This is an annual report of the work of Simon Fraser University and the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society.
"Ten years ago we began this venture in the former girl's dorm of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. We began with a couple of courses in sociology and anthropology, a few tables, chairs and a blackboard, most of all, what we started with was a lot of guts. On the part of Ron, Rita Jack, Gerald Etienne, Rick and other SCES board members, and myself, it was a vision to provide education to aboriginal people of the Interior and the courage to start and worry about money later. On the part of our 1st generation of students, it took courage to take courses in a brand new institute that was in this all too familiar place where they themselves or their mothers had slept. However, the name of SFU behind it all perhaps helped, or must have had something to offer for the students that came."
