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by Katalin Eve Koller, PhD Candidate & CFICE Aligning Institutions for Community Impact RA<\/em><\/p>\n

Indigenous Peoples share a historical memory and experience with academic research fraught with destructive power relations, structural violence, and imperial politics. Many academic disciplines contributed to the expansion of European imperialism across the globe, most often treating encountered Indigenous Peoples as a \u201csavage\u201d part of the landscape \u2013 to be studied as flora or fauna. In Canada, the relationship is further complicated by the fact that until 1951, Indigenous Peoples would lose their legal and ancestral identities and the rights associated with them if they obtained a university degree \u2013 a process called \u2018enfranchisement<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Professor John Medicine Horse Kelly presenting at the 2016 Carleton University Indigenous Research Ethics Institute<\/p><\/div>\n

Since the 1990s, there has been an active movement within the academy to address these past injustices \u2013 in part thanks to the awareness generated by the eye-opening Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples<\/a> (RCAP, 1996). The RCAP laid bare to Canadians an abundance of truth regarding the history of Indigenous Peoples in this place we have come to call Canada, and the role their assimilation played in shaping the Canadian state. This awareness played a part in policy efforts to make academia more accessible and inclusive for Indigenous Peoples, and Indigenous scholars were able to assert their voices and be heard <\/em>as never before.<\/p>\n

At present, there exists a burgeoning consciousness among critical researchers of the importance of recognizing and reconciling the legacies of our shared history so that academia can benefit from the full inclusion of Indigenous perspectives throughout the performance of research. Several guidelines relating to research conducted with Indigenous collaborators have been created, including (but not limited to) the following:<\/p>\n