The UFV Library is celebrating the gift of a Red River Cart from the Chilliwack M\u00e9tis Association for the Chilliwack library\u2019s display on M\u00e9tis culture and history.<\/p>\n
The display began with a vision from Shirley Hardman, UFV\u2019s Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs; a backdrop of road allowance poverty, a silhouette of M\u00e9tis leader Louis Riel, a dirt road, rocks in a ditch, a M\u00e9tis sash, a baby in a cradleboard strapped to a red river cart piled high with sacks of supplies. It\u2019s a story of the Road Allowance people, of the leader who was executed for defending M\u00e9tis rights, it\u2019s a story of struggle, a story of people kicked off their land and forced to the margins, and a story of Indigenous Canadians on their path to governance. This is the story that the Chilliwack library is depicting in our display cabinet, in book displays in the library, and in partnership with the Indigenous Student Centre, the Indigenous Affairs office, UFV faculty, the Chilliwack M\u00e9tis Association, and in the end, also with the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company.<\/p>\n
This story embodies UFV Library\u2019s goals to decolonize and Indigenize, our values of inclusivity and collaboration, and our mandate to build respectful relations with Indigenous communities and with our communities inside and outside the institution. In this display, we\u2019re looking back to the history but also forward to the future. We\u2019re learning together and exploring what Indigenization and decolonization look like as the library supports the university\u2019s programming in Indigenous Peoples Knowledge, the Halq’em\u00e9ylem language, M\u00e9tis social work, career preparation for Indigenous students, and academic success cohort for Indigenous students.<\/p>\n
For more information, contact Lisa Morry at lisa.morry@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 10\/22\/2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UFV Library is celebrating the gift of a Red River Cart from the Chilliwack M\u00e9tis Association for the Chilliwack library\u2019s display on M\u00e9tis culture and history. The display began with a vision from Shirley Hardman, UFV\u2019s Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs; a backdrop of road allowance poverty, a silhouette of M\u00e9tis leader Louis Riel, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20532\/revisions\/20612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}