Topic: Indigenous

Riley, K.; Froehlich Chow, A.; Wahpepah, K.; Houser, N.; Brussoni, M.; Stevenson, E.; Erlandson, M.C.; Humbert, M.L. A Nature’s Way—Our Way Pilot Project Case Assemblage: (Re)Storying Child/Physical Literacy/Land Relationships for Indigenous Preschool-Aged Children’s Wholistic Wellness. Children 2023, 10, 497. https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030497

Riley K, Froehlich Chow A, Wahpepah K, Humbert ML, Brussoni M, Houser N, et al. Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) in Nature’s Way-Our Way: braiding physical literacy and risky play through Indigenous games, activities, cultural connections, and traditional teachings. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples. 2023. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/11771801231167881

HELP encourages all educators, parents, and students to visit the interactive First Peoples’ Map of B.C. to view Indigenous language regions, artists and artworks, place names and community landmarks.

A list of Indigenous nations and languages that we use at HELP. This is a constantly changing and growing list as we learn more and receive feedback from indigenous nations and communities.

The National Inquiry’s Final Report reveals that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. The two-volume report calls for transformative legal and social changes to resolve the crisis that has devastated Indigenous communities across the country.

The Reconciliation Pole, a 55-foot carved 800-year-old red cedar pole, was designed and carved under the direction of Haida Master Carver and Hereditary Chief 7idansuu (Edenshaw).

By using Indigenous research methodologies with a strengths-based approach, the Tl’etinqox (Anaham) research team highlights sustainable community-led solutions suitable for the current and future public health emergencies. The purpose of the study was to identify Indigenous community-led solutions to public health emergencies, particularly climate change and pandemics in addition to build Tl’etinqox community research capacity through intergenerational cultural knowledge exchange.

In answering the call for decolonizing data, HELP aims to align with the vision and mission articulated in the First Nations Data Governance Strategy (FNIGC) to “strengthen First Nations institutions and communities to achieve data sovereignty and support the development of information governance and management at the community level through partnership and in alignment with their distinct worldviews.”

In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, HELP continues to seek ways to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action.

The Indigenous Strategic Plan (2020) sets out a series of eight goals and 43 actions the university will collectively take in order to advance our vision of becoming a leading university globally in the implementation of Indigenous Peoples’

Indigenous Peoples comprise the youngest and fastest growing demographic in Canada, with many living in urban-suburban areas. Given higher fertility rates, younger overall ages and higher adolescent pregnancy rates, perinatal research is needed—to inform policymaking and programming throughout pregnancy and childhood. Yet such data remain scarce in British Columbia (BC), Canada. This study therefore aimed to describe the experiences of young, urban, Indigenous mothers-to-be who enrolled in a lar