HERE FIRST:
Starting Guide for Settlers
HERE FIRST:
Starting Guide for Settlers
Thank you for checking out HERE FIRST: Starting Guide for Settlers. The Capilano Students’ Union has put this guide together as a resource to help settlers learn more about Indigenous peoples in Canada (and here at Capilano University!). This guide is designed for settlers — but what does that mean? Well, authors Andrea Eidinger and Sarah York-Bertram put it this way: “Being a settler means that you are non-Indigenous and that you or your ancestors came and settled in a land that had been inhabited by Indigenous people." This term is not derogatory: it’s a fact. Whether you’re a non-Indigenous domestic student, or a migrant/international student attending CapU for a few years on a study permit, you’re a settler on stolen Indigenous lands.
This starting guide is just what it sounds like — it’s a place to start learning about Indigenous peoples and the Indigenous programs, services, and spaces provided by the Capilano Students’ Union and Capilano University. You’re not going to find all of your answers here, but we hope you’ll learn enough to know where to go next on your journey to discover how settlers can stand in solidarity with the Indigenous community at CapU.
This document is a living resource, and the Capilano Students' Union is committed to updating it with new information as applicable.
Here is a summary of what has changed recently:
Updated site with new artwork! See below for details on the artist. ♥
Updated the Resilience and Strength page.
Updated the Reading and Resources page.
Added an Articles and Blogs page! Check out the first article on "Pretendians".
The artwork displayed throughout this resource was created as part of an installation on campus to recognize and honour the 215 children whose unmarked graves were discovered on the land of the government-funded and church-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021. The artist is Shelley Ferguson, a member of the Qayqayt Nation and a Capilano University Alumni.