Tŝilhqot’in Nation and UBC sign Memorandum of Understanding

Credit: Laureen Carruthers

The Tŝilhqot’in National Government (TNG) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at UBC’s Vancouver campus on Wednesday, December 8, 2021.

The signing demonstrates TNG’s and UBC’s commitments to lighting new paths towards reconciliation and recognition of Indigenous self-determination, in the spirit of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the advancement of UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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