Honouring Our People

Dr. Jo-ann Archibald

Q’um Q’um Xiiem ,Sto:lo Nation ,Director of FNHL (1993-2001)

Ann Doyle

Head of X̱wi7x̱wa Library (1996-2017)

Larry Grant

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, FNHL Elder in Residence and Adjunct Professor of First Nations and Endangered Languages Program

Rosalyn Ing

Opaskwayak Cree Nation, Coordinator of the First Nations Health Careers (1994 - 2003)

Dr. Eduardo Jovel

Itz Cohuatl, Pipil and Mayan, Interim Director of FNHL (2021-2022)

Gene Joseph

Wet'suwet'en Nadleh'dena First Nations Librarian from Hagwilget, British Columbia Founding Librarian of X̱wi7x̱wa Library (1984 - Late 1990s)

Dr. Linc Kesler

Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Director of FNHL (2009 – 2018)

Verna J. Kirkness

Fisher River Cree Nation, Inaugural Director of FNHL (1985-1993)

Margaret P. Moss

Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota), Director of FNHL (2018 – Present)

Dr. Richard Vedan

Secwepemc First Nation, Director of FNHL (2001 – 2008), Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work