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Abstract
Within the pages of this document you will find the whispers of ways of being that have come to live within my heart as I journeyed towards obtaining a mainstream education through participation in the oral transmission of knowledge.
As a member of the Stl'atl'imx Nation, I needed to honour the ways of knowing that are traditional to my people in the fulfillment of the requirements for my Master's degree in First Nations Studies. In doing so, I have recorded on my heart the teachings so gently shared with me by my Uncle Ray Peters, Aunties Laura Purcell and Rose Smith of the Samahquam Band, my Aunty Toni Archie of the Tsq'escen Band, and by Tina Fraser and Leona Neilson from the First Nations Studies department at UNBC.
Through blending the understandings I have gained from both the academic and Indigenous worlds, this thesis represents the possibilities that await us when we seek to honour and value diverse ways of knowing.
