Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian

Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian is Secwépemc and Syilx from the interior plateau regions of what is known as British Columbia. She is happy to be a good relative to her Coast Salish cousins while she lives, works, and plays on their lands. Her research centralizes land, story, cultural protocols, and how Indigenous knowledge informs and guides interrelationships with Canadian settler society. Her curiosity about how cultural knowledge influences Indigenous production practices started when she was working for the national broadcaster VisionTV to bring Indigenous stories to the screen.

Dorothy works as the associate director, Indigenous Policy and Pedagogy at Simon Fraser University. While she writes scholarly chapters and participates in community on many levels, Dorothy remains involved in the Indigenous visual storytelling culture in Canada. She serves as a board member of the Indigenous Screen Office in Toronto and curated programs for the 2018 and 2019 ImagineNATIVE film festival, the largest Indigenous film festival in the world.