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2020 was one of the most difficult years we have collectively faced, and with it now behind us, we’ve decided to publish a good news story on the blog to usher in the new year. To that end, we dedicate our first post of 2021 to welcoming the new Indigenous faculty and staff who joined UBC in 2020. These exceptional individuals will undoubtedly strengthen and enhance the university, and we are excited for the opportunity to support their work this year and into the future. President Santa Ono

UBC’s 2020 Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) is now official, having launched on September 14th with a virtual celebration. The ISP continues the work of UBC’s 2009 Aboriginal Strategic Plan and responds to the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the calls for justice of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). Acting as a blueprint, the ISP

Chief Russell Myers Ross has a lot on his plate these days. After two consecutive terms as Chief of Yuneŝit'in, one of the six communities that form the Tŝilhqot'in Nation, Myers Ross will step down on September 8th, passing the torch to a new leader. For the last several weeks, he’s been working around the clock, determined to leave the three dozen or so projects he initiated or inherited in the past eight years in a good way so that they can continue to move forward under the direction of the

By Bronwen McKie, Student Librarian, X̱wi7x̱wa Library IRSI is pleased to present this guest blog post from the team at X̱wi7x̱wa Library. Are citation practices fair to Indigenous scholars? In a 2018 episode of CBC’s Unreserved podcast, Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte and former UBC Professor Dr. Sarah Hunt argued that they're not. Dr. Whyte is Potawatomi and a Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. Dr. Hunt is Kwagu’ł from Kwakw ak a ’ wakw Nation and currently

John Bass, Associate Professor, School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture (SALA) When John Bass joined UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 2002, he was no stranger to the politics of contested landscapes. Since the late ‘90s, Bass had worked in the Delta region of California’s Central Valley on a series of projects that posed ways of reconciling environmental and economic interests. The work allowed him to explore how graphic methods of documentation, analysis