Traditional Opening and Territorial Welcome

Speaker: 
Victor Guerin
Event: 
Working Better Together Conference
Date: 
February 19, 2015

Song copyright © 2015 by Victor Guerin

In this presentation, Victor Guerin, Musqueam First Nation, provides a Traditional Opening and Territorial Welcome as part of the Opening Ceremony for the Working Better Together Conference on Indigenous Research Ethics that took place February 18-20th, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The conference brought together 80 community-engaged academic and community researchers, educators, practitioners, policy analysts and research administrators from across Canada to explore what it really means – and what it takes – to work collaboratively in Indigenous research.

The event was organized by the Intellectual Property in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) project based at 51ÉçÇøºÚÁÏ and co-sponsored by the and the at the University of Victoria, and the . Major funding was provided through an Impact (Partnership) Award to the IPinCH project from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSRHC).

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