Indigenous Issues

Dr. Janice Forsyth

Dr. Janice Forsyth

Professor, Indigenous Land-Based Physical Culture and Wellness

Indigenous sport; Canadian sport; Indigenous physical activity; Canada; sports at Canadian Indian residential schools; residential school history; sport and reconciliation; safe sport for Indigenous athletes; Indigenous data in sport; sport and colonialism

Mx. Kelsey Timler

Mx. Kelsey Timler

PhD candidate, Research manager

Food justice, prison, incarceration, parole, criminal justice, criminal legal system, Indigenous overrepresentation in prisons, Peer-led research, Participatory Action Research, community-based research, food security, food sovereignty, arts-based methods, social justice, prison abolition, storytelling, prison programs, health equity, social equity, social determinants of health, social determinants of crime

Stefan Grzybowski, MD, CCFP, MClS, FCFP

Professor

Co-director, Centre for Rural Health Research

Preconception care, prenatal care, rural obstetric outcomes

Dr. Charles Menzies

Dr. Charles Menzies

Professor

Fisheries crises, traditional ecological knowledge, local ecological knowledge, social inequality, neo-liberalism, Tsimshian, Brittany, Ireland, maritime communities, coastal communities, ethnoecology, First Nations land claims

David Pokotylo, PhD

David Pokotylo, PhD

Associate Professor

Heritage conservation

Patricia A. Shaw

Patricia A. Shaw

Professor

Founding Chair, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program

First Nations languages, endangered languages, language revitalization, community capacity-building for language sustainability, archival research for endangered Aboriginal languages

John Innes

John Innes

Professor

Forestry, forest management, forest certification, aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecosystems, forest management, forest policy, social impact, sustainability, drought, forest fires, wildfires, heat waves, people’s responses to heat waves, impact of heat waves on forests, adaptation of forests to climate change, responses of resorts (such as Whistler) to climate change, biological diversity, sustainable development, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Lorraine Weir, PhD

Lorraine Weir, PhD

Professor

Tsilhqot’in Title case, Oral history evidence in Canadian courts, Oral history, “Time immemorial” in Indigenous contexts, First Nations, Indigenous literature

Douglas Harris, BA History, LL.B, LL.M, PhD

Douglas Harris, BA History, LL.B, LL.M, PhD

Associate Professor; Nathan T. Nemetz Chair in Legal History

Property law, legal history, fisheries law, condominium law

Ralph Matthews

Ralph Matthews

Professor

Regional development, community development, fisheries, aquaculture, blood donation, environment, resilient community project, infertility, coastal communities, coastal British Columbia, Newfoundland, common property, community, regional development policy, community development policy, Atlantic Canada, social capital, community health, sustainable development

Susan Rowley, PhD

Associate Professor and Curator

Curator of Public Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology

Museums, collaboration, archaeology, material culture, repatriation, Arctic, the North

Bruce Granville Miller

Bruce Granville Miller

Professor

Aboriginal peoples of North America, Coast Salish peoples, aboriginal law, aboriginal politics, concepts of indigeneity, human rights and Indigenous peoples, law and society, oral history evidence in court, comparative studies of aboriginal-state relations

Paige Raibmon, PhD

Professor

First Nations on the Northwest coast, cultural representations, relocation of Indigenous peoples, environmental health on reserves, First Nations history

Lisa Matthewson, PhD

Professor

Endangered languages, semantics, Salish languages, Tsimshianic languages, Austronesian languages

Gary Q. Bull

Gary Q. Bull

Professor

International forest policy, environmental services markets, carbon markets, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Cynthia Nicol

Cynthia Nicol

Associate Professor

Mathematics teacher education, culturally responsive pedagogy, Aboriginal education, care-based and problem-based learning

Tracy L. Friedel, PhD

Tracy L. Friedel, PhD

Retired Associate Professor

Youth resistance, non-formal learning, land-based pedagogy, place-based learning, environmental education, outdoor education, oral histories, labour history, injury prevention

Dr. Helen Brown, PhD, RN

Dr. Helen Brown, PhD, RN

Associate Professor

health and social equity for rural and remote Indigenous communities; maternal and child health for rural and remote women

Joe Weiler

Joe Weiler

Professor (Emeritus)

Anti-corruption and the law, sports law, law of cyberspace

Gordon Christie

Gordon Christie

Professor

Aboriginal law, Indigenous legal orders, Indigenous legal theory, legal theory, trans-cultural tort law, Delgamuukw decision