Bruce Allan

Resolution Health Support Worker / Elder & Cultural

Ts’umusyoo (Beaver clan)
Stellat’en First Nation 

Bruce is an educator who has taught in Elementary and Secondary schools and has taught at the College of New Caledonia since 1995 in First Nations Studies and currently Aboriginal Studies. The topics range from culture, history, residential schools, current events in indigenous political events, and more recently worked on developing materials for a new course at CNC. The focus of the course at CNC has been elders in the classroom.

I have worked with the various aboriginal agencies in Prince George including Carrier Sekani Family Services (CSFS); Carrier Sekani Tribal Council (CSTC); Prince George Native Learning Centre; Prince George Nechako Aboriginal Employment Training Association (PGNAETA) and the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). Presented on topics of drumming, traditional Balhats and traditional games such as Lahal.

Bruce is an intergenerational survivor through his grandmother and father who attended the Lejac Indian Residential School near Fraser Lake. Bruce also attended Lejac from 1967 to 1974. Bruce has worked with IRSSS from 2006 to 2013 as a Regional Health Support Worker in Prince George. Bruce also worked on the “Healing the Healers’” AHF project from 2000-2003. Bruce is a father and a grandfather.