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Whether you’re a student, community member, scholar, or potential partner, we welcome your questions, ideas, and interest in the Interior Salishan Studies Centre. Please reach out to us using the information below.
General Inquiries
Interior Salishan Studies Centre
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
UBC Okanagan Campus
XSS (x̌əl sic snpax̌nwixʷtn) Building
3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
Canada
Media & Speaking Requests
Members of the media who wish to speak to Jeannette Armstrong can email her directly; please cc’ Nathan Skolski.
Partnership & Funding Inquiries
To discuss collaboration opportunities or support the Centre’s work: Mike Evans
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Partner Organization Contacts:
- Tracey Bonneau: Enowkin Centre – nsyilxcn Language Partner
- Suzanne Johnson: Enowkin Centre – nsyilxcn Language Partner
- Dr. John Chenoweth: NVIT
- Iona Narcisse: Lillooet Tribal Council / St’at’imc Education Institute
- Cathrena Narcisse: Lillooet Tribal Council / St’at’imc Education Institute
- Chelsea Vaughan: NVIT
- Megan Paquette: NVIT
- Mandy Nazinek Jimmie: Coyote House
- Jenny Blankenship: Coyote House
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Jeannette Armstrong | Professor | Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Indigenous Knowledges, Indigenous Studies, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC) | jeannette.armstrong@ubc.ca | LM4 633
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Indigenous philosophies; Okanagan Syilx thought and environmental ethics coded into Syilx literatures.
Courses & Teaching: Indigenous perspectives; traditional ecological methodologies
Bill Cohen | Assistant Professor | Education, Indigenous Knowledges, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC) | billy.cohen@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: My research interests are extended family pedagogies informed by traditional Indigenous knowledge: particularly a Syilx children-centred model informed by capti̓kʷɬ stories to transform schools to be more appreciative and sustaining of place-based relationships and cultural and ecological diversity.
Helen Copeland | Community Liaison and Instructional Coordinator | Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC), St’at’imc Language Fluency | helen.copeland@ubc.ca
Mike Evans (On Leave) | Professor | Anthropology, Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Indigenous Knowledges, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC) | michael.evans@ubc.ca | ASC 431
Research Interests: Urban Aboriginal issues; Métis history and contemporary issues; Tonga, trans-national migration and globalization; regional food systems; Indigenous methodologies; participatory action research; community based research; and Island studies
Courses & Teaching: Globalization and Indigenous peoples
Dallas Good Water | Community Liaison and Instructional Coordinator | Community, Culture and Global Studies, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC), Nsyilxcn Language Fluency (BNLF) | dallas.goodwater@ubc.ca | ART 368B
Paige Hohmann (On Leave) | Archivist | Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC), Library Services, Okanagan Special Collections and Archives | paige.hohmann@ubc.ca
Research Interests: Digitization; representation of archives in online environments.
Courses & Teaching: Archival research; primary source information literacy.
Mandy Na’zinek Jimmie | Assistant Professor of Teaching | Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC), Nłeʔkepmx Language Fluency | mandy.jimmie@ubc.ca | 250.378.7753
Research Interests: Nłeʔkepmx Language, Worldview and Way of Being; other Interior Salish languages; Indigenous Language Revitalization
John Lyon | Assistant Professor | Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Indigenous Knowledges, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC), Nsyilxcn Language Fluency (BNLF) | john.lyon@ubc.ca | ART 368B
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Interior Salish Languages; Language Documentation and Revitalization; Salish Linguistics
Courses & Teaching: Nsyilxcn Fluency Program courses; Interior Salish linguistics
Melpatkwa Matthew | Community Liaison and Instructional Coordinator | Community, Culture and Global Studies, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC) | melm10@mail.ubc.ca
Kathryn Michel | Community, Culture and Global Studies, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC) | km27@mail.ubc.ca | 250.574.1222
Research Interests: Indigenous language revitalization; Secwépemc language, history and culture
Shanny Nuyens | Manager - Strategy, Operations, Indigenous Initiatives | Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC), Nłeʔkepmx Language Fluency, Nsyilxcn Language Fluency (BNLF), St’at’imc Language Fluency | shanny.nuyens@ubc.ca | 250.280.2234 | Landmark 4
Christine Schreyer | Professor | Anthropology, Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity, Digital Arts and Humanities, Indigenous Knowledges, Interior Salishan Studies Centre (ISSC) | christine.schreyer@ubc.ca | ART 368C
Graduate student supervisor
Research Interests: Linguistic anthropology; First Nations language and culture; land claims and Aboriginal Title; ethnolinguistics, ethnohistory, social memory, oral history, landscape, and traditional land use studies; works with First Nations communities on language issues such as language maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages
Courses & Teaching: Linguistic anthropology; language documentation and revitalization