PARC project gallery

Featured projects & collaborations

Partner: Matsqui First Nation (2025-Present)

Beaver Tales: A Matsqui First Nation Book Project

In partnership with Matsqui First Nation, PARC helped illustrate and format a book.

Beaver Tales project info »

Partner: Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre (2023- Present)

Xyólhmet Ye Syéwiqwélh (Taking Care of Our Children)

In partnership with the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre, PARC students reviewed, transcribed, and indexed Indian Agent letterbooks.

Xyólhmet Ye Syéwiqwélh project info »

Stó:lō Nation, the Stó:lō Tribal Council, the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre, and the Stó:lō Grand Chief’s Council (2022-Present)

Xwelítem Siyáya: Allyship and Reconciliation Building program Assistant

The Xwelítem Siyáya: Allyship and Reconciliation Building program is an initiative rooted in Stó:lō teachings and was designed to deepen participants’ understanding of Indigenous histories, perspectives, and protocols.

Xwelítem Siyáya project info »

UFV Research and Graduate Studies - Faculty/Student Research and Scholarly Activity Fund (2025-Present)

French Translation Project

This project involved the translation, transcription, and indexing of handwritten 19th century journals of one of the earliest French Catholic missionaries stationed in Stó:lō territory.

French Translation Project info »

Dr. Alessandro Tarsia (2025-Present)

From “Indian Princesses” to Matriarchs

A History of Indigenous Feminism Through Coast Salish Beauty Pageants.

From “Indian Princesses” to Matriarchs project info »

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and John Lutz (2021 - Present)

Smallpox

In partnership with UVIC’s Dr. John Lutz, UFV’s Peace and Reconciliation Centre launched a research project that looked at the spread and impact of disease amongst Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest.

Smallpox project info »

Abbotsford Police Department, Matsqui and Sumas First Nations (2024- Present)

Police and Sto:lo Reconciliation Project

This project was initiated by the Abbotsford Police Department (APD) in an effort to continue their work towards building more trustful relations with Indigenous communities and individuals.

Police and Sto:lo Reconciliation Project info »

Homalco First Nation, Dr. Colin Osmond, Dr. Alessandro Tarsia (Present)

Homalco First Nation – Cultural Repatriation

In partnership with the Homalco First Nation, Dr. Colin Osmond, and Dr. Alessandro Tarsia, PARC has been conducting research into the history of the Homalco First Nation, with a focus on the impacts of the 18th and 19th century smallpox epidemics, raids by nearby Indigenous groups, and colonization.

Homalco First Nation – Cultural Repatriation project info »

University of Alberta (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) and Ivan Rosypskye (Ongoing)

Carving Lost Family History

This project was initiated by Ukranian-Heiltsuk carver Ivan Rosypskye and PARC’s director Dr. Keith Thor Carlson.

Carving Lost Family History »

Sumas First Nation (2024 - Ongoing)

Project - Semáth Xhotsa Database Research project

Following the historic 2021 floods in the Fraser Valley and the 100-year anniversary of the draining of Sumas Lake in 2024, the Sumas First Nation sought to collect and organize archival materials in order to support the writing of a book about the lake from the perspective of the people whose identity was so tied to it.

Semáth Xhotsa Database Research project info »