Originally posted: October 2014 For more than 35 years, the STUDY CANADA Summer Institute for K-12 Educators has been offered annually by the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University in collaboration with the Canadian Studies Center at the U.W. as part of our Title VI Pacific Northwest National Resource Center for the Study

Canadian Studies Center, October Report, 2014 In early June the College of Arts and Sciences awarded the Center and partners (see below) $40,000 for the proposed Mellon grant project, Comparative Intellectual Traditions: Indigenous and Western Worldviews in Area Studies to engage in an important cross-campus dialogue and expand on the foundation for the Arctic academic

This summer FLAS fellows Jason Young, a doctoral candidate in Geography, and Walter O’Toole, an English major and Arctic Studies minor, spent three weeks in Igoolik, Nunavut in Canada’s Arctic studying Inuktitut, the Inuit language, with Alexina Kublu, the former Language Commissioner for Nunavut. Walter O’Toole, Creative Writing (major) and Arctic Studies (minor), FLAS Fellow

Tim Pasch, FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut (2008), University of North Dakota, joining in a fishing derby in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut.

Originally posted: June 2014 Our first Corbett Fellow, Issac Stockdale, will spend next year studying at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. Isaac is currently a junior Political Science major with an Art History minor. Isaac has enjoyed his diverse experiences at UW and is excited to broaden his perspective through studying at

Michelle Daigle is Omushkegowuk Cree and a member of Constance Lake First Nation. She has an MA in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria and is currently a PhD candidate in the Geography department at the University of Washington. Her doctoral research focuses on food sovereignty for Anishinaabe people in what is now known

Originally posted: June 2014 La Famille Léger just released a brand-new album, L’Etoile du Nord, drawn from their research and travels. It’s chock full of French-Canadian music, mostly from Acadian sources. Louis Léger, the group’s patriarch, grew up in both Moncton, New Brunswick, and Québec City, so there are influences from Québec as well. La

Originally posted: Spring 2014 “….But we survived /so in every Country, every Province, every City/When they ask me/ Where I’m from/I tells ‘em/My Whole family tree/From the roots to the leaves/ Are Canadian history/We are The Black Scotians ” –Reed “Izreal” Jones. “The Black Scotians” in The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry (p.

Originally posted: February 2014 Michael Cawthra, a teacher associate of the K12-Study Canada Program, goes to Denver-area classrooms by telling stories that only captivate students but inform them about Canada. Dressed in costumes that change along with the renowned Canadian stories he tells, Michael relates the literature to the audience and brings the tales to life