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For Indigenous Peoples
SFU is committed to providing a supportive academic and community environment for all Aboriginal Peoples.
Looking Forward... Indigenous Pathways To and Through Simon Fraser University is a comprehensive review and set of recommendations for pathways for Indigenous students to and through SFU.
Support Services
In addition to the general services offered through Student Services and the Student Learning Commons, we offer the following supports to Aboriginal students or those looking for resources for Aboriginal Peoples:
Admission
There are a number of pathways for Indigenous students to learn.
Questions?
Office for Aboriginal Peoples
+1 778 782 8925
Indigenous Student Centre (ISC)
+1 778 782 6929
Indigenous Recruitment co-ordinator
+1 778 782 5428
Programs and Courses
We offer a wide range of comprehensive learning programs spanning several faculties and areas, all taking place on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
Indigenous Studies
Offering progressive, diverse learning experiences rooted in both traditional and contemporary teachings.
Beedie School of Business
Weaving together traditional Indigenous knowledge and executive business education.
Faculty of Education
Committed to collaborative work with diverse Indigenous communities, organizations, students and educators in a range of rural and urban locations.
Continuing Studies
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”― Albert Einstein
Supporting you along your lifelong learning journey.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Helping Indigenous learners transition to undergraduate studies through courses that integrate humanities and social sciences with Indigenous perspectives.
Financial Assistance
SFU assists Canadian Aboriginal students with a range of scholarships and awards, bursaries, work-study programs and student loans.
Awards for undergraduate students
SFU offers multiple annual awards for Indigenous undergrad students
Awards for graduate students
Awards and scholarships exclusively for Indigenous graduate students.
Research Institutes and Facilities
Creating new knowledge by connecting through community, creativity and moving beyond, and along, tradition.
Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health
Founded by an SFU professor, the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Institute of Indigenous Peoples’ Health advances a national health research agenda to improve the health of Indigenous peoples.
Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
Dig into research and artifact exhibits from around the world right at Burnaby campus. Featuring exhibits created by Department of Archaeology students and collections from excavations and research by faculty, staff and students.
Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies
Through digital technologies and new media we encourage community and academic conversations regarding the visual culture of Northwest Coast First Nations and document their depth and richness.
Indigenous Research Institute
Gathering together the expertise of Indigenous individuals, groups and organizations with the academic community, to engage in meaningful symbiotic work.
Simon Fraser University respectfully acknowledges the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples on whose unceded traditional territories our three campuses reside.