Ashamed to be Métis January 28, 2021February 12, 2021 Steve Faryna Born as a reaction to the climate of fear that many Métis families lived under, the Proud to be Métis movement aims to bring Métis people out of the woodwork
NEWS UNSETTLED | Addressing the bigger picture April 7, 2019April 5, 2019 Kolin Sutherland-Wilson As the Firekeeper of the Native Students Union, I started writing in this column for the sole purpose of pressuring the University of Victoria to address the injustices against the
NEWS UNSETTLED | Understanding Unist’ot’en January 24, 2019March 24, 2019 Kolin Sutherland-Wilson And B.C.'s legacy of undermining Indigenous governance What is happening on Unist’ot’en territory is not just about pipelines and fossil fuels. It is about how Canada continues to infringe upon and...
Traditional tattoos of northwest coast First Nations celebrated at Vancouver gallery January 21, 2019January 22, 2019 Devon Bidal The Bill Reid Gallery collaborated with First Nations tattoo artists from the northwest coast to celebrate the history of cultural tattooing ‘Body Language’ is an exhibition at the Bill Reid Gallery...
Native Students Union call on UVic to take stance in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en First Nation January 9, 2019January 10, 2019 Anna Dodd NSU among hundreds in demonstration at B.C. Legislature Hundreds gathered on Tuesday, Jan. 8 in front of the British Columbia Parliament buildings to protest RCMP officers forcing members of the Wet’suwet’en...
Legal action continues against forced or coerced sterilization practices in Canada December 26, 2018December 14, 2018 Brianna Bock In 2017, two First Nations women in Saskatoon launched a class-action lawsuit against the province of Saskatchewan, each seeking seven million dollars in damages after they had been sterilized without...
Archaeologists and Heiltsuk community brace for next public release March 29, 2018April 2, 2018 Mike Graeme The quiet concentration inside UVic’s archaeology research lab gives no indication of the media commotion that arrived alongside the discovery of 14 000-year-old artifacts on Triquet Island in Heiltsuk Territory last...
Who is the whitest of them all? We should have a prize for that! June 8, 2017June 7, 2017 Alana Sayers The ‘cultural appropriation prize’, proposed by then-editor Hal Niedzviecki in an issue of Write magazine dedicated to Indigenous writers and the following bandwagon of high-profile white Canadians who publicly jumped...
IdeaFest panel challenges current conceptions of reconciliation March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 Sarah Lazin How do we reconcile the past to create a better future? What does reconciliation mean at a local or national level? What does it mean in relation to Canada’s 150th?...
Students lead push to rename Joseph Trutch Hall February 23, 2017February 22, 2017 Alistair Ogden For the second time in seven years, UVic students are attempting to change the name of Joseph Trutch Hall. Lisa Schnitzler, a Trutch Hall resident, started a petition in December...
