• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Welcome back to caveman times: social consequences of (mis)representations of the Paleolithic 

  Hendrick, Jenna (2021-04-30)

  Among the American population, there is a general misunderstanding of human evolution and human life in the Paleolithic. Beyond the mechanics of biological evolution, there is confusion over what sorts of modern-day behaviors ...
• Hominin survival and lithic procurement strategies at a Pleistocene desert refugium during periods of environmental stress: a case study from Shishan Marsh 1 in the Azraq Basin, Jordan 

  Beller, Jeremy A. (2021-01-11)

  A century of intermittent archaeological research in the Azraq Basin of the eastern desert of Jordan has demonstrated that a long period of hominin occupation exists in this environmentally inhospitable region during the ...
• Indigenous and Parks Canada Agency perspectives on the management of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve 

  Fitzsimmons, Andrew (2021-01-06)

  In the Gulf Islands and Salish Sea Regions of British Columbia the Parks Canada Agency (PCA) currently operates Gulf Islands National Park Reserve (GINPR) and is in the development phase for the proposed Southern Strait ...
• Looking beyond face value: neoliberal practices in a cleft lip and palate NGO 

  Ho, Hilary (2020-09-30)

  There has been a rise non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as part of a global health system that seeks to treat children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) in resource-poor countries. As a craniofacial abnormality, CLP ...
• Caring for lhuq'us (pyropia spp.): mapping and remote sensing of Hul'qumi'num culturally important seaweeds in the Salish Sea 

  Baker, Jack (2020-09-25)

  Hul’qumi’num communities on south eastern Vancouver Island have concerns about the status and safety of marine foods potentially impacted by environmental change and the urbanization and industrialization of their territories. ...
• Meaningful consultation, meaningful participants and meaning making: Inuvialuit perspectives on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and the climate crisis 

  Pokiak, Letitia (2020-09-21)

  This Inuvialuit ‘story’ revolves around the Inuvialuit uprising and resurgence against government and industrial encroachment, and the self determination efforts to regain sovereignty of traditional territories. This ...
• Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments, archaeology, and indicators of a glacial refugium on northern Vancouver Island, Canada 

  Hebda, Christopher Franklin George (2019-12-24)

  Recent research has revealed human settlement on the Pacific coast of Canada extending back nearly 14,000 years, but much of the late Pleistocene record is unknown due to shifting sea levels, poor understanding of Cordilleran ...
• Ts’a7inwa (gooseneck barnacles) as a proxy for archaeological efforts to understand shellfish as food in Nuu-chah-nulth territories 

  Efford, Meaghan Karyn (2019-10-03)

  This thesis examines the comparative abundance of shellfish from archaeological assemblages on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu-chah-nulth territories. Eighteen sites spanning the Nuu-chah-nulth region emphasize ...
• Learning to teach: Teaching assistants (TAs) learning in the workplace 

  Korpan, Cynthia Joanne (2019-09-19)

  Through an exploratory qualitative, interpretive frame that employed an ethnographic methodological approach, this research focuses on teaching assistants (TAs) teaching in a lab, tutorial, or discussion group. Nine TAs ...
• The Salt Spring dollar: toward a re-embedded economy 

  Cowan, Maya (2019-05-01)

  The Salt Spring dollar is a community currency founded Salt Spring Island, a Gulf Islands community located in the Salish Sea between Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. Currency use in 2018, nearly two decades ...
• Difficult and deadly deliveries?: Investigating the presence of an ‘obstetrical dilemma’ in medieval England through examining health and its effects on the bony human pelvis 

  Lamoureux, Thea Monique (2019-04-30)

  Difficult human childbirth is often explained to be the outcome of long term evolutionary hanges in the genus Homo resulting in an‘obstetrical dilemma,’defined as the compromise between the need for a large pelvis in ...
• Tracing Ice age artistic communities: 3D modeling finger flutings in the Franco-Cantabrian 

  Huang, Hsin-yee Cindy (2019-01-09)

  Finger flutings are lines and markings drawn with the human hand in soft cave sediment in caves and rock shelters throughout southern Australia, New Guinea and southwestern Europe, dating back to the Late Pleistocene. ...
• Coast Salish artist Douglas LaFortune: deconstructing Euro-settler narratives of Indigenous artistic practice and investigating active cultural practice through collaborative witnessing 

  Drummond, Justine Auben (2019-01-02)

  Douglas (Doug) LaFortune is a Coast Salish Master Carver and Graphic Artist of both Quw’utsun’ (Cowichan) and Tsawout, WSÁNEĆ (Saanich) heritage, with an artistic career spanning over four decades (City of Duncan 2013:2,6,21,28; ...
• Human-material interaction in the Aurignacian of Europe, 35,000-27,000 BP: an analysis of marine shell ornament distribution 

  Rogers, Lisa (2018-12-14)

  The Aurignacian period (35,000-27,000 BP) is the earliest phase of human occupation in the European Upper Paleolithic. As early inhabitants moved across the landscape they came into contact with others and left behind ...
• Understanding entrepreneurship: a definition and model based on economic activity and the pursuit of self-identity 

  McKenzie, Brian Bruce (2018-11-23)

  Entrepreneurship is a growing and important field of practice. Research in the field of entrepreneurship has been hampered by the lack of a clear paradigm of research and a common definition of the topic. This study reports ...

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