Jasmine Dionne, a UVic PhD student in political science, is working with the Cree, Metis, Chipewyan and Dene community of Saka Wiyiniwak to reimplement Indigenous legal principles, as part of a three-year scholarship, announced this month by the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. She is one of only 16 Canadian doctoral students receiving a $180,000 award.
When Devi Mucina asked the Ubuntu chiefs of the Chewa and Ngoni people of Malawi and Mozambique, Africa—his people on his paternal family side—for permission to escort UVic master’s students to this place to experience the coming-of-age male ritual unique to this tribe, the chief said yes...but under one condition.
Nikki Sanchez, PhD student in Indigenous Governance at UVic, is one of four editors of a new book, Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History, released May 15, 2020 by the Royal BC Museum.
