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Dr. Dana Lepofsky

WARREN GILL AWARD WINNER, 2017

間眅埶AV professor and archaeologist Dana Lepofskys commitment to research partnerships with First Nations communities has earned her 間眅埶AVs inaugural Warren Gill Award for Community Impact 2017.

She has spent more than two decades at 間眅埶AV. Her teaching and research focus on the relationships of Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples to their environments, in the past and the present.

She was among the first archaeologists in the region to include First Nations communities as equal partners in research programs, leading to strengthened capacities in these communities for deciphering, appreciating, conserving, and educating future generations about their past.

Significantly, First Nations communities with which she has worked supported her nomination for the Gill award. They include the , the , the , and the .

First Nations community partners

郭硃單眶硃梭喧莽a梯

Gitgaata Nation

The are a part of the Tsimshian peoples, and have occupied the lands and waters around Txalgiuw (Hartley Bay), for millennia. Today, about 130 勞勳喧域aa喧硃 live in Hartley Bay, with another 500 in Prince Rupert. Others in Terrace, Vancouver Island, and Vancouver, BC.

郭硃單眶硃梭喧莽a梯 (or Old Town) was the ancestral home and main winter village for the Gitgaat Nation, located in Kitkiata Inlet on the northwest side of Douglas Channel.

晨繳聆剞硃喧

Heiltsuk Nation

 encompasses 16,658 square kilometres of land, and extensive nearshore and offshore waters in an area that has only recently come to be known as the Central Coast of BC. 

The goal in these landscape level projects, like with the CKP projects, is to bring together multiple voices to tell about the importance of these places.

Reawakening history

A new website re-awakens thousands of years of Heiltsuk Nation voices and history is the result of more than eight years of collaboration between the Heiltsuk people, 間眅埶AV, University of Victoria (UVic), the Hakai Institute, and producers from Greencoast Media.

 Learn more at . Visit the site at .

晨繳聆剞硃喧: Our Voices our Land () uses video, photos and stories to present an engaging overview of Heiltsuk connections to 晨繳聆剞硃喧 (How-yaht), one of an immense network of culturally important landscapes in Heiltsuk territory on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

Click on the right to watch Dana Lepofsky's interview about her research work.

Read more about Dana Lepofsky's work at her faculty page.