Join us on November 8 from 10-12 pm for tea and bannock in the Indigenous Gathering Place at the New Westminster Campus to meet our New Elder in residence. Please feel free to drop by anytime.
Marny Point is from the Musqueam band, of the Coast Salish people. She earned both her degrees: A Bachelor of Education & Master of Educational Technology and is currently a Ph.D. student in LLED at UBC. Marny has taught for NITEP UBC’s Indigenous Bachelor of Education program as well as in the First Nation’s Endangered Language Program Instructor, teaching the traditional Musqueam language course, hən̓ q̓ əmin̓ əm̓ from 2002 until 2019. She understands how the connection to Indigenous languages; gives value, honour and a sense of identity, which cements Native Indigenous, people in place and culture. Marny is an avid fisherwoman – owning and operating her own gillnetter. Harvesting sockeye salmon from the Fraser River, as her dad and grandfather always did. Marny is actively involved in the education of the Indigenous youth and sits on many committees to ensure the betterment of Indigenous education.
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