UBC Faculty lawsuit challenges the historical, prehistorical accuracy of the “traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory”

University of British Columbia faculty lawsuit against indigenous land acknowledgements and EDI requirements

By —— Bio and Archives--April 24, 2025

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Four UBC faculty members, plus one graduate student, launched a petition against territorial acknowledgments and other diversity efforts in the BC Supreme Court. The professors behind the lawsuit are (from left) Brad Epperly, Andrew Irvine, Chris Kam, and Michael Treschow. Photos via UBC.

Four University of British Columbia professors and a recent PhD graduate student have filed a lawsuit against their university alleging official indigenous-focused land acknowledgments made by UBC along with equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) hiring requirements underpinning these acknowledgements violate UBC’s duty to “be non-sectarian and non-political in principle,” as legally codified in section 66 of the University Act.


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