Johanna Sam
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Hunilht'ih. Sid Johanna Sam sets’edinh. Sid Tŝilhqot’in deni nesdlin. UBC ʔesgul tasalh. Associate Professor chu Michael Smith Health Research BC Scholar benadast'in. Sid Musqueam nen Vancouver 🇨🇦 ŝidah as. Deni tsin nadint'i 🩵🐦⬛
On the 10-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, my research in the Yatu Lab continues to engage with Calls to Action 10, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, and 23, which focus on Indigenous education, language revitalization, health equity, and Indigenous-led health systems
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My statement:
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney marking 10 years since the release of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
For more than a century, Canada ran residential schools. Over 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children were forcibly taken from their homes, separated from their families and communities, and ...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
On the 10-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, my research in the Yatu Lab continues to engage with Calls to Action 10, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, and 23, which focus on Indigenous education, language revitalization, health equity, and Indigenous-led health systems
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As research on Indigenous rights, equity, diversity, and inclusion is being halted in the U.S., scholars in Canada have a responsibility to respond. This winter break, I am prioritizing research and writing. Silence is not a neutral position 👩🏽💻✍🏽
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December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
As research on Indigenous rights, equity, diversity, and inclusion is being halted in the U.S., scholars in Canada have a responsibility to respond. This winter break, I am prioritizing research and writing. Silence is not a neutral position 👩🏽💻✍🏽
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Some may not see the challenges we face. Denialist groups, motivated by hate, are anticipated to target UBC in the new year. The Longhouse will serve as a secure refuge for Nenqayni students, staff, and faculty. Campus Security is alerted. Stay calm, grounded, and safe 🙏🏽
#AcademicSky #indigenous
#AcademicSky #indigenous
While Canada’s residential school era has become a key piece of our national identity, there has been an eruption of late of what some academics call denialism.
That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates:
That eruption & efforts to counter it, is the focus of the new episode of APTN Investigates:
Denialism close-up - an APTN Investigates
APTN Investigates Dismantling Denialism by correspondent Christopher Read delves into residential school denialism.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Some may not see the challenges we face. Denialist groups, motivated by hate, are anticipated to target UBC in the new year. The Longhouse will serve as a secure refuge for Nenqayni students, staff, and faculty. Campus Security is alerted. Stay calm, grounded, and safe 🙏🏽
#AcademicSky #indigenous
#AcademicSky #indigenous
The 62 Indigenous artifacts that came over to Canada from the Vatican in repatriation efforts will be housed in Ottawa at the Canadian Museum of History.
The artifacts arrived in Montreal on Saturday and were transferred to Ottawa.
The artifacts arrived in Montreal on Saturday and were transferred to Ottawa.
62 Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican will be housed at Canadian Museum of History | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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December 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I’m serving as an expert on the CSA Group committee developing PRV STD-16: School-Based Substance Use Prevention, Education & Intervention (K–12). The draft standard is now open for public review until Dec 6 2025. Review and comment here: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/Details...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I’m serving as an expert on the CSA Group committee developing PRV STD-16: School-Based Substance Use Prevention, Education & Intervention (K–12). The draft standard is now open for public review until Dec 6 2025. Review and comment here: publicreview.csa.ca/Home/Details...
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Doom scrolling Hurricane Melissa and realizing this is how we now witness climate change: through live feeds and endless refresh 😔 Prayers JAH 🇯🇲💚🙏🏽
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October 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Doom scrolling Hurricane Melissa and realizing this is how we now witness climate change: through live feeds and endless refresh 😔 Prayers JAH 🇯🇲💚🙏🏽
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I was getting ready to speak at the World Congress on Adolescent Health next week. But Hurricane Melissa — the largest storm in the world right now 🌏, fueled by our warming oceans and climate change — has put everything on hold. Sending love, prayers, and strength to Jamaica 🙏🏽💚🇯🇲
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I was getting ready to speak at the World Congress on Adolescent Health next week. But Hurricane Melissa — the largest storm in the world right now 🌏, fueled by our warming oceans and climate change — has put everything on hold. Sending love, prayers, and strength to Jamaica 🙏🏽💚🇯🇲
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#AcademicSky
AI like Grok can ‘learn’ fast but so can spreading misinformation and systemic bias. Grok isn’t neutral. Unchecked AI on social media can amplify bias and inequality faster than any human ever could. Which platform will be next?
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Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
Brace for another wave of x refuges
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
AI like Grok can ‘learn’ fast but so can spreading misinformation and systemic bias. Grok isn’t neutral. Unchecked AI on social media can amplify bias and inequality faster than any human ever could. Which platform will be next?
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#AcademicSky
ICE recruitment ads on Spotify? Not for us. Yatu Lab is looking for podcast platforms that reflect our values and support our communities ✊🏽
Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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October 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
ICE recruitment ads on Spotify? Not for us. Yatu Lab is looking for podcast platforms that reflect our values and support our communities ✊🏽
Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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Where do you listen to podcasts? I’d love your suggestions!
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Wrapped up the day reviewing feedback on our Nenqayni early childhood partnership grant. Now deciding whether to push for the tight deadline or wait for the next funding cycle
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Wrapped up the day reviewing feedback on our Nenqayni early childhood partnership grant. Now deciding whether to push for the tight deadline or wait for the next funding cycle
#AcademicSky #Indigenous
#AcademicSky #Indigenous
Some good news 🎉 One of my grad students in the Yatu lab was awarded a small Truth and Reconciliation grant! She’ll be creating podcasts to share racialized early childhood educators’ voices and their decolonizing learning journeys. Stay tuned 😄
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#AcademicSky #Indigenous
October 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Some good news 🎉 One of my grad students in the Yatu lab was awarded a small Truth and Reconciliation grant! She’ll be creating podcasts to share racialized early childhood educators’ voices and their decolonizing learning journeys. Stay tuned 😄
#AcademicSky #Indigenous
#AcademicSky #Indigenous
Reviewed two new BREB ethics applications today — one on student attendance in Vancouver’s inner-city schools (led by a paediatric resident doing meaningful community work) and another exploring ungrading practices in high school classrooms
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October 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Reviewed two new BREB ethics applications today — one on student attendance in Vancouver’s inner-city schools (led by a paediatric resident doing meaningful community work) and another exploring ungrading practices in high school classrooms
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Today was devoted to research budgets. It’s slow-going work, but progress is being made. Dinner was ramen with an egg and leftover turkey—a modest, satisfying way to end the day 🍜
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October 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Today was devoted to research budgets. It’s slow-going work, but progress is being made. Dinner was ramen with an egg and leftover turkey—a modest, satisfying way to end the day 🍜
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
I just sent 8 emails to people who asked if I could supervise their PhDs. It’s so hard saying no — they’re all amazing students — but I don’t have the capacity right now. I’m trying to hold spots in my Yatu Lab for folks whose research really aligns with my own projects 📚
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October 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I just sent 8 emails to people who asked if I could supervise their PhDs. It’s so hard saying no — they’re all amazing students — but I don’t have the capacity right now. I’m trying to hold spots in my Yatu Lab for folks whose research really aligns with my own projects 📚
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Exciting news 🤩 My book chapter on Nenqayni young peoples’ experiences with online hate got accepted with just minor revisions! It’ll be published in a textbook called Psychology Applications & Developments XI. Working on reviewers’ feedback now
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October 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Exciting news 🤩 My book chapter on Nenqayni young peoples’ experiences with online hate got accepted with just minor revisions! It’ll be published in a textbook called Psychology Applications & Developments XI. Working on reviewers’ feedback now
#AcademicSky #indigenous
#AcademicSky #indigenous
I missed this webinar but want to watch it later when things slow down. It’s part of the Faculty of Education Dean’s distinguished speakers series. Dr. Leanne Simpson recently wrote the book, Theory of Water (great read) 👀
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October 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I missed this webinar but want to watch it later when things slow down. It’s part of the Faculty of Education Dean’s distinguished speakers series. Dr. Leanne Simpson recently wrote the book, Theory of Water (great read) 👀
#AcademicSky #education
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#AcademicSky #education
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Today I prepare dinner, not to celebrate the colonial history of Thanksgiving, but to give thanks in my own way — for family, friends, community, and the land and waters that sustain us 💙 Thanksgiving is not Nenqayni, yet gratitude remains central to our lives 🫶🏽🧡
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October 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Today I prepare dinner, not to celebrate the colonial history of Thanksgiving, but to give thanks in my own way — for family, friends, community, and the land and waters that sustain us 💙 Thanksgiving is not Nenqayni, yet gratitude remains central to our lives 🫶🏽🧡
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#AcademicSky
Grant writing season 👩🏽💻 Three deadlines next week. Projects span early childhood education across BC, substance use standards in schools across Canada, community wellness research cluster in BC public health, and Nenqayni water-based healing. Collaboration in full swing 🫶🏽 send snacks
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October 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Grant writing season 👩🏽💻 Three deadlines next week. Projects span early childhood education across BC, substance use standards in schools across Canada, community wellness research cluster in BC public health, and Nenqayni water-based healing. Collaboration in full swing 🫶🏽 send snacks
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Every year, one white man in teacher education program repeats the script: tired of apologizing, denies colonialism, claims no privilege. And every year, we faculty debrief—unpacking, soothing, strategizing. Same dance: cleaning up what colonial denial leaves behind 🙄
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October 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Every year, one white man in teacher education program repeats the script: tired of apologizing, denies colonialism, claims no privilege. And every year, we faculty debrief—unpacking, soothing, strategizing. Same dance: cleaning up what colonial denial leaves behind 🙄
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
Very first Yatu Lab 🌊 Rooted in the Nenqayni Chi’h word for ocean/deep water, we’re building a space for youth, communities, educators, and researchers to connect. Our first session flowed from nerves to lively talk on AI in grad research—Yatu’s spirit of curiosity + connection alive🩵
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September 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Very first Yatu Lab 🌊 Rooted in the Nenqayni Chi’h word for ocean/deep water, we’re building a space for youth, communities, educators, and researchers to connect. Our first session flowed from nerves to lively talk on AI in grad research—Yatu’s spirit of curiosity + connection alive🩵
#AcademicSky
#AcademicSky
A new Nenqayni water-based book is available 🌊 Eye spy a chapter by Tl’etinqox voices you may know 😉 Bring water, story, and healing into your classrooms and research 🩵
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Access Our Anthologies on Water | Indigenous Message on Water
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September 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A new Nenqayni water-based book is available 🌊 Eye spy a chapter by Tl’etinqox voices you may know 😉 Bring water, story, and healing into your classrooms and research 🩵
#AcademicSky #Indigenous
indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...
#AcademicSky #Indigenous
indigenous-message.org/anthologies-...