Indigenous Initiatives Newsletters
Our newsletter is sent out monthly with topics of interest that include past and future events, links to stories published on our site, and media/articles that caught our team’s attention during that month. I began writing these for our team in October 2020 to the present.
Orange Shirt Day: CTLT Edubytes Article
This editorial shared opportunities to learn more about the history and legacy of Residential Schools, and provided opportunities to reflect and engage with the healing and reconciliation process.
Supporting Classroom Climate with CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Resources Workshop
Co-facilitated with my colleague, Hannah Coderre, this workshop showcased our different CTLT Indigenous Initiatives supported resources and ways that faculty and staff can use them in classroom and workplace discussions.
Indigenous Initiatives Newsletter Brief
The one page newsletter brief serves to help others know more about the scope in communications and highlighting news, events, and resources related to Indigenous engagement across UBC campus. This document includes who our audience is, what guides our decisions in what we share in the newsletter, and how to submit related items to our newsletter.
What I Learned in Class Today Project Website Management
The WILICT website is home to the research from this over 10 year project. Part of my role is website management and updating through WordPress.
CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Virtual Coffee Hours
When I teach and facilitate, I model how important it is to approach Indigenous topics with humility and responsibility in mind. Once a month, I cohost my team’s Virtual Coffees, where we invite the UBC community in for consultations and discussion on thoughtfully engaging with Indigenous content and representation. In this space, I share resources, activities, and act as a sounding board for new ideas to integrate into coursework.
Respect, Sincerity & Responsibility: Land Acknowledgements @ UBC Asynchronous Course
CTLT Indigenous Initiatives and HR Workplace Learning & Engagement launched Respect, Sincerity & Responsibility: Land Acknowledgements @ UBC, a Workplace Learning Canvas course intended to guide you when creating a land acknowledgement. It explores what land acknowledgements are, their importance, and addresses barriers people face when creating an acknowledgement.
Learning Tool: Show & Tell Land Acknowledgements at UBC Workshop
This workshop was recorded on YouTube as the facilitation team of the Virtual Land Acknowledgements at UBC workshop walked learners through the new online learning tool, and reflect as a team on the process behind its development.
Doing This Work With Care WILICT Article
On March 8, CTLT’s Indigenous Initiatives department welcomed the UBC community to a virtual screening and panel discussion of the Faculty Perspectives film created by the What I Learned in Class Today: Educational Experiences and Institutional Responses Renewed Project. My colleague, Keirra Webb, and I co-wrote this article to highlight the themes of the discussion.
WILICT Renewed Project Outreach Discussions
With the release of new faculty perspectives videos from the WILICT renewed project (What I Learned in Class Today), our project team hosted multiple PD and discussion groups on the faculty perspectives videos.
UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan: CTLT Edubytes Article
Cowritten with multiple campus partners, this article featured resources framed to help staff, faculty, and students engage with the Indigenous Strategic Plan
Using Statistics in Libguides Presentation
This is a presentation I put together for the Xwi7xwa Librarians and other UBC librarians on how to use the statistics feature in libguides--the name of the software program UBC uses for research guides--to better understand what students are using and are not for research guide curation.
Article Review--Sharing stories: An exploration of genres in storytimes
An article review from my early childhood literacy class. It illustrated to me that librarians in all fields sometimes have problems diversifying the voices they are sharing.
Indigenous Music & Dance Research Guide
This Research Guide provides strategies and information for researchers searching for Indigenous artists, dance and music performances.
Wet’suwet’en Virtual Teach-In Resource Sheet
This resource sheet was created in collaboration with folks from CTLT, the First Nations Longhouse, and Xwi7xwa Library for the Virtual Teach In on the legal foundations of Wet’suwet’en Title and Rights and the treatment of the Wet’suwet’en land defenders and supporters in Spring 2020.
Distance Research Guide
This guide is intended for UBC students, faculty, staff, and researchers who have been impacted by the recent changes in services due to global health concerns. This includes updates, information on getting your devices connected to UBC services, and tips and tricks for researching Indigenous topics remotely.
Indigenous Land Based Activism Guide
This research guide is intended for students and faculty to use and locate resources to help their understanding of the complexities surrounding Indigenous spatial and land based activism.
Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Research Guide
In June 2019, the MMIWG National Inquiry released their final report, finding that persistent and deliberate human and Indigenous rights violations and abuses are the root cause behind Canada’s staggering rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people. This guide is to help in locating resources about Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls.
Cowboy Romance Readers' Advisory
In my readers' advisory class, I had the opportunity to focus on making a guide to a sub genre. As romance is my favourite genre to read and recommend, I focused an assignment in this class on romance guides.
Xwi7xwa Library Website Posts
Website & spotlight posts that highlight different areas of the library collection including fiction, non-fiction, children's books, & graphic novels.
Marketing the ‘Tis the Season Reading Program
In my readers' advisory class, we focused on how to not just make fiction programming, but also how to market it.
Yosemite Library & Wi-Fi Topic Briefing
This briefing is to illustrate to the Yosemite Conservancy that adding Wi-Fi to the YRL will help it continue to make available its collection to its primary user group, researchers and park staff, while attracting other user groups and important information practices to the YRL.
Information & Empowerment Seminar
A short seminar given in my LIBR 508 class on Indigenous knowledge and initiatives based on assigned readings from instructors. It is interesting to see the differences between how I viewed Indigenous knowledge before working at Xwi7xwa and the work I am creating now.
Green Living Workshops
Green Lifestyle workshops are for people to adopt and promote simple living practices in their everyday life. Our workshops are focused for rural communities because many of these communities have not been included in environmental movements in the past. Our idea of simple living is consistently making eco-conscious decisions in your home and with your purchases, in order to minimize the impact of your daily habits.
Subject Heading Systems Reflection
As a group, this essay evaluates the strengths and limitations of a subject heading system’s ability to provide access to the contents of books. It considers the process of preparing our system for another group, and the process of implanting another group's system. This essays examines the constraints and benefits of a subject heading system.
Subject Headings Systems
Our subject headings system is for parents who want to find children books to help raise their tiny feminists and future activists. Our group created this system as a part of our Foundations of Resource Description and Knowledge Organization class.