AHAaron Hemens

1. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Aaron Hemens, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter IndigiNews

   Community mourns Joan Phillip, Amshen, who fought for justice and ‘loved very hard’ (opens the original)

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   Fearless. Fierce. Wise. Courageous. Cherished. Those were just a few of the words that colleagues and loved ones used to describe the late Joan Phillip, Amshen, at her funeral service in snpink’tn (Penticton, B.C.) on Wednesday. Before Amshen was laid to rest in the community cemetery in syilx Okanagan homelands, leaders, dignitaries, and people from near and far packed the Outma Sqilx’W Cultural School’s gym — with hundreds more watching a livestream online — to remember the beloved l

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2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Aaron Hemens, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter IndigiNews

   In the Okanagan desert, snakes offer lessons on protecting a fragile ecosystem (opens the original)

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   The snake was close. Lindsay Whitehead could hear it in the receiver strapped to her chest. For nearly an hour in the sweltering desert heat on June 30, Whitehead and cnúk Jenna Bower had crossed a sunbaked field above Osoyoos Lake, stepping through sagebrush and rare antelope-brush while Whitehead held a radio antenna over the land. The receiver’s electronic ping grew louder as they neared the edge of a bluff, then softened whenever they tried another direction. Somewhere beneath them was a

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