ABOUT

Tchadas Leo is an Indigenous TV Journalist, Podcaster, TV host, Actor, Producer and Documentarian based on Vancouver Island.

His Indigenous lineage belongs with the Xwemalhkwu First Nation and the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians.  He also has Peruvian & Argentinian ancestry.

Tchadas has been with the CHEK Media group with his multi-national award-winning podcast and TV show known as Our Native Land since 2020. These accolades include 2022 Canadian Podcast Awards Indigenous podcast of the year and 2023 Amazon Music's top podcasts of the year. His talk show/podcast focuses on all things Indigenous from Vancouver Island and across Canada. 

In 2023, Tchadas joined the CHEK News team as a full time Journalist and recently became the first Coast Salish person to Anchor a newscast on Coast Salish territory. In 2024 Tchadas received the Broadcast Performer of Tomorrow award from the BCAB honouring his work in journalism and anchoring.

On top of several podcasts and local TV production projects, Tchadas works with Orca Cove Media as an Executive Producer to help create and develop Indigenous TV series for networks such as APTN.