How a Mayan language exchange is empowering Indigenous students
Offered through UBC Okanagan’s Go Global, the immersive course helps students explore the connection between language, culture and community.
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UBCO adds Indigenous Knowledges theme to Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies programs
First campus in Canada to offer master’s, doctorate options
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UBCO faculty members to voice concern at Columbia River symposium
Two-day virtual event highlights the history and governance of the Columbia River Basin
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Amplifying Indigenous resilience
Visual artist and Assistant Professor Tania Willard fuses art and advocacy through her annual Orange Shirt Day installation.
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Community connections improve family and child wellbeing
Researchers and Indigenous partners are confirming the strength of community by melding empirical data with lived experience.
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An Indigenous approach to understanding water
Graduate students Dawn Machin and Sarah Alexis are incorporating traditional Indigenous knowledge into their research about our relationship with water.
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Tania Willard is bringing creative thinkers together
Artist and curator leads UBCO’s Indigenous Art Intensive, which offers the opportunity to hear, learn and understand more about Indigenous art practices.
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Call for Canada to braid Indigenous rights with endangered species law
Indigenous leaders, UBCO researchers say current recovery targets do not support culturally vital harvest
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Journeying back home
Hanna Paul returned to her First Nations community to research moon time teachings and build confidence for youth and women.
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Climate change is chasing away the salmon, so she’s chasing climate change
Master’s graduate Janna Wale came to UBCO with one important question to answer, ‘Where are the salmon?’
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