Welcome!

Me with short hair & looking serious as usual!

Hello and welcome! My name is Trevor Day, I have Indigenous, English & Chinese ancestry. My Indigenous ancestry is from St'uxwtews in Secwepemc territory. I acknowledge the Songhees & Esquimalt people whose traditional territory Camosun now sits on today. It is an honour to be a guest here in Victoria.

I'm a 2nd year student in the Indigenous studies program at Camosun and I came up with the idea of creating this blog as part of my Special Projects class. My inspiration for the blog came from my experience at school last fall semester. Because I only had classes two days a week, I found that I was losing touch with my classmates and the folks in the Aboriginal Education & Community Connections office. I thought that if someone started a blog that talked about what all our Indigenous students at Camosun are up to, someone like me could better keep in touch with what was going on in our community.

So that's what I'd like this space to be. A space to share what students are working on academically, and what's happening socially in our Indigenous Camosun community. And even though school will be finished in a few short weeks, this project is intended to last beyond the semester. If you are a spring & summer semester student interested in taking on the responsibility of contributing to the blog, email IndigenousStudents@gmail.com and we will set you up with an account. We also hope to have an honorarium system setup to give few dollars to those willing to keep the project alive.

For now, my classmate Dan Mack and I will be posting stories to this blog but we want to hear from all Indigenous students at Camosun. If there is something cool your class is doing, maybe you went to see a great Indigenous guest speaker or a local Aboriginal event, or maybe there is a personal reflection you have about being an Indigenous post-secondary student, we want to hear it!

That's all for now, enjoy what's left of the rest of the semester!
-Trevor Day