Fourth-year B.PAPM student Annie Kingston Miller spent the Fall term working with Mallory Whiteduck and Linda Capperauld of Carleton’s Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education, in conjunction with the Faculty of Pubic Affairs, on a research report investigating Aboriginal Research Ethics. The project highlighted current efforts at Canadian institutions and organizations to develop guidelines and offer practical experience for conducting ethical research with First Nations, Métis and Inuit groups. Despite the tremendous amount of research conducted on and with Aboriginal groups more work needs to done to ensure such research is beneficial to both Aboriginal groups and researchers.
Annie, third from left, has worked as a volunteer with the Odawa Urban Aboriginal Adult High School and spent the summer of 2012 as a junior communications officer with the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. She can converse in Inuktitut and has begun to learn Anishinaabemowin, the language of the Ojibwe people. She is depicted here with Katherine Graham, former dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs, after whom the annual Katherine A. H. Graham Lecture in Aboriginal Policy is named, current dean André Plourde, Mallory Whiteduck and Linda Capperauld.