TRC Programs

Dental Student Association has raised funds at their annual charity ball to support the Access for All program.

The School has appointed five northern Indigenous adjunct professors (non-faculty instructors) from Northwest Territories and four elders and knowledge keepers to our newly-established Elders and Knowledge Keepers program.

The School has appointed five northern Indigenous adjunct professors (non-faculty instructors) from Northwest Territories and four elders and knowledge keepers to our newly-established Elders and Knowledge Keepers program.

The Faculty of Nursing placed students with Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society and Maskwacis Health Services in the undergraduate program. In the graduate program, a Nurse Practitioner (NP) student was placed with Maskwacis Health Services in the winter 2022 term, and we are exploring several other Indigenous-focused placements for NP students.

Augustana's Workshops in Building Capacity for Reconciliation [20] is a certificate program, open to Augustana students, staff and faculty, as well as members of the larger Camrose and U of A communities who want to learn more about the Indigenous peoples of Canada.

Two faculty members participated with the Canadian Association of Student Nurses Task Force on Cultural Competency and Cultural Safety on a document to increase the integration of Indigenous knowledge aligned with the cultural safety framework for faculty and students.

CILLDI, pronounced 'sill-dee', is the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. Hosted at the University of Alberta, the Institute is dedicated to the revitalization of Indigenous languages through documentation, teaching, and literacy.

There is community input into a clerkship education training pilot that involves clerkship rotations in First Nations communities and emphasizes Indigenous health experiential learning opportunities.

St. Joseph's College is reaching out to partners in Native Studies and U of A to be a co-sponsor on new sources of funding and to support their research through that funding (forthcoming).

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant application entitled Combating Racism towards Indigenous Peoples through the Integration of Indigenous Perspectives in the Classroom: Bachelor of Education Programs and Schools Working Together - Dr. Eva Lemaire, co-researcher.

Community Partnership Agreements - The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and the Wâpanachekos Indigenous Health Program (WIHP) continue to strengthen partnerships in Indigenous Health with Alberta Health Services, the Métis Nation of Alberta, Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta and the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations.

St. Joseph's College held an art exhibit during the papal visit with 17 prints of the Creator’s Sacrifice Collection.

A variety of Cree language instruction courses are offered in the Bachelor of Arts in Native Studies program.

As part of the ongoing improvement of the undergraduate curriculum the teams are working to

As part of the renewal of the Faculties of Arts and Science programs, the group working on the renewal is working on how to “decolonize” the curriculum.

Doctoral of Dental Surgery (DDS4) elective students participate in a dental public health elective that provides services in reserve communities.

The Indigenous admissions process was extended to include Dentistry and Dental Hygiene Programs.

Reserved Seats: Six Faculty of Nursing seats are designated to Indigenous students; there are plans to formally increase this number in the coming year (2023).

Developing collections to support First Nations, Métis and Inuit curricular needs, Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI) and Faculty of Education certificate programs related to Indigenous languages (ongoing).

Dr. Cindy Gaudet has been invited to contribute with Parks Canada, Métis Nation of Alberta and Métis Nation of Saskatchewan, and Rupertsland Institute to advance Métis peoples’ knowledge systems (language) as part of their respective approaches to reconciliation.

Dr. Keavy Martin leads a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - funded research project, Creative Conciliation, which explores how Indigenous arts and arts-based research can fruitfully contribute to reconciliation.

Dr. Rebecca Macias Gimenez researches the intersection between Aboriginal Law, Indigenous peoples and Indigenous Law, and Environmental Law, particularly in British Columbia.

All Faculty of Education students take EDU 211: Aboriginal Education and Contexts for Professional and Personal Engagement.

Education for Reconciliation and Teacher Training - Dr. Eva Lemaire, Principal Investigator, Innovation Funds (2019- 2021).