Indigenous Environmental Justice

Principal Investigator: Deborah McGregor. Co-Investigators: Dayna Scott and Martha Stiegman. Funding: Canada Research Chair. Term: 2020-2025. The Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) research and outreach project aims to develop a distinctive EJ framework that is informed by Indigenous knowledge systems, laws, concepts of justice and the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples. It serves as a resource for

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Polishing the Chain

Principal Investigator: Martha Stiegman. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2020-2023. This is a knowledge translation project that leverages the research of the Indigenous-led Talking Treaties community arts project to instigate, amplify, and enrich public discussion on our treaty responsibilities as settler and Indigenous residents of Tkaron:to. The overarching goal is to activate along-neglected treaty obligation

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Relational Accountability for Indigenous Rematriation (RAIR): Creating food sovereignty through rematriation, land sharing, and relationship building

Principal Investigator: Sarah Rotz. Funding: SSHRC Insight Development Grant. Term: 2019-2023. The purpose of this RAIR Collective research project is to support grassroots Indigenous rematriation and (re)connection to land. It supports the convergence of food sovereign peoples in ways that advance dialogue and action for Indigenous land rematriation. This work centres Indigenous women and two-spirit presence,

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FOUR INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS GAUGE PROGRESS IN RESPECTING CULTURE, SCHOLARSHIP

Indigenous research and scholarship is about infusing higher education institutions with eons of wisdom that was dismissed and discarded through colonization. Freelance writer Paul Fraumeni discusses the profusion of Indigenous wisdom at York University with four prominent thought leaders. February 10, 2020. On the seventh floor of York University’s Kaneff Tower people are taking their

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