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Check out the Aboriginal History Month Display at UBC Education Library
The Display for National Aboriginal History Month is up and ready for June. Come by and have a look at the various books and DVDs related to the history and culture of Canada’s First Nations communities.
“June was declared National Aboriginal History month in 2010, after Nanaimo-Cowichan Member of Parliament, Jean Crowder, introduced a motion to make June a month of recognition for First Nations, Inuit and Métis. The motion received unanimous consent in the House of Commons.
Aboriginal History Month provides an opportunity to recognize not only the historic contributions of Aboriginal peoples to the development of Canada, but also the strength of present-day Aboriginal communities and their promise for the future.
Celebrating National Aboriginal History Month in June is a fitting tribute to the heritage and diversity of First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities across Canada.” (http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100013778/1100100013779)
UBC Education Library has selected a wide array of our collection, mostly geared toward the instruction of Aboriginal History to children, for the display.
June is National Aboriginal History Month, Aboriginal (Un)History Month at UBC
Throughout the month of June, the Library will be celebrating Aboriginal scholarship, creativity, and intellectual traditions with its second annual Aboriginal (Un)History Month.
Featuring exhibits at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC), Asian Library, and book displays at several library branches, the (Un)History month activities introduce ways UBC Indigenous scholars are bridging communities and transforming academic spaces through Indigenous approaches to research, pedagogy, and governance. It aims to educate and invite dialogue about (inter)relationships between place, recognition, and memory.
The UBC Education Library will also have book displays on the main level. One on the table near the circulation desk and another in the glass display case near the Reference area. Photos of the displays will be posted shortly in an upcoming blog post.
The month includes:
Engaging Indigenous Knowledge(s) installation – features six cases at the IKBLC level 2 foyer.
- Place, Belonging and Promise: Indigenizing the International Academy
- Being Well Being: The Institute for Aboriginal Health’s Teaching and Learning Garden
- Year of Indigenous Education
- Living Our Indigenous Languages
- Truth and Reconciliation in Canada
- Raven in the Library at X̱wi7x̱wa
Indigenous cultures in Asia exhibit (Asian Library)
Iron Pulpit: Missionary Printing Presses in British Columbia exhibit (Rare Books and Special Collections, IKBLC Level 1)
- Featuring materials produced on missionary printing presses in British Columbia between the 1850s and 1910s, this exhibition looks at printed materials in context of Indigenous-Christian encounters, colonialism, and print culture in the province.
and Aboriginal literature displays in Education, Koerner, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, X̱wi7x̱wa and Woodward libraries.
For those interested in online resources,
- Aboriginal Business Education and Resources from the Small Business Accelerator program
- Aboriginal Law research guide
- Delgamuukw Resources guide – Aboriginal Land and Title case
- Delgamuukw Trial Transcripts
Posters are available as well (11×17) PDF.
For more information about Aboriginal (Un)History month activities, please contact Ann Doyle, Head, X̱wi7x̱wa Library at ann.doyle@ubc.ca.
The University of British Columbia Point Grey campus is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. We thank Musqueam for its hospitality and support.
Vancouver School Board considers social media policy
The Vancouver School Board is thinking of implementing a social media policy that would prohibit teachers from being friends with their students on social media sites. Teachers and students would only be permitted to communicate on these sites for educational purposes (ex: asking/answering questions about a classroom assignment, contributing to a class blog, etc).
Click here to read the article by CBC news.
UBC Education Library now on Twitter
It has been only three weeks since UBC Education Library joined Twitter and already we’ve gained quite a nice following! We’re tweeting news in Education and UBC Education Library events and workshops.
Won’t you follow us if you haven’t already?
Education group asks for mandatory aboriginal studies course in BC schools
From The Vancouver Sun article:
Key education stakeholders are asking the B.C. government to require all students to take a course in aboriginal studies before graduation.
While they already learn about aboriginal issues during Social Studies classes, this proposal would require students to also take a separate course, such as B.C. First Nations Studies 12 or the First Peoples course offered in Grades 10, 11 and 12.