Pictured above: Wawaditla, also known as Mungo Martin House-the ceremonial big house built by Chief Mungo Martin-at Thunderbird Park on the traditional territory of the l?kw’n?n peoples and of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. (Credit: Krystal Hunt)
Pictured above: Wawaditla, also known as Mungo Martin House-the ceremonial big house built by Chief Mungo Martin-at Thunderbird Park on the traditional territory of the l?kw'n?n peoples and of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. (Credit: Krystal Hunt) Traditional songs, dances and speeches are part of an Indigenous naming ceremony held today at Wawadiťła, also known as Mungo Martin House-the ceremonial big house built seven decades ago by the late Chief Mungo Martin-at Thunderbird Park on the traditional territory of the lÉ™k̓ʷəŋən peoples and of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. The University of Victoria is grateful to the family of Chief Mungo Martin, the world-renowned Kwakwaka-wakw artist and revered figure in Pacific Northwest Coast and contemporary Indigenous art, for the honour of the title of UVic's new research chair in Indigenous mental health. Chief Mungo Martin was a leader in Indigenous art and culture. We are deeply thankful to his family for their generosity in permitting the university to use the name of their respected relative to honour the new role at UVic, with now this enduring connection to the creative arts which play such an integral role in shifting cultural perceptions of mental health. -Lois Harder, UVic's Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences - The inaugural position of the Chief Mungo Martin Research Chair in Indigenous Mental Health is held by Indigenous scholar Emily A.P. Haigh, a psychologist and citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
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