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See Musqueam First Nation website for historical and current information http://www.musqueam.bc.ca. Accessed April 26, 2016.
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Italics will be used to distinguish the authors’ personal stories.
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Terms such as Native, Aboriginal, Indian and Indigenous will be used in this chapter. The terms Native and Indian will be used to signify a particular time period when each term was predominantly used. Aboriginal and Indigenous will be used interchangeably.
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An additional term is needed to complete the degree requirements if students enter the program with no university transfer credits.
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This story was told orally and then used in many of NITEP’s promotional materials over the years; therefore, it does not have an official source and date for a citation. There are many versions of Raven and Sun throughout the westcoast of British Columbia.
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The discussion of the principles is limited to NITEP’s governance and programmatic delivery. Much more could be discussed about each principle. Over NITEP’s 41-year history, many programmatic changes have occurred. This chapter includes programmatic components that have been a strength of NITEP and examples of new projects are introduced.
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The centres are located at Lillooet in the BC interior, Agassiz/Seabrid Island in the Fraser Valley, and at the Vancouver UBC campus, called the Urban NITEP Centre.
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NITEP 2.0 includes moving from full face to face instruction for NITEP courses to blended delivery with some courses online and others face to face. The coordinator’s responsibilities have been reduced along with their appointment, which is now 40%. The partners take on more recruitment and student support services along with the on-campus NITEP office staff and coordinators.
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See http://www.cmec.ca/53/Programs-and-Initiatives/Aboriginal-Education/Overview/index.html. Accessed April 29, 2016.
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See Accord on Indigenous Education (2010), http://www.csse-scee.ca/docs/acde/acde_accord_indigenousresearch_en.pdf. Accessed April 29, 2016.
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http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=890. Accessed April 29, 2016.
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Archibald, Ja., La Rochelle, J. (2018). Raven’s Response to Teacher Education: NITEP, an Indigenous Story. In: Whitinui, P., Rodriguez de France, C., McIvor, O. (eds) Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6400-5_15
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