Elder Ruby Peter and Hul'q'umi'num' Language and Culture Society featured in CBC News 

December 16, 2019
CBC News published an article highlighting the work Elder Ruby Peter and the Hul'q'umi'num' Language and Culture Society has done to preserve the Hul'q'umi'num' language. This past spring, four generations of Elder Peter's family received university honours from SFU. 

> Elders and great-grandchildren share the legacy of learning Hul'q'umi'num'

SSHRC Impact - Partnership Award

December 4, 2019
Professor Marianne Ignace was awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact - Partnership Award at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. She is being recognized for her achievements in Indigenous language revitalization, and the impact she has made beyond the social sciences research community. 

> Partnerships to help save Indigenous languages lauded with humanities research award 

FASS Cormack Teaching Award

October 17, 2019 
Congratulations to professor Marianne Ignace who has been awarded the 2019 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) Cormack Teaching Award at the FASS Autumn Reception and Cormack Teaching Symposium. 

> Waking Sleeping Languages for Silent Speakers 

Congratulations Regena!

October 10, 2019 
Regena Seward-Wilson crossed the Convocation stage with her MA degree in Linguistics in a First Nations Language. 

Her MA project is titled "ni’ q’ushintul’ ’u tunu shhw’alukw’a’ | Traveling with my family: Growing and learning in the Hul’q’umi’num’ language". 

Warmest Welcome

September 10, 2019
We would like to welcome Cheyenne Cunningham to the FNLP team as the new Program Coordinator. Cheyenne brings to FNLP her familiarity of First Nations language initiatives. Cheyenne is a recent (inaugural cohort) graduate of SFU's new Master of Arts in Linguistics of a First Nations Language Program and is a First Nations language teacher in her community.

Governor General’s Innovation Award

May 30, 2019
Professor Marianne Ignace and Chief Ronald E. Ignace received the 2019 Governor General’s Innovation Awards at the award ceremony in Ottawa. 

> Chief Dr. Ronald Ignace and Dr. Marianne Ignace successfully combined scientific knowledge with wisdom of Elders

> Decades of Indigenous collaboration lead to Governor General's Innovation Award

2018-19 First Nations Languages Graduates!

June 13, 2019 
The first cohort for the Master of Arts (MA) program in Linguistics of a First Nations Language received their degrees this week. There were 24 convocating students from the program who were part of the Burnaby cohort (Haida, Halkomelem, Kaska, Secwepemctsin and Tahltan) and the community-based cohort (Hul’q’umi’num’) in Duncan.

Students from the Certificate in First Nations Language Proficiency Program were also conferred their certificate credential during Convocation. 

> June 2019 Convocation Program Book

Ruby Peter Awarded an SFU Honorary Degree

Ruby Peter is a Coast Salish elder who for six decades has brought her love of Hul’q’umi’num’ cultural traditions to her language teaching and linguistic research. SFU conferred the Doctor of Laws, honoris causa to Ruby Peter in recognition of her work.