Cheryl started following the work of Rebecca Jules, University of Regina, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy.
Cheryl started following the work of Andrea Hilland, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law.
Cheryl started following the work of Charles Horn, University of Victoria, Political Science.
- Cultural Studies, Visual Anthropology, Practice Theory, Urban Indigenous Studies
- Sociology and Anthropology
Cheryl I'm getting ready for my last few interviews which will be with Elders I'm really interested in what they will have to say regarding Aboriginality and the city.
Graduate Student, Sociology and Anthropology
Thesis Title: “Community is Where I Find It”: Place-Making, Culture, and Identity Among Urban Aboriginal People in Ottawa, Ontario
About
Cheryl is Secwepemc from the Simpcw First Nation in British Columbia. She lives in Ottawa with her husband and two beautiful girls. She is always busy with the family, school, work, yoga, getting outside, video, and blogging. Cheryl’s extended family Jerry Jack the Hereditary Chief of the Mowachaht gifted her with the name Nee-Pa-Too-Tl, which means pillar of the family or strength of the family (the centre beam in a long house).
All thoughts and opinions expressed in this blog are Cheryl's and do not reflect the view of any organization or group.
She is passionate about ensuring the involvement of Aboriginal people in decision-making, policy and research in Canada. She was appointed by the Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians of INAC to develop an Aboriginal Policy Research Network (currently on leave). Prior to that she was the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Native Policy and Research in Vancouver, BC. She has 15 years of experience working in the Aboriginal community in both on and off reserve contexts with organizations such as the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, Urban Native Youth Association, BC Assembly of First Nations, and the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council. She started a consulting company in 1999 for research, policy analysis, facilitation and project management.
She is currently a third year doctoral student in Anthropology at Carleton University. Her PhD research is a video ethnography focused on culture, identity and place of urban Aboriginal people in Ottawa. She has a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Simon Fraser University and an MA in Leadership and Training from Royal Roads University.
She has served on many Boards of Directors including President of Urban Native Youth Association, a Founding Member of the Assembly of First Nations National Youth Council, President of the First Nations Student Association of Thompson Rivers University, Aboriginal Education Project of the BC Human Rights Commission, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office.
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