History
Chair: Melissa Walter, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of the Fraser Valley
Session A - Read More About the Panel Theme
Over the past century and a half settler Colonialism has posed a range of challenges to the Indigenous people of what is now British Columbia. An earlier generation of historical scholarship exposed the coercive and assimilative process and outcomes of colonialism on Indigenous people focused principally on physical actions that could be seen, documented, and measured through western metrics (ie. the “land question” and residential schools). In this panel we build upon this foundation but shift the focus to the more intangible, and therefore often less visible, epistemological and ontological impacts of settler colonialism and Indigenous persistence/resistance. The intellectual themes and analytical lenses of spirituality, hybridity, territoriality, and sovereignty weave their way through the analysis presented in each of the papers. Collectively the panel shows different ways ethnohistorical analysis can bring new insights to issues that might otherwise appear outside the context of the ongoing contestations of settler colonialism and Indigenous rights and title.
Chair: Geoffrey Spurling, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of the Fraser Valley
Facilitator: Keith Carlson, Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Studies and Community Engaged History/ Chair, Peace and Reconciliation Centre, University of the Fraser Valley
Chair: Naxaxalhts’i | Albert “Sonny” McHalsie, Sxweyxweyá:m (Historian)/Cultural Advisor for the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre
Session A - Read More About the Panel Theme
The Stó:lō Ethnohistory Fieldschool has been facilitating community-engaged, Indigenous-mentored, experiential learning opportunities for graduate students for over two decades. Every two years Stó:lō Knowledge Keepers, along with staff from the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre, generate a list of historical research topics that students choose from. This panel profiles three the research of three students from the 2018 fieldschool revealing the breadth of projects that the community has identified as priorities, and the adaptability and creativity of history graduate student scholarship.
Chair: Robin Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of the Fraser Valley
Chair: Keith Carlson, Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Studies and Community Engaged History/ Chair, Peace and Reconciliation Centre, University of the Fraser Valley
Session C - Read More About the Panel Theme
In this forum we are providing a group of Indigenous and settler Canadian teacher/scholars with an opportunity to describe and reflect upon the work they have been doing in their undergraduate classrooms to integrate peace-building strategies and reconciliation-building approaches into their pedagogy and curriculum. The panelists represent teachers at different stages in their academic careers and from different disciplines. The presentations will be short so that there is time for each of the panelist to respond to one another’s pedagogies and to still leave plenty of time for questions and discussions with the audience.