Larry Grant

Larry Grant is a Musqueam–Chinese Elder, artist, cultural knowledge keeper, and storyteller whose life and work illuminate a rarely told history of Indigenous and Chinese presence on the West Coast. Larry Grant is the Elder-in-residence at the Justice Institute of BC and the University of British Columbia’s First Nations House of Learning. He holds a President’s Medal from UBC and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Simon Fraser University.  Born in a hop field outside Vancouver, Grant is the son of a Musqueam cultural leader and a Chinese immigrant from Guangdong, and his life has been shaped by the enduring impacts of colonial policy and cultural resilience.  In Reconciling, Grant shares his personal and historical journey, reflecting on identity, displacement, and the meaning of reconciliation for Indigenous peoples and Canada.  He lives with his wife on the Musqueam reserve in Vancouver.