2024 Land Awards Gala

Angela Sterritt is an award-winning investigative journalist and national bestselling author from the Wilp Wiik’aax of the Gitanmaax community within the Gitxsan Nation on her dad’s side and from Bell Island, NL, on her maternal side. Sterritt worked as a television, radio, and digital journalist at CBC for more than a decade. She hosted the award-winning CBC original podcast Land Back. Her book Unbroken (Greystone Books), a work that is part memoir and part investigation into the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women and girls, became an instant national bestseller in 2023. Unbroken was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, one of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious literary prizes. It was also a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for the best nonfiction book in Canada.

’Cúagilákv (Jess Housty) is a Haíɫzaqv parent, writer, and land-based educator from the community of Bella Bella, BC. They live in their unceded ancestral homelands, where they work in community building, food sovereignty, and leadership development. Housty is the author of a debut poetry collection, Crushed Wild Mint (Nightwood Editions), and a collection of essays forthcoming from Magic Canoe Press.

K.C. Hall was born in Bella Bella, in Heiltsuk Nation territory, on the central coast of BC. He belongs to the House of Wakas and descends from noted Heiltsuk artist Chief Robert Bell. His work blends graffiti art with traditional formline and Heiltsuk language and meaning to create a style of his own.