{"id":4486,"date":"2023-03-08T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/?page_id=4486"},"modified":"2023-05-03T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:40:11","slug":"evelyn-voyageur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/ninoxsola\/evelyn-voyageur\/","title":{"rendered":"Evelyn Voyageur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-efkqt-ff3a52de231734063d85b89e20015296\">\n.flex_column.av-efkqt-ff3a52de231734063d85b89e20015296{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-efkqt-ff3a52de231734063d85b89e20015296 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kmpfc7m8-841cb3ba693786375e412c53cf16ad21\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kmpfc7m8-841cb3ba693786375e412c53cf16ad21 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kmpfc7m8-841cb3ba693786375e412c53cf16ad21 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kmpfc7m8-841cb3ba693786375e412c53cf16ad21 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  red-border'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-422 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-422 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/evelyn_voyageur.jpg\" alt='' title='evelyn_voyageur'  height=\"1033\" width=\"600\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/evelyn_voyageur.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/evelyn_voyageur-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/evelyn_voyageur-598x1030.jpg 598w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/03\/evelyn_voyageur-409x705.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9illp-7c6aae6fd9b46132320b19a76927e132\">\n.flex_column.av-9illp-7c6aae6fd9b46132320b19a76927e132{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-9illp-7c6aae6fd9b46132320b19a76927e132 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kmpeahxy-d2bf4908d5ee370a00974785e442ec9f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 class=\"pageTitle \">Ni&#8217;noxsola &#8211; Dr. Evelyn Voyageur<\/h2>\n<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Musgamagw Dzawada\u2019enuxw \u2013 Kingcome Inlet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite going to St. Michael\u2019s Residential School at age ten, Dr. Evelyn Voyageur is a fluent speaker of Kwakwala and an active matriarch in the Kwakwaka\u2019wakw culture and traditions. She has dedicated her life to improving the health of Indigenous peoples through her more than five decades in the nursing profession.<\/p>\n<p>As a registered nurse with a PhD in psychology, Dr. Voyageur has worked extensively in community- and hospital-based health care in across Alberta and British Columbia. She has worked with the Indian Residential School Society, where her work focused on supporting former students healing from the trauma of residential schools. She is also an educator who has taught and developed nursing curricula at the University of Victoria and North Island College.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Voyageur has received many awards for her contributions to Aboriginal nursing, including a 2018 Indspire Award for Health. This award acknowledged her promotion of Indigenous health in a number of capacities, most recently as BC representative for the Aboriginal Nurses Association and member of the board of St. Joseph\u2019s General Hospital in BC. Dr. Voyageur was also recognized in 2017 in two ways by the College of Registered Nurses of BC when she received the Life Time Achievement award and was one of 150 nurses across Canada chosen for excellence in nursing. Also of note, she was one of the first recipients of the Award of Excellence in Nursing from Health Canada\u2019s<br \/>\nFirst Nations and Inuit Branch.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Voyageur has been active in the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association (formerly Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada) since 1980, serving as the BC representative, vice-president, and president (2010 to 2012). She also founded the Native and Inuit Nurses Association of BC (NINA) in the early 1980s to help educate those who work with First Nations communities.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evelyn 2\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yz0vX45g13w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kwakwa&#8217;la Nature Bingo Cards created by Evelyn Voyageur and her granddaughter Carla Voyageur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Please refer to a Kwakwa&#8217;la speaker for the pronunciations of the words or they may be found at firstvoices.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg1.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg2.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg3.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg4.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg5.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg6.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg7.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg8.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg9.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/05\/kwakwala-nature-bingo-pg10.pdf\">kwak&#8217;wala nature bingo pg10<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":346,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 16:29:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4742,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4486\/revisions\/4742"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}