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School of Indigenous Governance

Locally responsive. Indigenous centered. Globally recognized.

Canada’s leading school for the advancement of Indigenous knowledges, creativity and activism.

Our graduate programs

We support the training and education of future Indigenous leaders through innovative models of governance and nationhood. We draw inspiration from Indigenous ways of knowing and learning, community-based research practices, and intersectional, critical and Indigenous feminist approaches.

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Territory acknowledgement

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Xʷsepsəm/Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.