{"id":15,"date":"2020-09-02T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:44:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are We?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row-reverse mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Who Are We?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rebuilding First Nations Governance Project (RFNG) is a national alliance of First Nation communities and Tribal Councils, academic researchers and public sector practitioners created to support First Nations that have made the decision to transition from the Indian Act to their own inherent rights governance. This six-year applied action research project is supported by a $2.5M SSHRC Partnership Grant awarded in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2025\/10\/RFNG-Feeding-The-Fire-2025-Victoria-606-1024x387.jpg\" alt=\"A group shot of RFNG project members at the Feeding Our Fire gathering in Victoria, BC.\" class=\"wp-image-1941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2025\/10\/RFNG-Feeding-The-Fire-2025-Victoria-606-1024x387.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2025\/10\/RFNG-Feeding-The-Fire-2025-Victoria-606-512x193.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2025\/10\/RFNG-Feeding-The-Fire-2025-Victoria-606-320x121.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2025\/10\/RFNG-Feeding-The-Fire-2025-Victoria-606-768x290.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2025\/10\/RFNG-Feeding-The-Fire-2025-Victoria-606-1536x580.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2025\/10\/RFNG-Feeding-The-Fire-2025-Victoria-606-2048x774.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by project co-founders Satsan (Centre for First Nations Governance), Frances Abele (Carleton University) and Catherine MacQuarrie, the project includes partnerships with six First Nations and two Tribal Councils, six Canadian universities, three non-governmental organizations and 35 academic researchers and practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Click on the buttons below to learn more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fdcfc74e wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/origins\/\">Learn More About the Project<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/our-team\/\">See Who is Involved<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/partners-and-participants\">See Our Partners &amp; Participants<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have an amazing team of researchers and practitioners from across Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1127,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rfng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}