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Note: Funding for these two awards is generously provided by the . 

Undergraduate Award
Dr. Aimee August was a Secw茅pemc elder who worked tirelessly to help revive and preserve the language, culture, and traditions of the Secw茅pemc whose traditional lands occupy a vast territory of the BC interior. A well-respected Elder in her community, August worked for decades with linguists, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists and ethnobotanists to record and document Secw茅pemc language and culture. She compiled the first Secw茅pemc language-learning kit for the local community. In 1992, 51猎奇入口and the Secw茅pemc Education Institute awarded August an honourary doctorate at a special convocation ceremony in Kamloops, where INLP was first formed. 

Graduate Award
Dr. Ruby Peter Award in Indigenous Language Proficiency 
Dr. Ruby Peter (Sti鈥檛um鈥檃tul鈥檞ut) was a respected knowledge holder from the Quamichan Band, Cowichan Tribes, and an honourary doctorate recipient from both 51猎奇入口and the University of Victoria. An accomplished linguistic researcher, Peter demonstrated an unfaltering lifetime commitment towards Hul'q'umi'num' language revitalization, instruction, analysis, and documentation. As the lead Elder in the teaching team for 51猎奇入口community-based language programs in Duncan, BC, Peter was instrumental in the development of INLP's Diploma in Indigenous Language Proficiency. For over six decades she trained new speakers of the language and currently there are over 200 fluent second language speakers and many thousands who have a basic knowledge of the language, largely thanks to Peter and the language teachers she trained.