Centre for Indigenous Fisheries (CIF)
The Centre is committed to research, teaching, and service that places community needs and interests at the heart of all they do. Their work ultimately aims to support the management and protection of culturally significant fish and fisheries in ways that uphold and respect Indigenous rights, values, practices and knowledge systems.
Respectful Indigenous Relations
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
The City of Vancouver is within the overlapping traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and selílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, while UBC’s Vancouver-Point Grey campus is situated on the land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm. At UBC, a land acknowledgment is usually given before public events, presentations, and ceremonies, and sounds like this:
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered today on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.
Land or territorial acknowledgments are important because they publicly give recognition that UBC’s Vancouver-Point Grey campus is on land that was taken from the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people without a legal treaty (“unceded”), and this land still retains traditional and ancestral value to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.
The UBC Okanagan campus is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation.
Learn more
- xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and UBC
- UBC’s Indigenous Portal
- UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan
- UBC Indigenous Research Support Initiative
- UBC Indigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines
- First Nations House of Learning at UBC
- Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action