UVic Faculty of Human

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UVic Faculty of Human Social Development

• Good things start here
• Adams Lake RIS
• Feb 17th/2009
• Roger John
• Indigenous Advisor

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Schools Programs in the Faculty of Human
Social Development

• School of Child Youth Care
• School of Health Information Science
• School of Public Administration
• School of Nursing
• School of Social Work
• Indigenous Governance Program
• Masters in Studies in Policies and Practice
• Centre for Non-Profit Management
• Masters in Dispute Resolution

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Good things start here

• Highest number of Indigenous students and
  Indigenous faculty
• First task force for First Peoples House emerged
  out of the Deans Office of HSD
• Indigenous Students Recognition Ceremony
  organized by Indigenous Advisors office and
  sponsored by Deans office 1998-2008
• SAGE Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Education
• Indigenous Principles and Protocols for Research
  (IGOV)

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Indigenous Faculty Instructors

• Taiaiake Alfred, Mohawk (IGOV)
• Jeff Corntassel, Cherokee (IGOV)
• Waziyatawin, Wahpetunwan Dakota (IGOV)
• Jeanine Carriere, Métis (SOCW)
• Cathy Richardson, Métis (SOCW)
• Robina Thomas, Lyackson (SOCW)
• Jacquie Green, Haisla (SOCW)

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Indigenous Faculty Instructors (contd)

• Todd Ormiston, N.Tutchone Tlingit (SOCW)
• Sandrina de Finney, Malecite (CHIL)
• Shanne McCaffrey, Métis (CHIL)
• Sylvie Cottell, Métis (CHIL)

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Indigenous Programming

• First Nations Specialization in Social Work
• Indigenous Governance Program
• Learning Circles in Aboriginal Nursing
• Early Childhood Development Intercultural
  Partnerships Program (CHIL)
• CELÁNEN A Journal of Indigenous Governance
• Indigenous MSW Pilot Program underway

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More Indig. Programming

• Virtual Learning Lodge to help bring Uvic to
  the community CHIL and INAF
• To support distance and on-campus learners

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Indigenous Research Projects

• Sandrina De Finney (CHIL)- NONG SILA Working from
  Community Knowledge Developing an Urban
  Aboriginal Adoptions Council
• A community-based research study on urban
  Aboriginal adoptions in Victoria, British
  Columbia. Entitled NONG SILA, a Lekwungen word
  meaning many grandparents, many grandchildren,
  the study responded to the urgent need for
  building culturally-appropriate capacity in the
  Aboriginal adoptions sector in British Columbia.

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Adolescent Girls Mentorship Study

• Bannister, Elizabeth (NURS) The goal of this
  community-based study was to understand
  adolescent girls dating health issues and to
  facilitate positive change in their health risk
  behaviours.
• Partners University of Victoria School District
  61 Victoria Youth Clinic Stuate Lelum
  Secondary School, and First Nations and Inuit
  Branch of Health Canada.
• 40 adolescent girls, ages 15-16, from three local
  secondary schools (including one designated as an
  alternative school), a local youth health clinic,
  and a rural First Nations secondary school. We
  had little difficulty accessing participants for
  the study and ascertained from this that staff
  and girls at each site placed a high value on
  adolescent girls dating related health concerns
  and desired to learn more of such concerns.

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Indigenous Child Welfare Research Project

• Emerged from a meeting in Feb 2008
• Principal Investigator, Leslie Brown
• Project Coordinator, Jacquie Green
• The vision the creation and maintenance of a
  research network conduct child welfare research
  that would be relevant to our distinct
  communities and peoples. in British Columbia.
• For more information contact Jacquie Green
• Website Launch Feb 13th/2008
• www.uvic.ca/icwr

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Projects, Theses Dissertations

• Child Youth Care
• Mary BURGARETTA (2007) Rising from the ashes
  Empowering Aboriginal Women
• Onowa MCIVOR (2005) Building the Nests
  Indigenous Language Revitalization in BC First
  Nations Using Early Childhood Immersion Programs
• Judith BOULTER (2001) Unlearning Colonialism An
  Aboriginal Experience in Education as the
  Practice of Freedom.
• Dispute Resolution
• Leigh Ogston Milroy (2002), Aboriginal
  Policy-making and Dispute Resolution Processes A
  history of the concept of a tribunal for the
  adjudication of specific land claims in Canada
• Dale Hunt (2005), We Are All Different, Still
  Living Under The Same Culture A Kwakwaka'wakw
  Perspective on Dispute Resolution (Dale Hunt,
  2005)
• Patrick Richmond (2007), A Serpentine Effect The
  Impact of Legal Decisions on Aboriginal Rights
  and Title on the Conduct of Treaty Negotiations
  in British Columbia (Patrick Richmond, 2007)
• Indigenous Governance Program
• Nicholas CLAXTON (2003) - The Douglas Treaty and
  WSÁNEC traditional fisheries A model for Saanich
  Peoples Governance
• Bradley YOUNG (2005) - A Modern Day Warrior
  Lodge A Vision for the Northern Plains
  Indigenous Leadership Institute
• Lyana PATRICK (2004) - Storytelling in the Fourth
  World Explorations in Meaning of Place and
  Tlaamin Resistance to Dispossession

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Projects, Theses and Dissertations

• Public Administration
• Leslie BROWN, Administrative work in Aboriginal
  governments (1996)
• Simrita JOHAL (2001), First Nations
  self-administered police forces The changing
  nature of the administration of justice
• Todd ORMISTON (2002), Aboriginal Child Family
  Services Agencies A First Nations Analysis of
  Delegated Services
• Jacquie GREEN, (2000), First Nations Program
  Strategy School of Social Work
• NURS
• Heidi PETRAK (2008), Aboriginal nursing students
  experiences in a nursing program
• SOCW
• Leona DANIELS (2006), Grannies, Aunties, Mothers
  and Daughters, All the Skeletons are out A Story
  of Truth and Healing
• Maggie KOVACHS (2007), Searching for Arrowheads
  An Inquiry into Approaches to Indigenous Research
  using Tribal Methodology with a Nêhiýaw
  Kiskêýihtamowin Worldview
• Robina THOMAS (2000), Storytelling in the Spirit
  of Wise Woman Experiences of Kuper Island
  Residential School

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For More Information

• http//www.hsd.uvic.ca/students/IndigenousStudentA
  dvisor.php.
• Copy of my presentation and a bibliography will
  be provided.