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PhD recipient Richard Vedan and PhD candidate Nola Markey were honored for their outstanding academic performance in 2002.

Richard VedanRichard Vedan, of B.C.'s Secwepemc (Shuswap) nation, won the dean of graduate studies convocation medal in education; his thesis on the roots of aboriginal violence promises to help change relationships between First Nations men and caregivers in the future.

Vedan, the son of a residential school survivor and an English war bride, cautions that "there is no quick fix. But things must change, or there will be another five or six generations of native kids coming into foster care at disproportionately high rates."

 

Nola MarkeyNola Markey, representing Manitoba's O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi (Crane River) nation, received the Society for American Archaeology's Arthur C. Parker scholarship for Native Americans to support her research marrying oral history and archaeology. Markey is one of many SFU students who have acquired first-hand archaeology experience from the archaeological field school in Kamloops, British Columbia. The field school is part of a university degree-granting program co-run by the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society and SFU, and is the only program of its kind in Canada.

 

For more information

SFU News Release (Vedan)
SCES-SFU Archaeology Field School


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