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As scholars and practitioners in the higher education fields of internationalization (Beck) and Indigenous education (Pidgeon), and as colleagues in a Canadian Faculty of Education, we have observed how we are often set up in adversarial positions…

This keynote introduces an Indigenous paradigm of "witnessing" and "truth telling" to educators, researchers and students trained in Western methodologies. Its story-telling and videography format is intended to expose…

Deprivation Indices are tools of value to social service agencies planning for the effective delivery of community social programs. Social and economic factors are aggregated and mapped to determine which areas are more deprived. Deprivation differs…

Summary: The process of spearing salmon begins with the production of a special spear. The video goes on to demonstrate the method used by the Secwepemc people to spear fish.

Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws is a journey through the 10,000-year history of the Interior Plateau nation in British Columbia. Told through the lens of past and present Indigenous storytellers, this volume detail how a homeland has shaped…

Summary: Saskatoon berries have been a key food for centuries for the Secwepemc nation. The gathering and processing of this food is described by a Secwepemc elder.

In recent years higher education in the United States has been trending towards a discourse of "globalizing" our campuses and curriculum. As this trend continues, the role of Global Intercultural Education has rapidly grown with a focus on…

Summary: Deer meat remains a staple food in the diet of the Secwepemc people, but methods of preparation and preservation have changed.

As societies face unprecedented challenges that are global in scope and “wicked” in nature, the usual educational response has been to emphasize the need for more knowledge, better policies, and more compelling arguments, in order to effectively…

Technology has drawn our world closer, giving us tools to share words, texts, pictures and messages with little or no effort. However this unprecedented reach can also allow us to overstep, overshare and overwhelm—especially when the existing…

Dr. Graham Hingangaroa Smith welcomes attendees to the 2019 Learning at Intercultural Intersections Conference at Thompson Rivers University.

Rather than locating culture in a fixed place, like a gallery or a museum, this paper argues that it is to be found in the interstices. In astronomical terms, culture isn’t the stars: it is the ‘dark matter’ that binds and makes up most of our…

A growing body of scholarship identifies the ethical and political dilemmas of internationalization under the umbrella of critical internationalization studies. In this talk, I consider the possibilities and potential circularities involved in…