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First Indigenous co-op exchange
When UVic student Kimberly Hanton packed her bags for her work term in Australia last month, she carried words of encouragement from the local Indigenous Elders. Hanton recently embarked on the university鈥檚 first Indigenous co-op exchange after attending a departure ceremony at First Peoples House in her honour. This unique co-op exchange saw Hanton travel to the University of Newcastle in Australia in August, while UVic will welcome Australian Indigenous student Cristal Walters to campus this fall.聽
Indigenous student focused on goal
Natasha Marshall likes to set goals for herself. Inspired by her mother, who began pursuing post-secondary education while Marshall was a teenager, she realized that through hard work and dedication she could make her dreams come true.
Trudeau Fellowship for Nancy Turner
Trudeau Foundation award supports Nancy Turner鈥檚 lifelong study of traditional plant use 聽 聽 A long-time champion of Indigenous knowledge, UVic ethnobotanist and ethnoecologist Nancy Turner has devoted her career to understanding and communicating the crucial role that plants play in Indigenous cultures and languages, especially with respect to land use, rights and title. To support this important work the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation has awarded Turner a $225,000 fellowship over the next three years.
A community response to the TRC
This year, a week-long celebration in sunny Ottawa marked the formal conclusion of a six-year nation-wide process. June 2015 brought the unveiling of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission鈥檚 work and the issuing of 94 recommende鈥
Nexen Indigenous Leadership Chair
Law professor John Borrows has been appointed as Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership at the Banff Centre. The Nexen Chair leads research and reporting on critical success factors among Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada at the Peter Lougheed Leadership Institute at the Banff Centre.
UVic response to TRC recommendations
When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final 11-page set of recommendations, one of the commission鈥檚 overarching goals loomed so large, it seemed poised to walk right off the document. 鈥淭he idea is that all we have learned is not to become stored and dusty,鈥 explains Commissioner Marie Wilson. 鈥淚t is a call to action.鈥
Gifts of learning
鈥淲ithout art, I would never have discovered I was a teacher.鈥
St贸:l艒 Ethnohistory Field School
The only ethnohistory field school in Canada to offer a firsthand learning opportunity involving traditional knowledges of oral history and research of historical documents has been immersing graduate students every second spring since 1998 deep within the St贸:l艒 community in BC.
Day in the Life: Shauna Underwood
The university鈥檚 heart is its students鈥攁nd Shauna Underwood finds both meaning and joy contributing to their success as an Indigenous student advisor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development (HSD). Underwood sees herself as a traditional person; valuing her Coast Salish culture, she is from the Tsawout Band in W瘫S脕NE膯 (Saanich), is a member of the Samish Tribe in Washington, and has traced her roots to the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho.聽 At HSD鈥檚 Indigenous Student Support Centre (ISSC), Underwood works within the only faculty-based centre of its kind on campus with a large Indigenous student cohort, faculty and relevant programs. A day in her life is a mix of the routine and the unexpected. 鈥淚 never know what鈥檚 going to come up,鈥 she says鈥攁nd that鈥檚 okay with her.
13,000-year-old footprints
Family gatherings around a fire pit鈥攁n ancient custom that鈥檚 still with us today鈥攎ay have been practiced as long as 13,000 years ago along BC's central coast. Footprints from what appear to be a man, woman and child circling a hearth were found last month below the tideline.
Wild game and words
Art Napoleon was already a national figure when his TV show, Moosemeat & Marmalade, premiered on APTN in January 2015. He had performed at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards, opened for Buffy Sainte-Marie and been interviewed by veteran correspondent Tom Hawthorn for the Globe and Mail in September 2010 for the release of his album Creeland Covers, sung almost exclusively in Cree.
M茅tis support for early child's play
The objects look simple. Hand-sized swatches of organza. Coloured paper. A star-shaped hole punch. A blanket and rolled socks. But the meaning they hold can be transformative. The educational kit of supplies and a colourful booklet of activities uses M&e#180;tis history to engage young children in physical activities, literacy and art, helping build cultural awareness as well as healthy lifelong habits.
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