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a:nƛʼən (Kwantlen), qicəy (Katzie), Semiahmoo, and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Peoples. Unceded means that this land was never surrendered, relinquished, or handed over in any way. We recognize that the unceded land that we occupy includes not only the SFU Burnaby campus, but extends to the land occupied by the Vancouver and Surrey campuses as well. TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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The measures taken during the second wave of COVID-19 — remote learning, social distancing, and mandated masks — showed that SFU is capable of providing effective education in a remote learning mode.
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I like to emphasize contemporary Indigenous art in my work so that we recognize that we’re still here and we’re still making it and we’re still living here, too. I guess my mission in this regard is just to make that present and to bring our voices back in that way.
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