Together, Canadians must do more than just talk about reconciliation; we must learn how to practise reconciliation in our everyday lives—within ourselves and our families, and in our communities, governments, places of worship, schools, and work-places. To do so constructively, Canadians must remain committed to the ongoing work of establishing and maintaining respectful relationships
[Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Final Report, V6, p. 17].

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Working Tools Seminar Series Rescheduled

August 14, 2020

Working Tools Seminar Series: Community-Facing Data Management Platforms for Indigenous-University Partnerships Our workshop on data management and knowldge co-production between university researchers and Indigenous communities has been rescheduled as a Zoom seminar series for the fall of 2020...

Dr. Rhy McMillan

March 13, 2020

I/S Core team member, Rhy McMillan, successfully defended his PhD on February 27. Congratulations Rhy! Here is a summary of his thesis: Detailed written records only exist for a very small amount of human history. Researchers must therefore combine Indigenous traditional knowledge with scientific...

Alison Wylie's Sarton Lecture

March 12, 2020

A UBC-based research cluster has taken up a call to action issued by the 2015 Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Its aims are to devel-op projects that embody a “practice of reconciliation,” bringing the tools of archaeological science to bear on Indigenous-led research questions in ways...