National Indigenous History Month
Honouring Indigenous histories, cultures, and voices.
In recognition, we actively focus on highlighting Indigenous leaders, sharing Indigenous history and terminology, spotlighting parks and trails to explore, and amplifying local businesses, artists, and more!
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Locan Indigenous Parks/Hikes
Approximately 5.5 km of easy walking, flat trails.
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Generally considered an easy route, it takes an average of 3 h 48 min to complete.
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Features a day use picnic area, parking lot and a trail network that connects to the Community Forest.
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Indigenous Student Centre
Get cultural support, academic advice, and elder guidance, and join student events here.Dive into fascinating Indigenous-focused courses for deep knowledge of history, culture, and contemporary issues.
Scholarships and AwardsDiscover opportunities to support Indigenous students' educational goals at UFV.
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Some of our favorite clips from the Bigger Than ME Podcast
Indigenous Leadership Series:
Book Recommendations
Join us as we read, reflect and discuss. Each month, we will be focusing on a theme and adding books to the Chronicles within those themes. Our main goal is to create new opportunities for the student community to connect and learn together, focusing on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI).
When you go for a walk in nature, who do you see? What do you hear? Award-winning storyteller Nicola I. Campbell shows what it means "to stand like a cedar" on this beautiful journey of discovery through the wilderness. Learn the names of animals in the Nle7kepmxcín or Halq'emeylem languages as well as the teachings they have for us.
The picture book, illustrated by Julie Flett, is based on Campbell's memory of another of her aunts, Ethel. Ethel didn't attend residential school, and she retained her knowledge of many traditional Salish practices, including medicine making, hide tanning and food preparation.
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer.
Our stories identify for us the land which surrounds us and tie us to our ancestors. We find ourselves inextricably linked to the past, to the land, to the river, to each other, to the future.
Guileless and refreshingly honest, Terese Mailhot's debut memoir chronicles her struggle to balance the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic reality of life on the reservation.
I Am Woman represents my personal struggle with womanhood, culture, traditional spiritual beliefs and political sovereignty, written during a time when that struggle was not over. My original intention was to empower Native women to take to heart their own personal struggle for Native feminist being.
The Rumour is a collection of poetry that exposes many important issues of Indigenous discrimination, poverty, drug abuse, brutal violence, love, family, and complex human relationships.