Latest news

• Things Changed for Kids in Care Under the NDP. But Has It Been Enough?October 14, 2020
  Centre Academic Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, commented in the Tyee about recent developments in child welfare.
• Webinar highlights foundations of Orange Shirt DayOctober 8, 2020
  On September 22, UBC Learning Circle and the First Nations House of Learning hosted an online webinar with Phyllis Webstad founder of the Orange Shirt Day Society.
• The Centre welcomes Dr. Shaffer as Executive DirectorOctober 7, 2020
  Dr. Shaffer has been cross-appointed in a dual role to the Centre and UBC iSchool in the Faculty of Arts.
• ‘A country’s shame’: Indigenous woman’s cries for help, abuse before death spur calls for action on systemic racism in healthOctober 5, 2020
  The Centre’s Academic Director, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, spoke to the Globe and Mail about the death of Joyce Echaquan and systemic racism.
• Virtual tour of Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre availableOctober 4, 2020
  Learn more about the historic site of conscience, the Shingwauk Indian Residential Schools Centre.

Press releases

• Centre awarded funding for multi-year exhibition documenting Indian hospitals in BC and AlbertaJuly 14, 2020
  Collaborative exhibit sheds light on the forgotten history of “Indian” and tuberculosis hospitals from the 1940s to the early 1970s.
• New discussion paper series highlights UNDRIP implementation in BCMarch 10, 2020
  The Centre’s new discussion paper series aims to create dialogue about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre congratulates BC on implementing a key Call to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionNovember 28, 2019
  The summary report highlights some of the issues raised at the November dialogue, including a technical review of the bill, a primer with more detailed explanation of DRIPA, and a summary of some of the key discussion at the session.
• Dialogue of leaders highlights critical considerations for implementing the UN DeclarationDecember 6, 2018
  The Centre has released a summary report examining some of the past and current efforts that have been made to transform Crown-Indigenous relations across Canada, along with providing critical considerations for implementing the UN Declaration in British Columbia.
• Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond joins Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre and Allard School of LawApril 28, 2018
  Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-kwe), a renowned Indigenous Canadian judge, lawyer and advocate, has joined UBC as the inaugural director of the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC).

Media coverage

• Things Changed for Kids in Care Under the NDP. But Has It Been Enough?
• ‘A country’s shame’: Indigenous woman’s cries for help, abuse before death spur calls for action on systemic racism in health
• Evan Solomon Show: ‘It’s horrific’ dying Indigenous woman taunted in hospital
• Why the UBC community needs to pay attention this Orange Shirt Day
• Indigenous woman records slurs, taunts of Quebec hospital staff before her death