National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—SFU experts

September 30 marks first the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, also known as Orange Shirt Day. This new federal statutory holiday provides an opportunity to formally honour those impacted by Canada’s residential school system. 

SFU will mark the occasion with a week of events (in-person, livestreamed) starting Sept. 27. The following SFU faculty researchers can be available for comment on issues related to Indigenous reconciliation. 

AVAILABLE SFU EXPERTS

CLIFFORD ATLEO, assistant professor, resource and environmental management clifford_atleo@sfu.ca 
Expertise: Resource issues and Indigenous peoples (pipelines, fisheries, forestry and clean energy).

DOUG MCARTHUR, professor, public policy
doug_mcarthur@sfu.ca
Expertise: Indigenous peoples and self-government, treaties, negotiations and resource issues. 

ALEXIA MCKINNON, director, Indigenous programs, Beedie School of Business
alexia_mckinnon@sfu.ca
Expertise: Decolonizing and Indigenizing post-secondary institutions.

GEORGE NICHOLAS, professor, archaeology
 nicholas@sfu.ca
Expertise: Issues relating to Indigenous heritage concerns and protection in Canada.

LYANA PATRICK, assistant professor, health sciences 
 lyana_patrick@sfu.ca
Expertise: Indigenous peoples’ health and justice – urban Indigenous community health, criminal justice, addictions and mental health and well-being.

ELDON YELLOWHORN, professor, Indigenous studies
 eldon_yellowhorn@sfu.ca
Expertise: Archaeological methods in the search for residential school missing children, Indigenous language revitalization, contemporary intellectual property and traditional knowledge.

CONTACT 

MELISSA SHAW, SFU  Communications & Marketing 
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca 

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