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VIU Honours First Nations Advocate With Honorary Degree
May 29, 2018
NANAIMO, British Columbia, May 29 -- Vancouver Island University issued the following news:

Since childhood, Gene Anne Joseph was always happiest with a book in hand.

"My parents and family would joke that I wouldn't move in an earthquake if I was reading," Joseph says.

Joseph's father had an elementary-level education in federal Indian day school and her mother attended residential school until age 16. Her parents raised 12 children. Du . . .

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