Musqueam Welcome

August 23, 2022 7:00 p.m.

Elder Larry Grant

Adjunct Professor, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program Consultant, UBC Musqueam Language and Culture Department

Larry Grant was born and raised in Musqueam traditional Territory by a traditional hənqəminəm speaking Musqueam family. When Larry enrolled in the First Nations Languages Program at UBC after four decades as a longshore man, it awoke his memory of the imbedded value that the hənqəminəm language has to self-identity, kinship, culture, spirituality, territory, and history prior to European colonisation.

Grant served as Elder-in-Residence at the UBC First Nations House of Learning where he played a key role in educating others about the first peoples who lived here. He is also an adjunct professor with the UBC Musqueam Language and Culture Program within the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, where he teaches the first-year hən’q’əmin’əm’ language course. Today he serves the Musqueam people as the Language and Culture Consultant. He is a former band counsellor, a grandfather, educator and cultural practitioner.

In 2010, Larry Grant received the Alumni Award of Distinction from Vancouver Community College, and in 2014, he became an Honorary Graduate from the Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP) at UBC. He also received the 2019 UBC President’s Medal of Excellence.

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