Indigenous Studies

Location:	Marion McCain Building 6135 University Avenue Room 3010 P.O. Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Telephone:	(902) 494-2221
Fax:	(902) 494-1957
Website:	www.dal.ca/IndigenousStudies
Email:	indg@dal.ca

Students can enhance their familiarity with Indigenous peoples and nations, their cultures and languages, and the issues affecting them. Learners completing the Certificate or Minor in Indigenous Studies at Dalhousie will become familiar with local L’nuwey perspectives on historical and contemporary political, social, and economic issues.

Objectives of the Indigenous Studies program include:

• Recognizing and affirming the unceded nature of Mi’kmaw territory and nurturing scholarly work to deepen understandings of our nation-to-nation relationship under our Peace and Friendship Treaties;
• Celebrating and supporting the renaissance in Mi’kmaw language, culture, ceremony, and other Mi’kmaw ways of being, thinking, and doing;
• Developing capacities to design and conduct community-driven and culturally relevant research with the Mi’kmaw nation, Mi’kmaw communities, Mi’kmaw people, and with other Indigenous nations and peoples;
• Imparting an appreciation for diverse ways the Mi’kmaq and other Indigenous peoples, create, understand, evaluate, share, and express knowledge;
• Nurturing the skills to critically analyze, understand, and respond to issues pertaining to the Mi’kmaq and/or to other Indigenous nations and peoples.

Minor requirements

Certificate requirements

For general information on Bachelor of Arts program requirements, see the College of Arts and Science section of the Academic Calendar.