Who am I?

I am a writer, filmmaker and student of Salish art and history.

My first documentary, SUGARCANE, directed alongside Emily Kassie, follows an investigation into abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school my family was sent to near Williams Lake, British Columbia. SUGARCANE is set to premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. A proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'escen and descendant of the Lil'Wat Nation of Mount Currie, I am concurrently finishing my first book, We Survived the Night, which will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in North America, Profile Books in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Albin Michel in France and Aufbau Verlag in Germany.

My journalism has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Yorker and has been recognized with many awards including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which honors "excellence in long-form, narrative or deep reporting on stories about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the present American landscape." In 2021, I was named to the TIME100 Next list of emerging leaders alongside the starting point guard of my fantasy basketball team, Luka Doncic.

What is this newsletter?

This is my way of keeping family, friends, followers, fans and interlopers up to date with my documentary, SUGARCANE, my forthcoming book, We Survived the Night, as well as all my talks, jottings, drawings and other doings.

It’s free, low stakes and irregularly published.