Latest news

• Youth Podcasting Project opportunity for self-identifying Indigenous YouthFebruary 25, 2021
  The Centre is looking for three Indigenous youth (ages 18-30) to participate in a pilot series.
• Dr. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe), reappointed as Academic Director of the CentreFebruary 24, 2021
  Dr. Turpel-Lafond has served as the Academic Director since 2018. Her second term begins June 1, 2021.
• Implementing UNDRIP Dialogue summary report and video availableFebruary 23, 2021
  The Centre recently held a Dialogue on implementing the UN Declaration through Bill C-15.
• Honouring Indigenous Writers eventsFebruary 22, 2021
  The annual event includes author readings, wikipedia training and a panel discussion on Wikipedia as public scholarship.
• Assembly of First Nations hosts virtual forum on Bill C-15February 8, 2021
  The forum on February 10 and 11 is free to attend.

Press releases

• To end racism against Indigenous peoples, we have to name it and speak upJanuary 18, 2021
  Centre Academic Director Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Aki-kwe, authored an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about racism in Canada.
• National partnership benefits residential school SurvivorsNovember 26, 2020
  The Centre has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre in Ontario.
• 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.

Media coverage

• Racism in health care is taking a terrible toll on Indigenous People, report finds
• Update expected for report on racism against Indigenous peoples in B.C. health-care system
• Decrying medical racism, Indigenous leaders demand health care ‘transformation’
• Federal, provincial officials to discuss ways to counter anti-Indigenous racism in health care
• Child and family services legislation must end the era of ‘blacked-out time’