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Research

For the past twenty years, Dr. Ignace has focused her research on the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people of the Plateau, with interests in aboriginal land use and occupancy, ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, ethnohistory, and the linguistic and anthropological analysis of Aboriginal language discourse.

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Publications

Monographs

* identifies peer-reviewed monographs

Forthcoming. Nancy J. Turner, Marianne B. Ignace and Dawn Loewen

Secwepemc Ethnobotany. (An extensive monograph on Secwepemc plant use and knowledge, 300 pp. Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press. ms. currently being revised and in circulation in the Secwepemc Nation). To be published 2019.

* 2018. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace. A new look at Interior Salish through the lens of multiple disciplines beyond, and including Linguistics. In: Henry Davis Festschrift, UBC Monographs in Linguistics series.

* 2017. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace, eds. and (co-)authors, Secwepemc People, Land and Laws - Yeri7 re Stsqeys-kucw- (additional co-authors, include Mike Rousseau, Nancy Turner, Ken Favrholdt) McGill-Queens University Press 690 pp. manuscript. scheduled for publication summer 2017

* 2016. Ignace, Marianne, Nancy J. Turner and Sandra Peacock, eds., Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany. Contributions in Ethnobiology Series of the International Journal of Ethnobiology. This edited volume of 13 chapters includes 6 papers co-authored by M. Ignace (three of them lead author; see below, Peer-reviewed Papers and Book Contributions). http://ethnobiology.org/contributions

2015. British Columbia Kindergarten to Grade 12 First Nations Languages Curriculum Building Guide. First Nations Education Steering Committee, North Vancouver.

2008. Margaret Seguin Anderson and Marianne Ignace, Visible Grammar: Sm'algyax Grammar Resources - Twenty User-Friendly Modules on Key Sm'algyax Structures. Published by Wap Sigatgyet, School District 52, Prince Rupert, British Columbia (while not peer reviewed, this book was reviewed and approved by the Tsmsyen Smalgyax Authority).

1999. Murphy, Peter, George Nicholas, and Marianne Ignace, eds., Coyote U: Stories from Secwepemc Education Institute. Penticton: Theytus Press

1998. Handbook for Aboriginal Language Program Planning in British Columbia.130pp.  First Nations Education Steering Committee, Vancouver. Second Printing, 1999. (This book has been used as a textbook at Canadian universities and internationally). Online version:

* 1989. The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Mythical Discourse. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Peer Reviewed Articles in Edited Volumes accepted for publication or published

* Nancy J. Turner and Marianne B. Ignace. 2017. Chapter 1, Introduction to this volume. In: M. Ignace, N. Turner and S. Peacock, eds., Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany. Contributions in Ethnobiology Series of the International Journal of Ethnobiology. http://ethnobiology.org/contributions 

* 2016 Ronald Ignace and Marianne Ignace. 2017. Re tsuwet.s-kucw ne Secwepemc繳lecw:

Secwepemc Resource Use and Sense of Place. Chapter 2 in: M. Ignace, N. Turner and S. Peacock, eds., Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany. Contributions in Ethnobiology Series of the International Journal of Ethnobiology. http://ethnobiology.org/contributions 

* 2016. Peacock, Sandra L., Marianne B. Ignace and Nancy J. Turner. Re Secwepemc re Syecwmenulecwems: Secwepemc Stewardship of Land and Resources. Chapter 5 in: M. Ignace, N. Turner and S. Peacock, eds., Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany. Contributions in Ethnobiology Series of the International Journal of Ethnobiology. http://ethnobiology.org/contributions 

* 2017. Ignace, Marianne and Nancy J. Turner. Coyote, Grouse and Trees: Secwepemc Lessons in Ethnobiological Knowledge. Chapter 11 in: M. Ignace, N. Turner and S. Peacock, eds., Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany. Contributions in Ethnobiology Series of the International Journal of Ethnobiology. http://ethnobiology.org/contributions 

* 2017. Ignace, Marianne, Ronald E. Ignace and Nancy J. Turner. 2017. Re tmicw te skukwstels es tuwitentels: Secwepemc Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom Now and in the Future. Chapter 13 in: M. Ignace, N. Turner and S. Peacock, eds., Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany. Contributions in Ethnobiology Series of the International Journal of Ethnobiology. http://ethnobiology.org/contributions 

* Ignace, Marianne and N.J. Turner. 2017. Chapter 13, Conclusions. In: M. Ignace, N. Turner and S. Peacock, eds., Secwepemc People and Plants: Research Papers in Shuswap Ethnobotany. Contributions in Ethnobiology Series of the International Journal of Ethnobiology. http://ethnobiology.org/contributions 

* 2013. Hudson, Douglas and Marianne Ignace. The Plateau: A Regional Overview. in: C. R. Wilson and Christopher Fletcher, Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience, 4th Edition. Oxford University Press (revised and expanded version of 2004 article).

* 2013. Ignace, Marianne and Ron Ignace, The Secwepemc: Traditional Resource Use and Rights to Land in: R. Wilson and C. Fletcher, eds., Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience, 4th Edition. Don Mills. Ont.: Oxford University Press (revised and expanded version of 2004 article).

* 2011. Why is my People Sleeping First Nations Hip Hop between the Rez and the City. In: Heather A. Howard and Craig Proulx, eds., Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities: Transformations and Continuity. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 

* 2008. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace 

Canadian Aboriginal Languages and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, in: Catherine Bell and Val Napoleon, eds., First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law: Case Studies, Voices, and Perspectives. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 

* 2005. Duane Thomson and Marianne Ignace, They Made Themselves Our Guests: Power Relationships in the Interior Plateau Region of the Cordillera in the Fur Trade Era. B.C. Studies no. 146, Summer 2005

* 2005. Marianne Ignace and George Ignace, Tagging, Rapping and the Voices of the Ancestors: Expressing Identity between the Small City and the Rez. In: Will Garrett-Petts, ed., The Small Cities Book. New Star Publications. 

* 2004. Marianne Ignace, Marianne and Ron Ignace

The Secwepemc: Traditional Resource Use and Rights to Land. In: R. Bruce Morrison and C. Roderick Wilson, eds., Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience. Oxford and Toronto: Oxford University Press. 3rd edition

* 2004. Hudson, Douglas and Marianne Ignace, Overview: The Plateau. In: R. Bruce Morrison and C. Roderick Wilson, eds., Native Peoples: The Canadian Experience. Oxford and Toronto: Oxford University Press. 3rd edition

* 2000. Turner, Nancy J., Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom of Aboriginal Peoples of Northwestern North America. In: Ecological Applications, Special Edition, Jesse Ford, editor. 

* 1998. The Secwepemc (Shuswap), in: Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 12: Plateau, Deward E. Walker Jr., Ed. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

* 1998. Ignace, Marianne and Ron Ignace, The Old Wolf in Sheeps Clothing: Canadian Aboriginal Peoples and Multiculturalism. In: D. Haselbach, ed., Multiculturalism in a Multicultural World: Canadian and German Perspectives on Multiculturalism. Muenster, Germany. 

* 1997. Turner, Nancy, Marianne Ignace and Brian Compton. Secwepemc (Shuswap) Tree Names: Keys to the Past? In: Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins and M. Dale Kinkade, eds., Salish Languages and Linguistics: Theoretical and Descriptive Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 

* 1996. Ignace, Chief Ron, Marianne Ignace, Hari Sharma, Monique Layton and Colin Yerbury, A Partnership in Success. Canadian Journal of Continuing Education. 

* 1992. Haida Public Discourse and its Social Context, in: Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 2, 1992.

Non-Refereed Articles, Essays and Book Contributions

2011. Secwepemc Food Plants: The Art of Working with Wild Plants for Sustainable Living. In: Produce/Produce. Co-published by Textual Studies in Canada, Thompson Rivers University, Arnica Artist Run Centre and The Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops BC.

2011. Memories of Xaad Kil since the 1970s. In: That Which Makes Us Haida the Haida Language. Edited by Scott Steedman and Jisgang, Nika Collison. Haida Gwaii Museum Press, Skidegate BC

2011. Marianne Ignace and Skeetchestn Elders, Re Melamens re Skitsestnemc - Skeetchestn Secwepemc Medicine Plants. Skeetchestn Community School.

2009. Gin wadluwaan talang kwaayandaa.asaang: A Haida Counting Book. Xaad Kil Hl Gusuu.u Society, Old Massett

2009. Xaadaas Gaanee Haida Berries. Xaad Kil Hl Gusuu.u Society, Old Massett

2009. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace, Le7 ri7 re stsillen ne tmicw-kt! Secwepemc Plant Foods. Skeetchestn Community School.

2009. Re Tmesc矇cen ell re spipyuy7e ne Secwepemc繳lecw Animals in Secwepemc Country. Skeetchestn Community School.

1999. Guardian Spirit Questing in the Nineties: A Mothers Thoughts. In: P. Murphy, G. Nicholas and M. Ignace, eds., Coyote U: Stories from Secwepemc Education Institute. Penticton: Theytus Press

1999. Ron Ignace and Marianne Ignace, "Commentary on 'The Priest and the Altarboy' " In: Peter Murphy, George Nicholas, Marianne Ignace, eds. Coyote U: Stories from the Secwepemc Education Institute. Penticton: Theytus Press

1998. I-Ju Sandra Lai and Marianne Ignace, A Preliminary Analysis of Secwepemc Language Acquisition by a Young Child. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages.

1996. Introduction: Aboriginal Peoples Plant Use and Knowledge in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. In: R. Coupe, R. Parish and D. Lloyd, Plants of Southern Interior of British Columbia B.C. Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing. I also authored and/or edited all aboriginal plant use information on several hundred species in same volume.

1994. Articles on F. Boas, A. Goldenweiser, I. Hallowell, A. Lowie and A. Kroeber in: Klaus E. Mueller, Ed., Lexikon der Ethnologie.Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

1982. The Potlatch in Anthropological Theory: A Re-evaluation of Certain Ethnographic Data and Theoretical Approaches. In:Abhandlungen der Voelkerkundlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft. Nortorf.

1981. Franz Boas. In: J. Wintle, ed., Makers of Modern Culture. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

1978. Hauptstroemungen der Linguistik im XX. Jahrhundert (Major Trends in Linguistics in the 20th Century). In: K. Fassheber, ed.,Die Grossen der Weltgeschichte, Vol. X. Zuerich: Kindler. 

Films, Exhibits and Multimedia Projects

2017. Marianne Ignace, Costa Dedegikas, Ronald Ignace and Skeetchestn Elders. Tlli7sa Secwepemc Story App. A demo (beta version) multimedia storytelling app launched at the Skeetchestn Secwepemc Gathering August 20, 2016. Scheduled for distribution in October 2016.

2011 and 2012. Contribution of photographs and text to the exhibit, That which Makes Us Haida. Shown at the Haida Gwaii Museum, Skidegate, August December 2011, and at Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, May September 2012. 

2005. Marianne Ignace and Kathie McKinnon, Curators. First Nations Youth Art. Contribution to the Art Exhibit Urban Insights, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, B.C. April May 2005 (Sponsored by SSHRC C.U.R.A., Kamloops Art Gallery and University College of the Cariboo (now Thompson Rivers University).

2001. Marianne Ignace and Collene Armstrong (Points North Design) Secwepemctsin. A Language Course. A multimedia CD-ROM for Shuswap Language, Western Dialect, Produced by Secwepemc Cultural Education Society. Consists of 6 Units @ 5-6 lessons, each with 10-15 screens that teach vocabulary and grammar of Shuswap with the help of text, extensive digital photography, graphics, and several hundred recorded voice files. 

1999. Marianne Ignace and Sarah Jules, Curators. Re Tsuwet.s re Secwepemc: The Things We Do. An Exhibit of Secwepemc Photography, Then and Now, In Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Partnership between Secwepemc Cultural Education Society and 間眅埶AV.  Kamloops Art Gallery February April 1999

1999. Marianne Ignace, Ron Ignace and Gerald Etienne. Re Tsuwet.s re Secwepemc: The Things We Do. Catalogue to accompany the Exhibit of Secwepemc Photography, Then and Now, In Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Partnership between Secwepemc Cultural Education Society and 間眅埶AV.  Kamloops Art Gallery 1999. 20 pp.

1999. Marianne Ignace and Kathy Michel. Learning Secwepemctsin through Immersion . 19 min. Video, VHS. Script by Marianne Ignace and Kathy Michel, filmed and edited by Marianne Ignace, produced by Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, Kamloops. 

Conference Papers, Presentations and Workshops

Academic Conference Papers

* Peer Reviewed Presentations

* 2019. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Documenting and re-claiming Secwepemc ornithological knowledge through research and technology. Peer reviewed paper, ICLDC 6, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 28-May 3, 2019.

* 2018. Marianne Ignace. Deploying Elders Knowledge, Treasures In Museums, And Good, Heavy Thinking To Reconstruct Indigenous Storied Knowledge. MW18 Museums and the Web Conference, Vancouver, BC. April 2018.

* 2018. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Secwepemc Ethno-ornithological Knowledge Expressed in Oral Traditions: How it is Told and What it Tells Us. Paper, 27th International Ornithology Congress, Vancouver, BC

2018. Marianne Ignace. Indigenous Language Revitalization and Museums. Royal BC Museum, Invited Presentation, Expert Panel on Indigenous Languages. March 2018.

2017. Ignace, Marianne, Peter Jacobs and Gail Zboch. First Nations Languages in the Twenty-First Century: Looking Back, Looking Forward. C2U Expo, Vancouver, BC.

* 2017. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Secwepemc Loons as Symbols of Power and Transformation. Society of Ethnobiology Conference, Montreal, Quebec. 

* 2017. Marianne Ignace, Lawrence Bell and Kelli Finney. Gyaahlangee X戔iinangaas: Co-creating links between Haida Language Acquisition and Stories Told on the Land. Peer reviewed paper, ICLDC 5, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb.-March 2017.

* 2017. Ronald Ignace and Marianne Ignace. Tlli7sa ell re uqw7繳qwis: Engaging

Indigenous language learners with an epic story through a language learning app. Peer reviewed paper, ICLDC 5, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb.-March 2017.

* 2016. Marianne Ignace, Khelsilem Dustin Rivers, Lucy Bell, and Julienne Ignace How can University First Nations Partnerships support the development of advanced fluency in First Nations languages with very few speakers? Invited Position Paper Presentation. Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics and Social Sciences Humanities and Research Council. University of Calgary, May 30, 2016.

2015. Ignace, Marianne and Ronald Ignace. Imagining Tlli7sa: re-constructing a Secwepemc epic with Secwepemctsin speakers. Presentation, Fiftieth International Conference of Salish and Neighbouring Languages co-hosted by University of British Columbia and 間眅埶AV. UBC August 5-7, 2015.

* 2015. The Meaning of Secwepemc Landscape and the Deeds of Ancestors in the Face of Industrial Development. Accepted paper, Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) annual conference. Laval, Quebec, May 13-16, 2015.

* 2015. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Secwepemc Bird Talk. Accepted paper in session, What do Birds Tell US? How Ethno-Ornithology Opens Doors to Understanding Relationships with Others. Accepted paper, 38th Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, May 6-9, 2015.

* 2015. Marianne Ignace, Ronald Ignace and Lawrence Bell. Indigenous Language Story-Work: Examples from Secwepemctsin (Shuswap) and Xaad Kil (Haida). Accepted paper, 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Feb. 26-March 1, 2015.

* 2015. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. From Telling to Text to Re-creating: Examples from Indigenous Language Story Work in British Columbia. Accepted paper, Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) and Linguistic Society of America Conference, Portland, Oregon, January 8-11, 2015.

* 2014. Marianne Ignace, Mike Anderson and Ronald Ignace. Secwepemc Cultural and Spiritual Presence in Mid-Elevation Grasslands. Accepted paper, Society of Ethnobiology Conference, Cherokee North Carolina, May 11-14, 2014.

* 2014. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Challenges, Successes and Paradigm shifts in BC Indigenous Language Revitalization. Invited and accepted presentation, Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, Oregon March 23-26, 2014.

* 2014. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Regaining Secwepemc Voice through Collaborative Story Writing. Accepted paper, Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, University of Hawaii Hilo, January 2014.

* 2014. Theresa Lowther, Marianne Ignace and Nadine Leighton. Regaining Secwepemc Voice through Collaborative Story Writing. Accepted paper, Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, University of Hawaii Hilo, January 2014.

* 2014. Lucy Bell, Marianne Ignace and Lawrence Bell. Collaborative Research with Haida stories. Accepted paper, Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, University of Hawaii Hilo, January 2014.

2013. Marianne Ignace and Lawrence Bell. Xaadaas Gyaahlangee: Bringing Haida stories and places back to life with digital media. Presentation at Symposium Living Our Indigenous Languages in a Multimedia Technology Enhanced World. April 13, 2013, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC. 

2013. Ronald Ignace and Marianne Ignace. Using Digital Media in Researching and presenting Secwepemc Place Names. Presentation at Symposium Living Our Indigenous Languages in a Multimedia Technology Enhanced World. April 13, 2013, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC. 

* 2013. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace. Yiri7 re skwest繳lecwems-kucw: Secw矇pemc Sense of Place. Accepted paper, 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) Feb. 28-March 3, 2013, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

* 2012. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace. Creating Future Caretakers of Secwepemctsin through Concentrated Master-Apprentice and Community Learning. 80. Min. presentation, 19th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, May 17-19, 2012

* 2011. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace. Analysing Secwepemctsin (Shuswap) Conversation and its implications for indigenous language pedagogy. Accepted conference paper, 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), February 11-13, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii

* 2010. Marianne Ignace and Meeka Morgan. Visual Art, Music and Writing as Media and Networks of Expressing Identity among Aboriginal Youth. Accepted conference paper, CASCA Conference, Montreal, Que., June 1-3, 2010.

* 2010. Marianne Ignace, Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge and Discourse: Why K-12 science education needs indigenous ethnobiology and indigenous languages. Accepted Papter, Society of Ethnobiology Conference 2010, Victoria, BC.

* 2010. Ron Ignace and Marianne Ignace, Secwepemc Landscape Burning Practices: Views from Practitioners. Accepted Poster, Society of Ethnobiology Conference 2010, Victoria, BC.

* 2009. Marianne Ignace and Thomas Perry, A direct role for universities in language revitalization. Paper presented at Eighth International Conference on Language and Development, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2325 June 2009.Published as part of conference proceedings.

* 2009, Marianne Ignace, Ronald Ignace and Celia Nord, Digging Sticks, Woodworms and Lizards: The Practical and Symbolic Division of Labour in Secwepemc Society. Paper presented at the Society of Ethnobiology Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans.

* 2007. Keeping Canadian Indigenous Languages Alive: An Ethnographic Reflection Paper, Fifth Galway Conference on Colonialism: SETTLER COLONIALISM, 27-30 June 2007, National University of Ireland, Galway. 

* 2007. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace, Past and Present Dimensions of a Sentient Secwepemc Landscape. Paper presented at Society of Ethnobiology Conference, University of California, Berkeley, March 2007.

* 2006. Why is my People Sleeping? First Nations Hip-Hop between the Rez and the City. Paper, Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Conference. Concordia University, Montreal, May 9 -13 2006. 

* 2005. Aboriginal Language Survival and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Lessons from British Columbia First Nations. Paper, 28th Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, Anchorage, Alaska May 11-14, 2005.

2005. Marianne Ignace and Kathie McKinnon. First Nations Youth, Art and the Small City, Panel and Session, Small Cities Forum (SSHRC C.U.R.A. The Cultural Future of Small Cities), Kamloops, B.C., May 4-7, 2005.

* 2003. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace. Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Language and Narrative. Paper presented at 26th Conference, Society of Ethnobiology, Seattle, Washington, March 2003. 

2002. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace. A Ranch of our Own: A History of European/First Nations relations as told through the Memorial to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 1910. Invited paper presented at Worlds in Collision Colloquium, organized by Dept. of History, University of Victoria, Dunsmuir Lodge, Victoria, Feb. 22/23, 2002.

* 2001. Language Identities, Discourses and Translations - Examples from Aboriginal British Columbia, CASCA 2001 (Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Conference), Montreal, May 2001. Invited Panel: Language Inclusion and Exclusion: Ideology in Post-Colonial Worlds, organized by Alexandre Pirsch and Christine Jourdan.

* 2000. Secwepemc Notions of Place and Possession of Land, and their Representations in Public Discourse, Paper presented at the CASCA Conference, Calgary, May 5, 2000.

1999. Aboriginal Language Loss and Revival in BC. Panel Presentation, Language Policy and Planning Workshop at Conference Structure and Constitutency in the Languages of the Americas. University of British Columbia, March 26-28, 1999.

* 1999. Aboriginal Languages in a World of Leaking Boundaries. Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Conference, Quebec City, May 1999.

* 1998. Re Secwepemc re melamens and Traditional Healing. Paper, Canadian Anthropology (CASCA) Conference, Toronto, May 1998.

1998. I-Ju Sandra Lai and Marianne Ignace. A Preliminary Analysis of Secwepemc Language Acquisition by a Young Child. 33rd International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Kamloops, B.C.

* 1997. Northern Secwepemc Ethnobotany. Paper, 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology. Athens, Georgia, March 1997.

* 1997. Kuhnlein, H.V., N. Turner, M. Ignace, S. Peacock and D. Loewen, Nutrient Content of Secwepemc Food Plants. Society for Ethnobiology Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia.

* 1996. Salish Narrative Character Speech and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Paper, 19th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnobotany, Santa Barbara, Calif. March 1996.

* 1995. Vijaya Krishnan and Marianne Ignace. Native Healing Practices. Paper, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings/Canadian Learned Societies Conference, Montreal, June 7, 1995.

* 1995. Ron E. Ignace and Marianne Ignace, Repossessing Secwepemc Culture, Language and History. Paper, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings/Canadian Learned Societies Conference, Montreal, June 4, 1995.

* 1995. Aboriginal Nationhood and First Nations: Definitions and self-definitions of contemporary Canadian Aboriginal peoples. Paper, Canadian Anthropology Society Conference/Canadian Learned Societies Conference, Montreal, May 27, 1995.

* 1995. Nancy J. Turner, Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace, To Preserve and Maintain for the Generations to Come: Strategies for Sustainable Land and Resource Management of Aboriginal Peoples in Northwestern North America. Paper, 18th Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, Tuscon, Arizona, March 1995.

1994. More than the Sum of the Parts: Some Reflections on Secwepemc Discourse about Plants. Paper, 17th Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology, Victoria, B.C.

* 1994. Secwepemc Political Organization During the Late 19th CenturyPaper, XXI Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Conference, Vancouver, May 5-8, 1994.

1992. Nancy Turner, Marianne Ignace and B. Compton. Secwepemc (Shuswap) Tree Names: Keys to the Past? Paper, 27th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Kamloops, B.C.

1992. Working Hides: Secwepemc Womens Work and Womens Values. Paper, 45th Northwest Anthropology Conference, SimonFraser University, Burnaby.

1990. Passive and Agency in Shuswap Narrative Discourse. Paper, 25th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Vancouver, B.C.

* 1989. The Haida Discourse of Entitlement and Aboriginal Ownership. Paper, Canadian Anthropology Society Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, May 1989.

* 1988. In the Passive Voice: Shuswap Narrative Discourse. American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.

1987. Shuswap Place Names. Paper, British Columbia Heritage Conference, Kamloops, B.C.

1987. Haida Public Discourse and its Social Context. Paper, 2nd Hartley Bay Symposium, Hartley Bay, B.C.

1982. Structure and Strategy: The Symbolic Expression of Relatedness among Haida Corporate Groups. 35th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Burnaby.

1982. Haida Personal Names - An Analysis of Meaning in Action. 9th Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society, Vancouver.

1980. Understanding Haida Myths: An Investigation into the Symbolism of Northwest Coast Oral Traditions. 7th Conference of the Canadian Ethnology Society, Montreal.

1979. The Potlatch in Anthropological Theory: A Re-evaluation of certain Ethnographic Data and Theoretical Approaches. 32nd Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, Oregon.

Select Invited Presentations, Keynotes, Panels, Colloquia, Workshops (2006-16)

2019. Keynote. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Secw矇pemc Stories, History and Converging Lines of Evidence about the Past. University of British Columbia Emeritus College. April 2019.

2019. Featured presentation, Indigenous Speaker Series. Ron Ignace and Marianne Ignace. Secwepemc People, Land and Laws. Thompson Rivers University.

2018. Ron Ignace and Marianne Ignace. Secwepemc People, Land and Laws. Invited presentation, Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law, September 2018.

2018. 10,000 Years of Secwepemc History. Douglas College invited Colloquium

2016. Why First Nations languages matter and what is at stake: Addressing and reversing the impact of cultural genocide on Indigenous languages in British Columbia. November 2016.

SSHRC Imagining Canada's Future Fall Forum on Emerging Technologies. Presentation: Developing Interactive Digital Technology for Learners and Users of Diverse, Critically Endangered First Nations Languages in British Columbia and Yukon. Co-presented with Ron Ignace, Kathryn Michel, Vince Collison and Costa Dedegikas. November 2016.

Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Secwepemc Cultural and Spiritual Presence in Mid-Elevation Grasslands in the Kamloops Area. Invited Keynote Presentation, Grasslands Conference. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops. June 3, 2016

Invited Panel, ANVILS workshop, hosted by University of Alberta, Edmonton, July 8-10.

2015. Secwpemc Cultural, Spiritual and Historical Presence in Mid-Elevation Grasslands near Kamloops, BC. Invited Lecture, Faculty of Science, Thompson Rivers University. December 3, 2015.

2015. Why First Nations Languages Matter. Invited Lecture, 間眅埶AV Presidents Lecture Series, 間眅埶AV Harbour Centre, December 2, 2015.

2015. Implementing First Nations Language Curriculum Frameworks
and Curricular Design. Invited 90 min. workshop, FNESC Language Conference, Vancouver, July 15-17, 2015.

2015. Ignace, Marianne, Lawrence Bell and Skil Jaadee White. Haida Language Bootcamp: How to Host an Intensive Language Program. Invited 90 min. workshop, FNESC Language Conference, Vancouver, July 2015.

2015. Ignace, Marianne et al. 2015. Marianne Ignace and Ronald Ignace. Yiri7 re Stsqeys-kucw: Secwepemc Indigenous Law in Connection to Oral History. Invited presentation, 間眅埶AV Indigenous Research Institute, Aboriginal Speaker Series Presentation, April 14, 2015.

2015. Invited Panelist: The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge. Learning at Intercultural Intersections. International Research Conference, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia. March 11-13, 2015.

2014. British Columbia and Yukon Indigenous Languages in the Twenty-First Century: Looking Back, Looking Forward. Invited Presentation, Jawarhalal Nehru University and 間眅埶AV Joint Linguistic Symposium. Delhi, India, December 7-11, 2014.

2014. First Nations Languages in the Twenty-First Century: Collaborative Research with Haida stories. Invited presentation, 間眅埶AV, Indigenous Research Institute. February 2014.

2012. Revitalization of Xaad Kil (Haida language). Invited presentation, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, June 9, 2009.

2011. Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace, Boundaries of the Secwepemc Nation. Invited presentation, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council Aboriginal Rights and Title workshop. Heffley Lake Indian Reserve. August 2011

2010. Secwepemc Food Plants: The Art of Working with Wild Plants for Sustainable Living. Keynote Address, Produce/produce Exhibition, Arnica Artist Run Centre and The Small Cities Community-University Research Alliance, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops BC.

2010. Ron Ignace and Marianne Ignace, Yiri7 re stsq'ey's-kucw: Secwepemc ancient stories and our traditional laws. Invited presentation, Indigenous Earth: Praxis and Transformations. Penticton, BC.

2007. Ron Ignace and Marianne Ignace. Secwepemc Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Encounters with Europeans, Presentation, Symposium - The Fraser River War: Conflict, Compromise and Consequences. A Symposium of Academics and First Nations people, organized by the New Pathways to Gold Society and Lytton First Nation, Sept. 22, 2007.

2007. Overview of the Social and Political Organization of the Secwepemc. Invited Presentation, Aboriginal Law Conference, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, Kamloops BC, February 1-2, 2007

2006. Aboriginal Languages and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Invited Presentation, Botany BC Forum, Squilax, BC, May 18, 2006

2005. Linguistic and Cultural Considerations of Language Restoration Work with British Columbia Indigenous Languages. Invited Presentation, International Symposium on the Worlds Indigenous Languages: Coming Together in Diversity. Organized by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan, August 9-11, 2005

Anthropological Expert Witness Reports and Cultural Impact Assessments

2016. Expert Witness Presentation on Stkemlupsemc Cultural Heritage Study regarding Ajax/KGHM proposed mining project. Environmental Assessment Review Panel Hearing, Kamloops, May 3, 2016.

2014. Ignace, Marianne, Dan Marshall, Michael Anderson and Celia Nord. Cultural Heritage Study, Proposed Ajax/KGHM Mine. A report prepared for Stkemlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation (SSN). Skeetchestn, BC. 232 pp. Presented to BC and Federal Environmental Assessment Review, May 2015.

2013. Expert Opinion on Secwepemc Language and Culture Loss for Residential Schools Day Scholars certified class action litigation. Cross-examined by Department of Justice, Canada.

2011. Ignace, Marianne and Ronald Ignace, 2011. Cultural Heritage Study: Highway 1 widening Monte Creek to Chase. Prepared for Neskonlith Indian Band.

2010. Ignace, Marianne, Ronald Ignace and Kenneth Favrholdt. Report on Secwepemc Land Use and Occupancy in and around the Seymour Arm Watershed of Shuswap Lake. Report prepared for the Sexq矇ltkemc Division of the Secwepemc Nation by Marianne Ignace and Ron Ignace.

2009. Canoe Creek Ethnobotany. A Cultural Heritage Study towards Electric Power development for the proposed Prosperity Mine through Canoe Creek Traditional Territory. With assistance from Lorna Billy and Tracy Ned, for Canoe Creek First Nation.

2006. Anthropological Expert Witness Report R. V. Deneault. Prepared for Coutlee and Company, Kamloops, 2006.

2000. Anthropological Expert Witness Report. R. v Deneault et al. and R. v. Lebourdais et al. Prepared for Crane Rush Guenther, Vancouver.Oct., 2000

2000. Report on Oral History Information from Skeetchestn Band Members, Six Mile area. Prepared for Skeetchestn Indian Band, Kamloops Indian Band and British Columbia Ministry of Lands, Parks and Environment. June 2000. This report led to a successful settlement of Skeetchestn and Kamloops Bands interest in the Six-Mile property (now Tobiano).

1997. Traditional Cultural Use Study of Robertson Creek Drainage. Report for B.C. Ministry of Forests, Kamloops District Office, and Bonaparte (Stuxtews) Indian Band, Cache Creek, B.C. 50 pp. plus maps and illustrations. January 1997.

1995. Anthropological Expert Witness Affidavit, Council of Haida Nation v. Ministry of Forests. Prepared for Sierra Legal Defense Fund and Council of the Haida Nation. 12 pp. This affidavit was instrumental to the Supreme Court of Canada Decision in Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests), 2004.

1995. Anthropological Expert Witness Report, Jules v. Harper. Prepared for Rush, Crane and Guenther, Barristers and Solicitors, and Kamloops Indian Band. 80 pp.

1994. Ethnobotanical Assessment of Maiden Creek Drainage Area. Prepared for Bonaparte Indian Band and Ainsworth Lumber Company, through Antiquus Archaeological Consulting. 40 pp.

Field Research and Applied Research

Since 1984 Ethnographic, ethnobotanical and linguistic field research with numerous bands of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation, including North Thompson, Skeetchestn, Bonaparte, Kamloops, Whispering Pines, Dog Creek, Canoe Creek, Alkali Lake, Adams Lake, Williams Lake, Soda Creek, and Neskonlith, focusing on traditional and on-going land use and occupancy, social/political organization, kinship, narrative and discourse, as well as Secwepemc language, and botanical and traditional ecological knowledge.
1990-to date Applied linguistic research and community support work towards language revitalization on Secwepemctsin (Shuswap) Upper Statimc (Lillooet) language, Smalgyax (Coast Tsimshian), Nuxalk, Heiltsuk, Haida, Southern Tutchone, Dakelh, Han.
1983-to date Continuing ethno-linguistic fieldwork on Haida texts and speeches in Vancouver and Massett (eliciting, transcription and translation of Haida language texts), as well as research and community support. work towards language revitalization (1999-to date)
1979-81 and to date Field research in Masset on Haida traditional social and political organization, symbolism, oral history, myth and language, endorsed by Old Massett Band Council. Since late 1998, I have particularly been engaged in research with surviving speakers of Massett Dialect of Haida, and have carried out a project on Northern Haida place names.
1977 Two months of field research towards M.A. degree on contemporary Haida socio-economic organization in Massett.

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