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Dr. Dana Lepofsky
WARREN GILL AWARD WINNER, 2017
SFU professor and archaeologist Dana Lepofsky鈥檚 commitment to research partnerships with First Nations communities has earned her SFU鈥檚 inaugural Warren Gill Award for Community Impact 2017.
She has spent more than two decades at SFU. Her teaching and research focus on the relationships of Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples to their environments, in the past and the present.
She was among the first archaeologists in the region to include First Nations communities as equal partners in research programs, leading to strengthened capacities in these communities for deciphering, appreciating, conserving, and educating future generations about their past.
Significantly, First Nations communities with which she has worked supported her nomination for the Gill award. They include the , the , the , and the .
First Nations community partners
Gitga鈥檃ta Nation
The are a part of the Tsimshian peoples, and have occupied the lands and waters around Txalgiuw (Hartley Bay), for millennia. Today, about 130 骋颈迟办鈥檃鈥檃迟补 live in Hartley Bay, with another 500 in Prince Rupert. Others in Terrace, Vancouver Island, and Vancouver, BC.
尝补虫驳补濒迟蝉鈥檃辫 (or 鈥淥ld Town鈥�) was the ancestral home and main winter village for the Gitga鈥檃t Nation, located in Kitkiata Inlet on the northwest side of Douglas Channel.
Heiltsuk Nation
encompasses 16,658 square kilometres of land, and extensive nearshore and offshore waters in an area that has only recently come to be known as the Central Coast of BC.
The goal in these landscape level projects, like with the CKP projects, is to bring together multiple voices to tell about the importance of these places.
Reawakening history
A new website re-awakens thousands of years of Heiltsuk Nation voices and history is the result of more than eight years of collaboration between the Heiltsuk people, 尤物视频, University of Victoria (UVic), the Hakai Institute, and producers from Greencoast Media.
Learn more at . Visit the site at .
鈥湵崦翰庑椴钩�: Our Voices our Land鈥� () uses video, photos and stories to present an engaging overview of Heiltsuk connections to 贬煤测虚补迟 (How-yaht), one of an immense network of culturally important landscapes in Heiltsuk territory on the Central Coast of British Columbia.
Click on the right to watch Dana Lepofsky's interview about her research work.