• 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

Staff

Academic Administrative Officer

Angela Polifroni is a settler of Italian and French (Canadian) descent who has been a visitor, living and working in the territories of the Coast Salish and Straits Salish peoples since 1994. Angela is an alum of the Indigenous Governance MA program and  holds a BA in Political Science. She is interested in all dimensions of respectfully transforming colonial relations.  

 

 

PROGRAM ASSISTANT

Mick Scow is from the Kwakwaka'wakw and Snuneymuxw nations, proudly representing the Scow and Good families, respectively. He holds a BA in political science as well as an MA in Indigenous Governance. Mick is focused on rooting himself here, on Wsanec and Lekwungen territories, by establishing and maintaining relations with the land and its original peoples. He is also fond of fishing and ball hockey.

 

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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