Susan Nerberg
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Sámi writer & journalist. Based in unceded Tiohtià:ke, a.k.a. Montreal.
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
canadiangeographic.ca | Susan Nerberg
“All of our stories are tied to this river. Once, there was a big celebration that lasted for days. A group of girls who were becoming young women were too powerful to take part in the ceremony. But they were curious and wanted to see what was happening. When they got close, the Water People came out to tell the young women not to eat the pink-bellied sturgeon, because the pink-bellied sturgeon are the people who have drowned in the river. They’re our ancestors.
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3 weeks ago |
canadiangeographic.ca | Susan Nerberg
You can’t blame Sam Hunter for not being in the mood for a boat ride. Rain is pelting the hamlet of Peawanuck, and the northeasterly wind coming in from Hudson Bay sweeps the coastal lowlands of northern Ontario. “I don’t like this weather,” Hunter says from underneath a furrowed brow, even as he and his German shepherd puppy, Niska, make their way by ATV from his house to the boat launch on the Winisk River.
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2 months ago |
theglobeandmail.com | Susan Nerberg |Liza Agrba
Chief execs get all the glory (at least when things are going well). Five years ago, we decided it was time to change that. And so we present our fifth annual Best Executive Awards, hailing all the leaders—in finance, tech, operations, human resources, sustainability and more—who toil just outside the corner office, doing the often unglamorous work that helps move a company forward.
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Jul 4, 2024 |
assemblepapers.com.au | Susan Nerberg
Piece by piece, the land was stolen. As Wilson Williams — a band council member of the Indigenous Squamish Nation in British Columbia, Canada — tells it, the creeping land grab by non-Indigenous settlers reached official status in 1877, when Canada’s federal government confined his ancestors to living on a 34-hectare reserve. Up until that time, they had flourished in and around the ancient village of Sen̓áḵw, a seaside trading hub at the mouth of False Creek in what is today Vancouver.
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Nov 30, 2023 |
canadiangeographic.ca | Susan Nerberg
TravelSusan Nerberg embarks on a deeply personal tour of Tromsø, taking part in Sámi Week as a means to better understand her own Sámi roots and culture Published Dec 01, 2023Updated Jan 16, 20243,394 words14 minutesBy Susan NerbergWith photography by by Orjan Marakatt Bertelsen The Paris of the north, the Gateway to the Arctic, the Northern Lights Capital of the World: the city of Tromsø boasts many names reflecting the shape it takes in people’s (and marketers’) minds.
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On this day in 1961, US, British and Belgian forces assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's vast mineral reserves. Remember Lumumba. https://t.co/BLxJaVHLNs
