The Work Ahead

Guiding the future work of Colonial Injustices and Current Realities: UVic Research Collective will be two key priorities.

The first priority revolves around parallel commitments to continue to visit with interested Elders from səlxʷéyn sqʷél | SELW̱ÁN SḰÁL | Elders' Voices, a program hosted through the Office of Indigenous Academic and Community Engagement; and, in consultation with the Office of the Vice President Indigenous (OVPI), Director of Culture and Protocol, to continue in relational research engagement with Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples at Songhees First Nation and Esquimalt First Nation.

The second priority is to continue working with Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC) to digitally animate a story of the lands and human relationships with the lands that UVic now calls its campus. While Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples share stories about their relationships with these lands and waters, which is also noted in UVic’s territorial acknowledgement, and other researchers including faculty and students have contributed to amplifying this history, Colonial Injustices and Current Realities: UVic anticipates including our research on how property ownership deepened this colonial dispossession.

Finally, regardless of funding, efforts to formally publish on this research will be made.