• Walking-With Wellness: Understanding Intersections of Indigenous Literacy and Health Through Podcasting 

  Toorenburgh, Lydia (2023-01-30)

  Have you ever seen a doctor and been sent home with forms and pamphlets to read and fill out? Reading and writing in English is a key skill for patients to access quality health care in Canada. Recent research demonstrates ...
• Legal Entanglements in Place: Hul'q'umi'num' law, provincial jurisdiction and the protection of Hw'teshutsun, a Hul'q'umi'num' cultural landscape 

  Argan, Jennifer (2022-12-09)

  In 2001, Cowichan Tribes successfully negotiated the protection of an important cultural landscape, preventing imminent logging and development through a treaty-related measures (TRM) agreement with British Columbia (BC), ...
• Ethno-Graphic Gatherings of Nonbinary Visual Narratives on TikTok 

  Costain, Raey (2022-09-07)

  This thesis is an exploration in graphic anthropology alongside a digital community of nonbinary people on the social media app, TikTok. Nonbinary visuality is a complicated and still poorly understood set of experiences ...
• Learning at Ye'yumnuts in Reflections 

  Martindale, Ella (2022-09-02)

  This document represents a holistic account of two years’ work thinking about place-based learning at Ye’yumnuts from a Quw’utsun Mustimuhw perspective. In acknowledging individual and collective responsibility, and ...
• ‘In the Flesh’: Skeletal Embodiment and Subjectivities in Practice 

  Campeau-Bouthillier, Cassandre (2022-08-23)

  This dissertation presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study among individuals who practice yoga and/or chiropractic care in Victoria, British Columbia, focusing on their experiences of their musculoskeletal ...
• Climbing as a possible selective pressure shaping the human gluteus maximus: An investigation using musculoskeletal modeling and electromyography 

  Dias, Rae (2022-08-19)

  Differences between humans and extant apes in the pelvis and its key muscle attachment sites are thought to reflect a trade-off between arboreal and bipedal locomotor abilities. Human pelvic morphology enables the ...
• The Influence of Feng Shui on Cemetery Design: A Spatial Analysis of the Chinese Cemetery in Victoria, BC 

  Dagg, Lyndsay (2022-07-18)

  The Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point in Victoria, BC is the oldest Chinese Cemetery in Canada and has been recognized as a National Historic Site since 1994. However, despite the cemetery’s huge cultural and historic ...
• Charitable and Community Food Access in Greater Victoria: Understanding the Lived Experience of Mothers and Caregivers 

  Strom Trudel, Katherine (2022-07-18)

  Food insecurity affects 9.6% of Canadians, meaning that individuals and families are unable to access or consume a sufficient or adequate diet quality in socially acceptable ways. Previous research has shown that in Canada, ...
• Middle Helladic Children’s Burials: Challenges Associated with Reconstructing Lived Experiences from Mortuary Contexts 

  Martin-Damman, Sally (2022-07-18)

  While the sub-field of childhood archaeology continues to grow and make progress, the children of Greece during the Middle Helladic period (2,100-1,600 B.C.) remain understudied. The goal of this research was to use mortuary ...
• A search for meaningful place: Lifestyle migrations and mobilities in Tofino, British Columbia 

  Mara, Gabriel (2022-07-18)

  This paper focuses on the social phenomenon of lifestyle migration in connection to individuals living in Tofino, British Columbia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Tofino, this paper asks the question of how ...
• Exploring Intertidal Stone Elements at ȾEL ̧IȽĆE/ c̓əl̓íɫč 

  Hooton, Rachel (2022-07-18)

  W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən First Nations territories span throughout the southern part of Vancouver Island, where their connection to space and place has never diminished. Significant places throughout the landscape of their ...
• Indigenous archaeological fisheries records provide evidence of multiple baselines in the northeast Pacific 

  Hillis, Dylan (2022-04-29)

  It is well recognized that humans have had a significant role in transforming terrestrial landscapes, yet comparatively little research has examined the long-term impacts of humans on marine ecosystems. As an applied field ...
• wałšiʔałin ʔuuʔaałuk̓i ḥaḥuułi: Coming home to take care of the territory: a project of (re)connecting with traditional lands, waters, knowledge, and identity 

  Happynook, Tommy (2022-04-29)

  Written from a nuučaan̓uł perspective this dissertation documents the reclamation of knowledge, teachings, culture, language, responsibilities, and identity through my personal (re)connection to my family’s ḥaḥuułi and ...
• La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) and La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana (CONFENIAE) online and on-the-ground: representational choices and Indigenous media sovereignty 

  Hagestedt, Elizabeth (2021-09-28)

  The development of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has influenced all aspects of communication and representation, altering the ways in which humans interact on a daily basis. Within politics and ...
• Weaving threads and painting bodies: Huasteca women, clothing, and embodiment during the Late Classic to Postclassic 

  Sanchez Balderas, Adriana Fabiola (2021-09-27)

  This is an emerging analysis of the use of a cape type garment, the dhayemlaab in the Teenek language, also known as the quexquemitl in Nahuatl language, among modern Huasteca women as an analogy to an illustrative group ...
• Handheld Mobile LiDAR: Investigating its Viability as a Mapping Tool for Improving the Archaeological Mapping Process 

  Holshuijsen, Folkert (2021-06-13)

  Archaeological maps are central to the archaeological process; however, issues regarding their perception and representation are undertheorized and have direct effects on the archaeological outcomes. Mapping technologies ...
• The Influence of Developmental Parameters on Body Size and Composition: An Analysis of Sex Differences in Life History Trajectories 

  Morpak, Danika (2021-06-13)

  Previous research has indicated that markers of early life development (birth weight, age at first menstruation (menarche), and relative leg length) are predictors of adult body size and composition (adiposity and lean ...
• Museums in British Columbia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Continuing to Engage the Public Online 

  Gribbon, Eva (2021-06-13)

  The COVID-19 pandemic forced British Columbia museums to close to the public for a period of time in 2020. As traditional museum engagement takes place in person at museums, many B.C. museums transferred some engagement ...
• Fisheries at a new scale: the contributions of archaeological fish scales in understanding Indigenous fisheries in Wuikinuxv First Nation territory and beyond 

  Ball, Alyssa Megan (2021-06-02)

  Archaeological fisheries information represented in fish scales provides relative abundance and age-at-harvest data that can assist in understanding a range of culturally vital Indigenous fisheries. In this thesis, I ...
• The Japanese communities of Cumberland, British Columbia 1885-1942: portrait of a past 

  Thomas, Cheryl Maeva (2021-06-01)

  This study is about a group of Japanese immigrants and their families who lived in Cumberland, a coal mining centre on Vancouver Island, during the first four decades of this century. Specifically, it is about a Japanese ...

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