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].

Stories

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...

Working Tools Workshop for Digital Data Managment

March 12, 2020

POSTPONED. Due to the COVID 19 coronavirus pandemic, this event has been postponed until the fall of 2020. Details to follow. The I/S team was awarded a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Connections Grant in January 2020 to host a workshop at UBC titled, "Community-...

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...