"Fight COVID Racism" Press Conference
WHEN: Thursday, May 28, 2020 | 1PM - 2PM
WHERE: Zoom Conference, Register here (https://bit.ly/2ZDKxfv)
To combat the increasing anti-Asian racism, Chinese Canadian organizations across Canada launch Fight
COVID Racism (www.covidracism.ca) a website dedicated to tracking and reporting anti-Asian racism and
xenophobia in Canada.
Join to learn about the campaign and the webtool and get…
UVIC’S Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement (CIRCLE) presents a roundtable discussion based on Nick XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton and John Price’s forthcoming article “Whose Land Is It? Rethinking Sovereignty in British Columbia” (BC Studies 204, January 2020). Joining the authors for this discussion will be W̱SÁNEĆ Elder, Dr. John Elliot, and Professor Rebecca Johnson, Faculty…
Hawaiians have been resisting efforts to place telescopes in the summit of Mauna Kea, a sacred site. Below are some websites with more information about this resistance.
Short Video:
https://www.puuhuluhulu.com/learn/50-years-of-mismanaging-maunakea
Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Maunakea from a telescope: The mountain is among the most sacred sites inHawaiian cosmology. By Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat Jul 24, 2019,…
A six-part series of articles by Dr. John Price in the Times Colonist of Victoria examining the role of the provincial government in the uprooting, detention, dispossession and exile of Japanese Canadians, 1941-1949.
Righting a historical wrong
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/our-history-righting-a-historical-wrong-for-japanese-canadians-1.23996497
B.C. engineers a coup
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/our-history-after-pearl-harbor-province-lobbied-for-displacement-of-japanese-canadians-1.24002530
B.C. polices the camps
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/our-history-b-c-went-out-of-its-way-to-make-life-miserable-for-japanese-canadians-1.24010519
Punishing the children
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/our-history-young-people-paid-high-price-for-b-c-s-exile-of-japanese-canadians-1.24017522
Dispossession
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/dispossession-how-b-c-stole-the-lives-of-22-000-japanese-canadians-1.24023326
The Final Straw
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/the-final-straw-japanese-canadians-offered-an-impossible-choice-1.24030068
Songhees Elder Joan Morris sharing her recollections about bartering seafood for other staples in Oak Bay and Chinatown. Photo by John Lutz
Forty people came together to talk about Asian Canadians on Lekwungen Territories at the Robert Bateman Centre in downtown Victoria on Monday, November 7.
Surrounded by the artistic works of Robert Bateman and a…
CALL FOR PAPERS:
(UN)SETTLING THE ISLANDS: RACE, INDIGENEITY AND THE TRANSPACIFIC
Hay ch qa’ sii’em siye’yu mukw mustimuxw.
In keeping with regional protocol, ACVI acknowledges and thanks the Coast Salish people on whose traditional territory Vancouver Island University resides. We value the opportunity to share, learn, and live together on Snunéymuxw Traditional Territory.
“Asian Canadians on Vancouver Island: Race,…
Registration Open! Asian Canadians on Lekwungen Territories: Race, Indigeneity, and the Transpacific
Time: Monday, November 7, 9am-1pm
Location: Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC
Asian Canadians and First Nations have been interacting in Victoria area for over 150 years, and we want to hear their stories, bitter or sweet. Join the ACVI team and guest speakers John Adams, Charlayne Thornton-Joe, Ann-Lee and Gordon Switzer, and Songhees elder Joan Morris at the Robert…
Dr. Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton
Associate Dean Margaret Cameron recently announced that Dr. Nicholas XEMŦOLTW̱ Claxton has been appointed to the position of Visiting Indigenous Scholar in the Faculty of Humanities.
The Faculty established the fellowship as a small step towards Indigenization in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action last year. Dr. Claxton…
Kimi Yamada (second from left) and Kay Fujiwara (second from right) unveiled the memorial and plaque. They shared this historical moment with Duncan Mayor Phil Kent (on the left) and City Councillor Sharon Jackson (far right). Photo by John Price.
Kay Fujiwara and Kimi Yamada smiled and laughed as they stepped forward to unveil a memorial…
Dean's Office, Humanities, calls for applications for Humanities Indigenous Scholar (see below).