Indigenous news from UVic
Indigenous student focused on goal
A community response to the TRC
Nexen Indigenous Leadership Chair
Natasha Marshall likes to set goals for herself. Inspired by her mother, who began pursuing post-secondary education while Marshall was a teenager, she realized that through hard
work and dedication she could make her dreams come true.
This year, a week-long celebration in sunny Ottawa marked the formal conclusion of a six-year nation-wide process. June 2015 brought the unveiling of the final report of the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission鈥檚 work and the issuing of 94 recommende鈥�
Law professor John Borrows has been appointed as Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership at the Banff Centre. The Nexen Chair leads research and reporting on critical success factors
among Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada at the Peter Lougheed Leadership Institute at the Banff Centre.
The only ethnohistory field school in Canada to offer a firsthand learning opportunity involving traditional knowledges of oral history and research of historical documents has
been immersing graduate students every second spring since 1998 deep within the St贸:l艒 community in BC.
