Above: Alanis Obomsawin, center, led a special master’s class on documentary filmmaking at the UW. The event was cosponsored by the Native Voices Program. Daniel Hart, Chair/Director, Canadian Studies (front left), and Luana Ross (second row, far right), co-directors of the Native Voices Program, facilitated the workshop. Photo by Noreen Thiele. By Clementine Bordeaux Clementine

Dr Rob Williams is a researcher in UBC’s Marine Mammal Research Unit who conducts applied conservation research projects on a number of marine mammal populations around the world. He completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, with an emphasis on cost-effective cetacean research projects, such as small-boat or platform-of-opportunity surveys. His MSc

Above: Angelo Baca at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula, Montana with Chris Eyre, Director of Smoke Signals. Photo by Bob McGowan. This past February, Native American filmmakers converged on Missoula, Montana to attend the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Angelo Baca, a graduate of the UW Native Voices Program, was there to

Above: Greg Robinson, History, l’Université du Québec à Montréal, and Masako Iino, Professor and President of Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan, spoke about Japanese confinement in Canada during World War II at this year’s Day of Remembrance Program. Photo by Shihou Sasaki, The North American Post. Scholars of Executive Order 9066 and the incarceration of Japanese

Morna McEachern (fourth from left) successfully defended her dissertation, “Is Knowledge Power?: A Textual, Historical and Practical Study of ‘Sex Ed’ Policy and ‘Teen Pregnancy’ in Canada and the United States” in May. From left to right: Nancy Beadie, College of Education, Leadership and Policy; Amelia Gay, Social Work; Susan Kemp, Social Work; Morna McEachern, Social Work;

In late April Dr. Shawn Wilson, author of Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods (2008), visited the UW where he visited and spoke in classes and served as the keynote speaker for the annual Native American Studies in Advanced Academia.

Don Chapman (center), effectively changed Canadian legislation in Canada enabling members of the UW community including Robert Stacey, Division Dean, Arts and Humanities and Linda DiBiase, Collections Development Librarian, to obtain their Canadian citizenship. Don was a guest of Canadian Studies in April providing a roundtable discussion on “The Lost Canadian” legislation.

Anne Goodchild, affiliated faculty in Civil and Environmental Engineering, presented the paper, “Near Border Operations and Logistical Efficiency: Implications for Policy Makers,” written with UW graduate student, Matt Klein, at the Seminar on Canada-U.S. Border Management Policy Issues sponsored by the Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University and hosted by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for

This Spring Regional Conference offered a workshop on First Nations languages entitled, “Curriculum Design, Activities and Demonstrations from a Less Commonly Taught Language.” Makah (Wakashan Language Family) is a language isolated in the U.S., but connects with First Nations languages in B.C., Canada.

The Center was a co-sponsor of this year’s WAFLT conference featuring a keynote speech by Yanick Godbout, Québec Government Office, Los Angeles and a talk by Natalie Debray, UW Communication, “How French are the French Canadians: Using History to Understand the Unique Language and Cultural Diversity in Québec.”