Community-based research
Community partnership is at the heart of CIEDAR’s work. Our team partners with Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, addressing their needs by centering the strength and wisdom embedded in their ancestral traditions and teachings. These knowledges and practices are woven into surveys, land-based methods, and qualitative (e.g., talking circles or interviews) projects that allow communities to share their lives and lived experiences with academics and other communities.
Current Project
CIEDAR and Taché Waters Healing Society have partnered to co-develop an evidence- and land-based healing camp that is currently being supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s (SHHRC) Partnership Development Grant and the University of British Columbia’s Partnership Recognition and Exploration Fund. The camp will address physical and mental health disparities, as they are experienced by First Nation families living in the Northwest Territories. Reconnecting to culture and community at land-based healing camps contributes to improved health outcomes among Indigenous Peoples, allowing the community to thrive through the work done through this partnership.