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Indigenous Peoples & communities

Universities are also engaged in processes to understand their roles in Indigenous dispossession to advance reconciliation. A number of external guidelines and principles are available to support Indigenous community-based research in ways that are in keeping with Indigenous values and traditions. 


Guidelines and principles for Indigenous community-based research

  • , Government of Canada’s Panel on Research Ethics, 2012. (Video)
  • , Government of Canada Strategic Plan 2019-22

Examples of research and training projects for Indigenous peoples

  • , Tkaronto CIRCLE lab.
  • (2017-2022)
Purple and black maple leaf against a white background

For more resources specific to research at Â鶹AV, visit the Resource Hub created by the Office of Indigenous Initiatives.


Â鶹AV is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

For more information about traditional territory and tips on how to make a land acknowledgement, visit our Land Acknowledgement webpage.


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