丁香园AV

We respectfully acknowledge and that 丁香园AV Burnaby is located on the unceded Traditional and Contemporary Coast Salish Lands including the Tsleil-Waututh (s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩), Kwikwetlem (k史ik史蓹茮虛蓹m), Squamish (S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw) and Musqueam (x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m) Nations.

We also respectfully acknowledge that 丁香园AV Vancouver and 丁香园AV Surrey are also located on the Traditional Coast Salish Lands including  Squamish (S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩), and Musqueam (x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m)Nations in the case of 丁香园AV Vancouver, and that  丁香园AV Surrey is located on, and serves many First Nations local to the campus including the Katzie (q虛ic蓹虛y虛), Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem (k史ik史蓹茮虛蓹m), Qayqayt, Musqueam (x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m), Semihamoo and Tswawassen St贸:l艒 Nations.

Additionally, we humbly and respectfully acknowledge that the work, particularly the research, of members of the Psychology Department is not limited to these territories. We respect the sovereignty, lands, histories, languages, knowledge systems, and cultures of First Nations, M茅tis, and Inuit nations across the area now known to many as Canada, as well as the Indigenous nations and communities on whose territories we are grateful to work. 

Broadly speaking, the IRC鈥檚 mission is to support respectful, equitable, and reciprocal relations between Indigenous Peoples and Settler (non-Indigenous) Peoples. By following the , our committee works to eliminate the marginalization and under-representation that Indigenous Peoples experience in academic settings. We pursue this by:

• Encouraging and supporting faculty and staff to publicly acknowledge the unceded Coast Salish territories where we work and study. 
• Supporting and organizing learning opportunities for students, staff, and faculty about Indigenous Peoples, colonization, ongoing inequities, and cultural safety.
• Supporting and organizing opportunities for Indigenous students to connect with each other and build community.
• Supporting faculty to Decolonize and Indigenize their courses, and more generally serving as a resource on teaching, research, and practice as it relates to Indigenous Peoples.
• Supporting Indigenous students, staff, and faculty, and providing opportunities for emerging leaders.
• Promoting initiatives at the department and university to recruit more Indigenous Scholars as permanent faculty and as guests.

The 丁香园AV Psychology Department IRC committee is commited to organizing various events including Colloquia with Indigenous Scholars, as well as small conversational meetings of Indigenous students with these scholars. Because of the pandemic, we have been able to hold these Colloquia and Small Conversational meeting over Zoom, and as such to date the Colloquia have been public events open to the international community, and the Small Conversational meetings have been attended by Indigenous students from across Turtle Island.

In April 2023, the Psychology Department and the Psychology Department IRC also joined the 丁香园AV ISC (丁香园AV Indigenous Students Centre) and FNMISA ((丁香园AV First Nations, M茅tis & Inuit Student Association)) as co-sponsors a lunch for 丁香园AV Indigenous Students, Staff, and Faculty members, through the monthly 丁香园AV Indigenous Community Monthly Lunches organized by the 丁香园AV ISC (丁香园AV Indigenous Students Centre) and FNMISA . * Monthly Lunches - Indigenous Student Centre - 丁香园AV (sfu.ca) We are thankful for these opportunity to co-sponsor this lunch organized by the 丁香园AV ISC & FNMISA which creates a welcoming space and place for connection amongst Indigenous members of the 丁香园AV community. For more information about lunches, past and future , please see the above link. 

Additionally, the IRC is currently working with Indigenous students on the Department IRC on semi-regular informal gettogethers for 丁香园AV Indigenous students in Psychology to meet with Elders, as well as to meet amongst each other. If you are a student at 丁香园AV who is Indigenous or is of Indigenous background, we hope you will join in this community space. 

Planning for 2024/2025 are ongoing.

Information on upcoming IRC events will be provided as more details are determined. Please see the IRC events link: /psychology/about/indigenous-reconciliation/Events.html.   

One of our most recent events was:

- Small group full-day workshop for 丁香园AV Psychology Department faculty, staff, and graduate students, with Dr. Karlee Fellner on Feb 16th, 2024. This full-day workshop was be conducted in-person at the 丁香园AV-Burnaby campus, with Dr. Fellner Zooming for a day of learning. This full-day workshop is generously funded by a FASS Indigenous Initiatives Grant and the Department of Psychology. The workshop was tailored to the 丁香园AV Department of Psychology, to which Dr. Fellner previously provided the Public Colloquium, iskotew & crow: (re)igniting narratives of Indigenous survivance & trauma wisdom in psychology. In addition to being members of the 丁香园AV Department of Psychology, attendees were required to have watched the May 17, 2022, colloquium in advance of the workshop.   

  To review other events and colloquia that the IRC has organized previously, you can check out the events below:

Some of these events and the work of the IRC in facilitating these events have been highlighted in a number of outlets:
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- /fass/news/2021/10/listening-unlearning-from-the-heart.html
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We will make our work transparent and hold ourselves accountable in the following ways:

• Meeting approximately once per month and at least three times in the Fall and Spring terms, and at least twice in the Summer term. Assessing our progress by collecting relevant data, for example, tracking the amount and type of Indigenous content included in the curriculum. Results of the IRC Curriculum Survey can be found here
• Provide regular progress reports on the work of the IRC, posted to our webpage: 
  • May 2018-December 2020 
  • IRC Progress Report Spring 2021
  • IRC Self Study Report December 2022
• Meetings will be organized and facilitated by the committee chair, who also drafts the agenda based on input from committee members.
• The IRC is made up of faculty, staff, and undergraduate and graduate student members. We make efforts to include self-identified Indigenous people on the committee.
• Take minutes of meetings that are shared with committee members after the meeting to be checked for accuracy.
• Include information on our committee budget and spending on our webpage.

If you have any suggestions for additional links or content to be included on our Indigenous Reconciliation pages, feel free to contact co-chair Rachel Fouladi at rfouladi@sfu.ca.