Project Overview
Renewing Relations: Indigenous Heritage Rights and (Re)conciliation in Northwest Coast Canada is a Research Fellowship project led by Bryony Onciul and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
The project considers the role of heritage in relation to Indigenous Rights, following the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in British Columbia, Canada. It asks what it means to uphold Indigenous rights in practice, locally, for communities and heritage professionals. It looks at the long history of activism and change, and thinks about where we are now, what barriers remain, and what opportunities could make positive changes.
The project focuses on the importance of connections and reconnections: renewing relations within and across groups, different forms of heritage, places, practices, and wider kinship groups. It considers the role of ecosystems and environment in maintaining and sustaining heritage and upholding Indigenous rights.
The project considers the role of heritage in relation to Indigenous Rights, following the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in British Columbia, Canada. It asks what it means to uphold Indigenous rights in practice, locally, for communities and heritage professionals. It looks at the long history of activism and change, and thinks about where we are now, what barriers remain, and what opportunities could make positive changes.
The project focuses on the importance of connections and reconnections: renewing relations within and across groups, different forms of heritage, places, practices, and wider kinship groups. It considers the role of ecosystems and environment in maintaining and sustaining heritage and upholding Indigenous rights.
Project aim
Understanding the relationships between Indigenous rights, heritage, environment, kinship, and decolonization
Bryony OnciulProf. Bryony Onciul is a Professor of Museology and Heritage at the University of Exeter. She is an AHRC Fellow, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, a Senior Fellow of HEA, and a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia. https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/history/staff/onciul/ |
NW COAST, British Columbia |
FIRST PEOPLES' MAP OF B.C.The map shows some of the 204 First Nations communities and languages in BC. “Approximately 50% of the First Peoples’ languages of Canada are spoken in B.C.” (https://maps.fpcc.ca/) |