Alumni
Highlighting and celebrating the accomplishments of our amazing alumni.
2022 Graduates
Graduate
Linguistics in a First Nations Language
Special Arrangement Cohorts
Fall 2022
- MA Project - Victoria Mckoy
"Conversational Shmˈalgyack (Sm’algyax) Audio Glossary"
Undergraduate
Spring 2022
- BA - Danielle Ignace, Minor in Indigenous Languages; Sociology; and Certificate in Indigenous Language Proficiency
- Certificate in Indigenous Language Proficiency (68 graduands)
Fall 2022
- Certificate in Indigenous Language Proficiency (21 graduands)
- 10 Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Snichim graduates and 11 Haíɫzaqvḷa graduates
2021 Graduates
Convocation Stories
- Donna M. Modeste is the first recipient of the new Minor in Indigenous Languages in her BA degree.
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Graduate
Linguistics in a First Nations Language
Special Arrangement Cohorts
Spring 2021
- MA Project - Luke Marston
"Xu’athun stl’q’een’: Hwulmuhw perspectives on art and language"
Fall 2021
- MA Project - Evangeline Guerin
"tsetsul'ulhtun' mustimuhw: Hul'q'umi'num' stories from our fishing life" - MA Project - Tara Morris (Thorne)
"Suwsiw: Hul'q'umi'num' stories of land and sea" - MA Project - Marlene Tommy
"Connecting generations through hwulmuhwqun stories"
Undergraduate
- BA - Donna M. Modeste
Double Minor in Indigenous Languages and Extended Minor in Linguistics (Spring 2021) - Diploma in Indigenous Language Proficiency (2 graduands)
- Certificate in Indigenous Language Proficiency (10 graduands)
2020 Graduates
Convocation Stories
Graduate
Linguistics in a First Nations Language
(Special Arrangement Cohorts)
Spring 2020:
- MA Project - Gina Salazar
"Angry Raven and friends: Three new stories for Hul'q'umi'num' language learners."
Summer 2020:
- MA Project - Victor Guerin (August 26, 2020)
"xu’athun stl’q’een’: hwulmuhw perspectives on art and language"
- MA Thesis Defence - Rae Anne Baker Claxton (August 20, 2020)
"lhwet ’a’lu kw’u xwi’em’? hwi’ ’een’thu tse’!: How I learned to tell and perform a Hul’q’umi’num’ story" - MA Thesis Defence - Zack Gilkison "How What Was Said Was Said: Quotation in Hul’q’umi’num’ Narrative Performance"
Undergraduate
- BA - Julienne Ignace
Major in Linguistics, Diploma in Linguistics, and Diploma in Indigenous Languages (Secwepemctsin Language Cohort)
2019 Graduates
Graduate
Linguistics in a First Nations Language
(Special Arrangement Cohorts)
Summer 2019:
- MA Project - Regena Seward-Wilson
"ni’ q’ushintul’ ’u tunu shhw’alukw’a’ | Traveling with my family: Growing and learning in the Hul’q’umi’num’ language"
Fall 2019:
- MA Project - Ivy Seward
"Wind from the North: Hul’q’umi’num’ speakers in Saanich."