A feasibility study into the commercial potential of over 160 non-timber, wild-harvested products like mushrooms, berries, roots, seeds, plants, and tree barks unexpectedly evolved into something far more profound for the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) recently.
Gen7 Fuel (Gen7), Canada’s only 100 per cent Indigenous-owned retail gas and convenience store chain, has opened two new stations, one each in Osoyoos and Oliver, both in partnership with Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB).
The Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) and American forestry company Weyerhaeuser have struck what they describe as a “landmark partnership” to manage a tree farm licence (TFL) east of OIB reserve land near Oliver.
This month, Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) member Jane Stelkia will be turning 95 years old, making her the oldest person in the syilx Nation, and the OIB has extended an open invitation to help her celebrate.
The Oliver and District Arena Rehabilitation project’s primary work has been completed, the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen (RDOS) and the Town of Oliver have announced today (March 10).
A proposed nursery has prompted the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) to successfully request for an additional connection to the irrigation canal.
Clarence Louie, one of Canada’s most respected First Nations chiefs, told a Penticton audience made up of seniors that growing old is admired and worshiped in his culture.
It was the middle of the pandemic, and syilx Okanagan artist q̓ʷəq̓ʷcw̓íyaʔ (Chipmunk) Taylor Baptiste found herself feeling homesick for her Osoyoos Indian Band community.
By his own estimation, Francis Baptiste is in a good place. He’s already preparing to head into the studio in December as his next album comes together, and the Vancouver-based musician and Osoyoos Indian Band member is busy playing gigs focused on his second album – Sənk̓lip, the Trickster – which came out in early August.
Community members from across the syilx Okanagan Nation gathered last week for their annual autumn salmon feast, to honour ntytyix (Chief Salmon) and to celebrate successes restoring the fish to their ancestral waterways.
Upgrading facilities, retaining volunteers, and expanding arts and cultural programming are some of the highlights of the new comprehensive Oliver & District Recreation Master Plan.
Thieves have struck the Osoyoos Indian Band’s (OIB) youth archery program on Wednesday night making off with 20 youth bows and six dozen feathered arrows in carrying cases from a locked trailer near Senpaq’cin School.
The Osoyoos Festival Society is looking to shift the staging of Canada Day/Cherry Fiesta fireworks from Gyro Beach to a location across the lake as it lines up a fireworks company and has started a GoFundMe campaign.
The Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) and The Sutherland Group of Companies – a resource extraction and related industrial support group – have formed a limited partnership company Skemxist Solutions to tap the heavy industry market in Western Canada.
The Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) and pulp and paper mill Mercer Celgar (Celgar) are collaborating to rethink conventional practices around what has traditionally been considered uneconomical wood fibre.
The proposed Oliver and District Recreational Advisory Committee (ODRAC) makeup has been altered on its way to approval to include more members of the public.
Destination Osoyoos (DO) has announced that $60,000 garnered from the Online Accommodation Platform (OAP) tax will be used to help alleviate the employee housing shortage in Osoyoos.
The newly formed not-for-profit, Indigenous-led Okanagan Language and Sunshine Society (OKLSS) is aiming to build a solar-powered facility that will function as a training centre for First Nations.
The federal government has contributed $331,000 to help plant 70,000 trees as part of the Osoyoos Indian Band’s Nk’Mip Creek Wildfire Restoration project.
The drums thundered and songs echoed through Okanagan Falls on Friday April 14, when the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) let the people, and more importantly the land and the salmon know they are back on their traditional land.
Rising from the ashes of the Nk’Mip Creek wildfire of 2021 a unique partnership between the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) and a forestry company is being heralded for its innovative and holistic approach to restoration.
An invitation to join and witness a historic celebration by the Osoyoos Indian Band on its Original Indian reserve set aside in 1877 and taken away (stolen) by the Federal and Provincial governments in 1913.
Some would probably recognize Don Brogan from his “first cup of coffee in the morning, slightly disheveled, gravelly voiced early morning Facebook weather update” that he does from lakeside at Nk’Mip Campground & RV Park. It’s oddly compelling – if you’ve seen it, you know.