Indigenous Stories

Building and Sustaining Momentum: Indigenizing Our Curriculum and Practices in Collaborative and Meaningful Ways in Science at UBC

The Biology Department, and it’s EDI Committee is proudly hosting Dr. Ashley Welsh, to give one of the last departmental seminars of the season. 📅 Date: Monday, May 11 🕒 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM 📍 Location: ASC130 👤 Modality: In-person Note that there will also be an information trainee lunch with Dr. Welsh, open to graduate students and […]

Faculty Indigenous Engagement Session at Sncewips Heritage Museum

📅 Date: Friday, April 24 🕒 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM 📍 Location: Sncewips Heritage Museum 👤 Modality: In-person, Free The Centre for Teaching and Learning is pleased to offer a place-based Indigenous Engagement session for faculty with Sncewips Heritage Museum. This is an opportunity to step into and participate in syilx-led cultural programming through witnessing, listening, and learning from […]

Indigenous Reads Book Club

Join the Indigenous Reads Book Club as we gather around Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, a powerful and unsettling novel that invites deep reflection and conversation. Register here to join the book club and meet us for our first session on March 25 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM in LIB 111, with […]

Indigenization as inclusion, reconciliation, and decolonization: navigating the different visions for indigenizing the Canadian Academy – Adam Gaudry and Danielle Lorenz (2018)    

Abstract: Following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, Canadian universities and colleges have felt pressured to indigenize their institutions. What “indigenization” has looked like, however, has varied significantly. Based on the input from an anonymous online survey of 25 Indigenous academics and their allies, we assert that indigenization […]

Indigenous Self-identification and Beyond: History, Cases, Policy Change 

Watch this UBC Webinar with Dr. Kim TallBear hosted by the co-chairs of the Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee and the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives.