Dr. Bear is the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Association's 2019 recipient of the Distinguished Academic Early Career Award. 

The Faculty of Native Studies teamed up with renowned Métis artist and Edmonton's current Indigenous Artist in Residence, MJ Belcourt Moses to create an urban land-based learning course NS380 The Porcupine Goes to the City: Quillwork Teachings, Spring 2019. Beyond learning the steps of quilling, the course places the Nêhiyaw (Cree) and Otipemisiwak (Métis) concept of... Continue Reading →

The Faculty of Native Studies launches the UofA's first prison exchange program with the Edmonton Institution for Women. Click for details and application information.

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Aiyhiy to the panelists and guests!

Aiyhiy to everyone who participated!

After a busy year of workshops and research, the project team is looking forward to getting off campus and into communities to discuss practices of resilience. Throughout the year, we've learned so much from our students, staff, faculty, and knowledge keepers about how Indigenous bodies and minds navigate on and off-campus settler colonial spaces and... Continue Reading →

Tân’si! Launching the research portion of this project, is a survey that explores the questions: what does resilience look like for Indigenous women, youth, trans, and two-spirit? And how can those practices of resilience be used to end the crushing rates of violence towards those Indigenous communities?

*Recap* Indigenous Film Symposium feat. Thirza Cuthand and Danni Black. Feb 12th, 2018. University of Alberta.