provincial election looms, First Nations leaders are frustrated with stalled progress on some...
Over half of Clayoquot Sound’s iconic forests are now protected — here’s how First Nations and B.C. did it
The Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations will now manage 760 square kilometres of old-growth conservancies...
$335-million investment is building a sustainable economy in the Great Bear Sea
West coast First Nations predict two decades of long-term funding will create 3,000 jobs and...
This new provincial park is the largest created in B.C. in a decade
The greatly expanded Klinse-Za / Twin Sisters Park will protect nearly 200,000 hectares of habitat...
