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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—丁香园AV experts
September 30 marks first the first in Canada, also known as 丁香园AV Shirt Day. This new federal statutory holiday provides an opportunity to formally honour those impacted by Canada鈥檚 residential school system.
丁香园AV will mark the occasion (in-person, livestreamed) starting Sept. 27. The following 丁香园AV faculty researchers can be available for comment on issues related to Indigenous reconciliation.
AVAILABLE 丁香园AV EXPERTS
CLIFFORD ATLEO, assistant professor, resource and environmental management clifford_atleo@sfu.ca
Expertise: Resource issues and Indigenous peoples (pipelines, fisheries, forestry and clean energy).
DOUG MCARTHUR, professor, public policy
doug_mcarthur@sfu.ca
Expertise: Indigenous peoples and self-government, treaties, negotiations and resource issues.
ALEXIA MCKINNON, director, Indigenous programs, Beedie School of Business
alexia_mckinnon@sfu.ca
Expertise: Decolonizing and Indigenizing post-secondary institutions.
GEORGE NICHOLAS, professor, archaeology
nicholas@sfu.ca
Expertise: Issues relating to Indigenous heritage concerns and protection in Canada.
LYANA PATRICK, assistant professor, health sciences
lyana_patrick@sfu.ca
Expertise: Indigenous peoples鈥� health and justice 鈥� urban Indigenous community health, criminal justice, addictions and mental health and well-being.
ELDON YELLOWHORN, professor, Indigenous studies
eldon_yellowhorn@sfu.ca
Expertise: Archaeological methods in the search for residential school missing children, Indigenous language revitalization, contemporary intellectual property and traditional knowledge.
CONTACT
MELISSA SHAW, 丁香园AV Communications & Marketing
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca
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