• 1: HOME
  • 1.1: IGOV Overview
  • 1.3: IGOV Photo Gallery
  • 1.4: Events
• 2: PROGRAMS
  • 2.1: Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance
    • 2.1.1: Admissions
    • 2.1.2: Courses
    • 2.1.3: Fees and Student Funding
  • 2.2: PH.D
    • 2.2.1: Guidelines & Regulations
    • 2.2.2: Forms and Policies
    • 2.2.3: Fees
  • 2.3: Certificate in the Administration of Indigenous Governments
• 3: CURRENT STUDENTS
  • 3.1: Course Schedule
  • 3.2: Course Syllabi
  • 3.3: Forms
  • 3.4: Guidelines for Professional Conduct
  • 3.5: Completion and Graduation
• 4: WHO WE ARE
  • 4.1: Faculty
  • 4.2: Faculty Associates
  • 4.3: Staff
  • 4.4: Local Advisory Council
  • 4.5: Alumni
  • 4.6: Current Student Bios
• 5: RESEARCH
  • 5.1: Doctoral Research
  • 5.2: IGOV 599 Thesis
  • 5.3: IGOV 598 Community Governance Project
  • 5.4: IGOV Journal
  • 5.5: Related Links
• 6: COMMUNITY
  • 6.1: Canoe Project
  • 6.2: Oral History Project
  • 6.3: Cheam First Nation
  • 6.4: University Hawai'i-Manoa
• 7: CONTACT

Important dates, deadlines, announcements

For 2011-2012 Academic Year Important Dates, click here

For the Faculty of Graduate Studies Grading Scale, click here

 

Course Schedule

FIRST TERM: September to December
Course/Program	Instructor	Date	Time	Location
New Student Orientation New MAIG students are required to attend.	IGOV Faculty IGOV Staff	Wednesday Sept.7, 2011	10:00 am - 1:00 pm	University Club, Wild Rose Room
IGOV 520: Indigenous Governance	Dr. Taiaiake Alfred	Tuesdays Sept.06 to Nov.08, 2011 *No classes on Oct.11	10:00 am - 2:30 pm	HSD A250
IGOV 530: Indigenous Research Methods	Dr. Jeff Corntassel	Thursdays Sept.8 to Nov.17, 2011 *No classes on Oct.13 or Nov.10	10:00 am - 2:30 pm	HSD A250
IGOV 575: Mentorship	Each student will work with their respective Supervisors	*NOTE: The first MANDATORY Mentorship meeting is scheduled for Wed. Sept. 11, 2011	10:00 am - 12:00 pm	TBA
*No classes will be held during the week of October 11 (following Thanksgiving) or on November 9-11 (Reading Break)
SECOND TERM - January to April
Course/Program	Instructor	Date	Time	Location
IGOV 540: Indigenous Resurgence	Dr. Taiaiake Alfred	Tuesdays	10:00 am - 2:30 pm	HSD A250
IGOV 550: Indigenous People and Self Determination	Dr. Jeff Corntassel	Thursdays	10:00 am - 2:30 pm	HSD A250
IGOV 575: Mentorship	Each student will work with their Supervisor	Wednesdays	10:00 am-12:00 pm	TBA
IGOV 595:Restoring Kuleana	Dr. Taiaiake Alfred, Hokulani Aikau & Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua	March 19-30, 2012	TBA	Hawaii
*No classes will be held during the week of February 13th (Reading Break)
SUMMER SESSION - May-August
Course/Program	Instructor	Date	Time	Location
IGOV 570: Indigenous Women and Resistance	Waziyatawin	Monday-Friday May 7-18, 2012	10am-2pm	HSD A250

Who We are

Taiaiake Alfred
Professor

Taiaiake Alfred is from Kahnawá:ke in the Mohawk Nation. He is a full Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development, and has taught at UVic since 1994.

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Jeff Corntassel
Associate Professor

 Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee Nation), received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 1998, and is currently Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria

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Waziyatawin
Associate Professor

Waziyatawin is a Wahpetunwan Dakota from the Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village) in southwestern Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Cornell University in 2000 and earned tenure and an associate professorship in the history department at Arizona State University where she taught for seven years.

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Community Projects

SENCOTEN Canoe Project

Paddling in Partnership – The SENCOTEN Canoe Project

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Oral History Project

An Oral History of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples

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Our Alumni

Lyana Patrick
Carrier Nation/Stellat’en First Nation
B.A., Creative Writing (Co-op)/History, UVic

Research: Indigenous storytelling as a methodology; decolonizing filmmaking strategies with the goal of social and political regeneration.

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Read her Thesis paper on storytelling

Contact Information

Tel: 250-721-6438

Fax: 250-472-4724

Email: igov@uvic.ca (Program Assistant)

Indigenous Governance
University of Victoria
Faculty of Human and Social Development
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
Canada

Our Programs

Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance (MAIG)

The Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance (MAIG) is an interdisciplinary program focused on traditional structures and ways of governance and encompassing the values, perspectives, concepts, and principles of Indigenous political cultures. Through teaching and research that respects both western and Indigenous traditions, methods, and forms of knowledge, students are provided with a strong foundation of basic and applied scholarly research with an emphasis on the nature and context of Indigenous governance and Indigenous-State relations in Canada and internationally.

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PhD Degree by Special Arrangement

The Faculty of Graduate Studies along with the Indigenous Governance Program (IGOV) offers the selected opportunities for students to pursue a PhD degree by Special Arrangement. The Special Arrangement degree program is available for Indigenous Governance students, as the program does not currently offer a regular Ph.D. degree program. For more information about this program.

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Our FACULTY

IGOV is a part of the Faculty of Human and Social Development (HSD).

For more information on the faculty, see: http://www.hsd.uvic.ca/

To learn more about research in HSD, please click here.

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