Indigenous news from UVic
Beyond Borders student fund
Indigenous law graduate student wins top Canadian research award
Bridging legacies and supports
Hishuk ish tsawalk鈥攅verything is one
Fires among tools of First Nations forestry
Thanks to the Beyond Borders fund initiated by President Jamie Cassels in 2015, even more UVic students have journeyed deep into communities well beyond the borders of our campus.
Here are three student stories of transformative journeys overseas.
UVic Law PhD student Aaron Mills was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Talent award. The award is given to a single student each year
across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences in Canada whose research "brings forward ideas that help us understand and improve the world around us." Mills' work is at the
forefront of the movement to restore and revitalize Indigenous systems of law.
When her job as a Youth Care Worker with the Cariboo-Chilcotin school district was cut last June, Mikara Pettman, 42, was worried. A happy, productive woman鈥攁n equal family
partner, mother to two teens and active in her community鈥攕uddenl鈥�
"There's a concept in Nuu-chah-nulth culture called hishuk ish tsawalk," says Marcena Wika Louie, one of the first cohort of the Indigenous Communities Counselling Psychology
(ICCP) program graduating in November. "It means everything is connected, everything is one. That's the basis of my holistic approach to counselling."
Two recently published research papers show how coastal forests benefited from First Nations habitation, and that fire-management was an important element of Indigenous
forestry.
An endangered Indigenous language and an endangered West Coast wildlife icon stand to benefit from the work of two new Banting Postdoctoral Fellows at UVic. Valued at $70,000 per
year for two years, the fellowships are intended to groom Canada's next generation of research leaders.
In a solemn ceremony last Friday, members of the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations and UVic journeyed together to return ancestral remains that had been stored in the Department of
Anthropology to their community of origin on Lekwungen traditional lands.