Community Engagement
From Oral Tradition to Comics: Partnership leads to Graphic Novel
By Community Engagement on October 2, 2024
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
By Kevin Ward on September 23, 2024
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
By Michaela Kelly, UBC Media Relations on September 19, 2024
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
By VPAO on June 27, 2024
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
By Faculty of Medicine on June 24, 2024
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
By G+PS on June 15, 2024
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
By G+PS on June 10, 2024
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.
Indigenous Events
By FNHL Staff on May 30, 2024
Visit the Indigenous Events calendar to learn what’s coming your way.