Urban Issues Film Festival
The Urban Issues Film Festival is coming back this Friday to VIU for the first time since 2019 as...
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ImagineNATIVE Festival
ImagineNATIVE Festival is a film, media and arts festival that is will be fully online this year....
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Is “A New Future for Old Growths” Possible?
Most Vancouver Island residents will remember the War in the Woods some 27 years ago. It was an...
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The Importance of Increasing Indigeneity at VIU
With everything that has happened so far in 2020—the pandemic, a steep rise in awareness about...
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Awards Honour Legacy of VIU Alum Micah Messent
The family of Micah Messent, a VIU graduate who passed away in a plane crash last spring, is...
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The Promised Land: In Search of Freedom, Prosperity, and #LandBack for Indigenous Peoples
A VIU media release has relayed that Max FineDay, Executive Director of the Canadian Roots...
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Eliot White-Hill: A Snuneymuxw success story
Eliot White-Hill’s family has been engaged with the Snuneymuxw community for generations. His...
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VIU’s new Elders-In-Residence
Nanaimo Campus’s Elders-In-Residence Program welcomes Maxine Hayman Matilpi (Lakwa) and Barney...
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UVIC hosts Building Reconciliation Forum
Back in September, I joined a VIU dialogue group to discuss Indigenous perspectives in...
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Sisters in Spirit
In many traditional Indigenous beliefs, the spirits of missing and murdered women are lost and...
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New VIU counselor focuses on Indigenous students
Above: Noelle Hanuse, who is from the Oweekeno and Klahoose First Nations, is the latest member of...
Read MoreFirst Nations studies plan to change name to Indigenous studies
By contributor Spencer Sheehan-Kalina VIU’s Faculty of First Nations Studies announced to students that it will be changing its name to Indigenous Studies. Keith Smith, a professor who teaches First Nations Studies introductory...
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