Telling Stories of Chinese and First Nations Relations: at Musqueam and Across Canada

As part of the UBC Centennial Lunar New Year Festival (http://diversity.ubc.ca/lunar-new-yea...) on Friday, February 5, 2016, we warmly invited the community to join us for a gathering of storytelling featuring the hidden history of early Chinese Canadian and First Nations relations. Master of Ceremonies: Debra Martel, Associate Director, First Nations House of Learning Welcome to unceded Musqueam territory by Elder Larry Grant, Musqueam Opening remarks by Professor Henry Yu, Department of History Screening of short film entitled Peeking into the Pink Houses at Musqueam: A Migration Story Premiere of official trailer for feature-length documentary All Our Father's Relations Reading of multilingual Musqueam children’s book entitled "ʔi ɬe nem̓ ʔəm̓xasəm̓!, 我們出去走走啦!, Let’s Take a Walk!" produced by Elder Larry Grant and Sarah Ling in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, Cantonese and English Q & A This event took place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation. This event was generously supported and sponsored by: UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies Program (http://acam.arts.ubc.ca/) UBC Centennial Office (http://100.ubc.ca/) UBC Equity and Inclusion Office (http://equity.ubc.ca/) UBC First Nations and Endangered Languages Program (http://fnel.arts.ubc.ca/) UBC First Nations House of Learning (http://aboriginal.ubc.ca/) UBC First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program (http://fnis.arts.ubc.ca/)