Tóltset Ye Sp’eq’ó - We Learn Together - Indigenous Studies - LibGuides UFV at University of the Fraser Valley

Introduction

This project came together through the work of Dr. Lolehawk Laura Buker and her student Meghan Hilton as a directed studies project in Fall 2025 and conversations with Indigenous Studies Liaison Librarian Janelle Sztuhar. This project is growing and evolving as we learn more ourselves and we share the project as an invitation for people to explore Indigenous topics, current events, news, and more.

Tóltset Ye Sp’eq’ó- We Learn Together.

Contributors

Dr Lolehawk, student Meghan, and librarian Janelle in a room with a TV, curtain, and sound panels getting ready to record

Dr. Lolehawk Laura Buker

UFV Indigenous Studies Faculty Member

Meghan Hilton

UFV Student

Janelle Sztuhar

Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian, Indigenous Studies Liaison

Theme 1 - October 2026

Listen to our audio introduction to the first Issue of Tóltset Ye Sp’eq’ó- We Learn Together.

Browse the resource guide put together by Meghan in the online PDF viewer or download the PDF using the link below.

We Learn Together Sept Oct Issue 1 - PDF
Download this PDF created by Meghan with more resources, events, and news.

Related UFV Library Books to Highlighted Articles

Webster, R. (2025). A Path to Sustainable Prefab. BC Business, 53(6), 14.
Meghan's article for Issue 1 (link for UFV access)

Reclaiming Indigenous Planning by Ryan Walker (Editor); Ted Jojola (Editor); David Natcher (Editor)
Call Number: HN 110 Z9 C673 2013

ISBN: 9780773541948

Publication Date: 2013-08-06

"In Reclaiming Indigenous Planning, scholars and practitioners connect the past and present to facilitate better planning for the future. With examples from the Canadian Arctic to the Australian desert, and the cities, towns, reserves and reservations in between, contributors engage topics including Indigenous mobilization and resistance, awareness-raising and seven-generations visioning, Indigenous participation in community planning processes, and forms of governance."
Planning for Coexistence? by Libby Porter; Janice Barry
Call Number: eBook

ISBN: 9781315600727

Publication Date: 2016-06-10

"Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations. But what actually happens in the planning contact zone - when Indigenous demands for recognition of coexisting political authority over territory intersect with environmental and urban land-use planning systems in settler-colonial states?" (abstract)

Deranger, E. T., Sinclair, R., Gray, B., McGregor, D., & Gobby, J. (2022). Decolonizing Climate Research and Policy: making space to tell our own stories, in our own ways. Community Development Journal, 57(1), 52–73.
Dr. Lolehawk's article for Issue 1 (link for UFV access)

Traditional Ecological Knowledge by Melissa K. Nelson (Editor); Daniel Shilling (Editor)
Call Number: GN 476.7 T73 2018 (Abbotsford)

ISBN: 9781108428569

Publication Date: 2018-10-11

"This book examines the importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how it can provide models for a time-tested form of sustainability needed in the world today. The essays, written by a team of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, explore TEK through compelling cases of environmental sustainability from multiple tribal and geographic locations in North America and beyond."
Medicine wheel for the planet : a journey toward personal and ecological healing by Dr. Jennifer Grenz.
Call Number: QH 541.15 R45 G74 2024

ISBN: 9781039006010

Publication Date: 2024

"In Medicine Wheel for the Planet, building on sacred stories, field observations and her own journey, Dr. Grenz invites readers to share in the teachings of the four directions of the medicine wheel" (abstract)

Additional Research Options

I-Portal (Indigenous Studies Portal)
The I-Portal (Indigenous Studies Portal) has full text electronic resources such as books, articles, theses and documents as well as digitized materials such as photographs, archival resources, maps, etc. focusing primarily on Indigenous peoples of Canada. Includes geographic locations of various communities and links to research content of that specific community.