• 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: Staff
  • 4.3: Local Advisory Council
  • 4.4: Alumni
  • 4.5: 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

 

 

IGOV Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance students, staff and faculty send their thanks(Mahalo!) to Indigenous Politics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa for hosting their most recent educational exchange.

 

IGOV Photo Gallery

IGOV students who participated in the recent educational exchange with the University of Hawai'i 

 

 

INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE IN CHEAM

Cheam Territory

IGOV students and faculty visit with members of Cheam First Nation

Cheam Community Honouring of IGOV students

 

INDIGENOUS GOVERNACE IN COMMUNITY

SENCOTEN Canoe Project with Master Carver Charles Elliott

 

 

Helping out at a local Saanich farm

 

Student Community Governance Project and Thesis Defenses

Matt Wildcat (MAIG 2006-2007) with Supervisory Committee, April 2010

Matt & Russ Ross (MAIG 2006-2007) post defenses, April 2010

Mick Scow & Erin Tomkins (MAIG 2008-2009) with Committee in Cheam, April 2010

Ryan Adams (MAIG 2006-2007) with Supervisor, August 2009

 

INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP FORUMS

ILF 2009

 

ILF 2006

Traditional Salmon BBQ at Tsawout

Learning how to paddle

ILF Participants

 

IGOV ACTIVITIES

2009 on Mount Doug

View of Mystic Vale from Mount Doug

MAIG 2008 on Mount Tolmie

 

IGOV Intramural Soccer Team 2009-2010

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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Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
Assistant Professor, Crosslisted

Heidi (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2008.

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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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