September 30th is Orange Shirt Day and Truth and Reconciliation Day
Content Warning: discussion of residential schools, child abuse What is Orange Shirt Day – Every Child Matters? Phyllis Webstad is a Northern Secwépemc (Shushwap) woman from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation and a residential school survivor. When she was six years old, Phyllis had her new orange shirt stolen on her first day at school. […]
Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day
Join Xwi7xwa Library on Tuesday, June 21st from 10-3 on Level 2 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day.
Are Canada’s pipeline approvals at odds with our climate commitments?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. For years the possibility of new and expanded pipelines running across BC have raised questions related to First Nations land rights, coastal tanker traffic, and the nature of inter-provincial relationships. Underlying these questions, however, has always been the larger question of […]
Language reconstruction and strengthening community: the role of archival resources
Daryl Baldwin is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The Myaamia Center is a unique collaborative effort supported by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio for the purpose of advancing the language and cultural needs of […]
My Personal Journey to the Language of My Mother and My Community
Larry Grant, Musqueam Elder, was born and raised in Musqueam traditional territory by a traditional hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam family. After 4 decades as a tradesman, Larry enrolled in the First Nations Languages Program, which awoke his memory of the embedded value that the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language has to self-identity, kinship, culture, territory, and history prior to […]
Breath of Life: its origins, evolution, and transformative impacts
Leanne Hinton is professor emerita at the Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley & Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival. Leanne Hinton specializes in endangered languages and is an advocate and practicing trainer in the field of language revitalization. Hinton has helped found several organizations for language revitalization, and has helped design several […]
Irving K Barber Learning Centre AESN Video
Video sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Schools participate in the Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network (AESN) on a voluntary and annual basis. AESN schools link their inquiry specifically to Aboriginal ways of knowing. The Spiral of Inquiry provides school teams with the structure for guiding their improvement and innovation work. Participating schools develop […]
WILU: Panel Discussion-Indigenizing Instruction: Transformative Practices from Western Canada
This session aims to identify ways to support and promote accurate information about Aboriginal people, identify how current library structures may be barriers to full inclusion for Aboriginal students and how to address them, and identify power issues at play in our own instructional practice and how to make positive changes. Panelists are asked to […]
Future Speaker Series – Daryl Baldwin: "toopeeliyankwi, kati myaamiaataweeyankwi: We Succeed At Speaking The Myaamia Language"
February 22, 2016 | 11:30am-1:00pm | Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall, First Nations Longhouse | The Myaamia language was labeled an extinct language by the mid 20th century. After 25 years of reconstruction and revitalization, the Myaamia language is spoken once again among a younger generation of tribal youth who are using language learning opportunities to reconnect to each other and their Indigenous knowledge system.
Decolonize or Indigenize?: Transitionising for the information profession
Library and information institutions are colonial constructs that have collected and organized indigenous knowledge, but are they really inclusive? Using examples from Canada and New Zealand, this talk considers whether the answer to this question is to decolonize these institutions or to focus on indigenizing them. Speaker As Dodson Visiting Professor at the UBC iSchool […]