UBC Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
1985 Learners' Walk V6T1Z1 Vancouver, BC, Canada

Congratulations to Senator Murray Sinclair, Alfred Waugh (the architect for the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre) and Cindy Blackstock (First Nations Caring Society), on being named to Macleans Power 50 list. The list also includes activists, authors, politicians and influencers from across Canada. http://ow.ly/i7Zt50DbQ3Z

To end racism against Indigenous peoples, we have to name it and speak up, says Centre Academic Director and UBC professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe. "Owing to generations of colonialism, racism and intergenerational trauma, Indigenous people unfairly experience a higher burden of chronic disease, which increases their risk of dying from COVID-19." Read the full op-ed in the Globe and Mail: http://ow.ly/XE4q50DbPP5

Congratulations to Nadine Caron, the co-director for UBC's Centre for Indigenous Health, on her new appointment at the First Nations Health Authority. Caron was the first female Indigenous graduate of UBC's medical program, and went on to become Canada's first female Indigenous general surgeon. http://ow.ly/GaBv50D6IKD

This upcoming event with our partner Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre Archives explores racism and colonial violence in archives and how institutions can decolonize their practices.