From Oral Tradition to Comics: Partnership leads to Graphic Novel

From Oral Tradition to Comics: Partnership leads to Graphic Novel

A new project has brought together a team of Indigenous graphic artists to create a series of short comics based on archival recordings of Elders from the Homalco First Nation. Captured in the early 1990s, these recordings explore life in the Homalco First Nation’s traditional territory in Bute Inlet, with Elders recalling their childhoods and […]

Connection and community-building: Indigenous Student Orientation at UBC Vancouver

Connection and community-building: Indigenous Student Orientation at UBC Vancouver

UBC is welcoming another cohort of Indigenous students into its campus community during annual Indigenous Student Orientation programming at UBC Vancouver. Each year, the First Nations House of Learning (FNHL) organizes orientation events that go beyond providing a tailored introduction to university life.

Connection and community-building: Indigenous Student Orientation at UBC Vancouver

Connection and community-building: Indigenous Student Orientation at UBC Vancouver

UBC is welcoming another cohort of Indigenous students into its campus community during annual Indigenous Student Orientation programming at UBC Vancouver. Each year, the First Nations House of Learning (FNHL) organizes orientation events that go beyond providing a tailored introduction to university life. FNHL allows a space for First Nations (status or non-status), Métis and […]

Appointment of Dr. Jan Hare, Dean, Faculty of Education

Appointment of Dr. Jan Hare, Dean, Faculty of Education

It is our pleasure to announce that the UBC Board of Governors has accepted the President’s recommendation to appoint Dr. Jan Hare as the Dean of the Faculty of Education for a five-year term, commencing July 1, 2024. Dr. Hare, an Anishinaabe-kwe scholar and educator from the M’Chigeeng First Nation in northern Ontario, is a […]

Crossing the threshold

Crossing the threshold

In a ceremony filled with culture and tradition, eight Indigenous medical students and two Indigenous midwifery students graduated from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine On May 21, Indigenous Elders and community members, alongside family members, friends, faculty and staff, gathered in the Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall of the UBC First Nations Longhouse to honour and celebrate the […]

Impact Story: Indigenous research and engagement in the time of reconciliation – Part 2

Impact Story: Indigenous research and engagement in the time of reconciliation – Part 2

Universities have largely benefited from an extractive model of research on Indigenous communities. In decades past researchers would visit Indigenous communities to conduct their research, and publish their results afterwards — often without consulting with the community, providing a chance for review, or providing copies of the data or final publication to the community. This […]

Impact Story: Indigenous community-based research – Part 1

Impact Story: Indigenous community-based research – Part 1

Universities have largely benefited from an extractive model of research on Indigenous communities. In decades past researchers would visit Indigenous communities to conduct their research, and publish their results afterwards — often without consulting with the community, providing a chance for review, or providing copies of the data or final publication to the community. This […]

All Stories: 2010-present

This section contains Archived Stories from 2010 onward, along with Featured Stories from 2018 to the present.

UBC-Musqueam

UBC-Musqueam

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Indigenous Events

Indigenous Events

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