Odette Auger
Awards
Indigenous Journalists Association
2023 - Best Environmental Story
First place - for Best Environmental News for a story about Kitasoo Xai’xais and Gitga’at First Nations successfully banning black bear hunting in critical areas.
Indigenous Journalists Association
2023 - Best Column
Second Place for Best Column, for first person pieces published by Watershed Sentinel, IndigiNews, and La Converse.
Indigenous Journalists Association
2023 - Best Feature
Third Place, Best Feature category for a story about Awakening a Haida Clan that slept for 150 years.
Indigenous Journalists Association
2023 - Environmental News
Honourable mention for Best Environmental News category, for a story about Chiefs of the Okanagan Nation Alliance declaring grizzlies in Syilx Territory to be at-risk, and asking the US to match recovery initiatives.
Amnesty International Media Awards- Canada
2022 - Human Rights Reporting
Recognizing excellence in human-rights reporting. Honourable mention for Local/alternative media category.
Mindset Mental Health Reporting
2022 - Best in Youth Mental Health Reporting
For Gentle truth telling: How to talk to our youngest community members about residential schools, published in Windspeaker on July 8, 2021. Another story was selected as finalist, "Workers tackling anti-Indigenous racism say they faced scapegoating and ‘backlash’ at Island Health," published at IndigiNews, Feb 10, 2021. This award is funded in part by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, using a grant from Health Canada, and supported by CBC News.