 We have, to me, it's a very special group of people. This next one is on partnerships. And it will last through the noon hour. We have several speakers. We have the beginning. A partnership going on between Circle, which I co-directed and is co-directed with Anna, half the hoofed navel's there, and with Miranda Brady, and with Gehende, who couldn't be with us here today, or in Miller. And Anna will do the formal introductions and tell you about a project that we're involved in, where we are in partnership with Sarah Rourke, who's from Aquasocene, from the Native American Traveling College. And we're doing the best in our hearts, in our way, as we find our way along the way to build a relationship that will be enduring and mutually beneficial and model the good practices that are so important that are being brought up here today. So with that, Anna hoofed navel's. Thank you. Thank you, John. I want to thank all of the elders who've been sharing their wisdom with us for the past few mornings. I know, as I've been sitting listening to them, it's just been such an enriching experience to be able to listen to their words. So thank you, Miigwech, to all of the elders and those who are yet to speak to us. It's a real privilege to be here as part of the research team for this project, but also as a faculty member here at Carleton. I think the CURUP is an awesome initiative that's been developed here at Carleton, and I'm glad to see so many people participating in it. So thank you for coming here. What we're going to do today for this session, there's three separate parts to this presentation. So it's not a keynote, it's not one person speaking. But what we wanted to do in this part of the program for CURUP is to talk about partnerships, developing partnerships, how to negotiate with communities. Sometimes communities reach out to researchers and sometimes researchers reach into communities. So we have two different models of research partnerships that have been developed at different stages of development. We're talking more at the preliminary stages of we're in the process of developing research projects. The second presentation is a project that has a longer history than ours. And then we're going to follow it up with some words of wisdom from the secretariat. So try counsel stuff. So I'm serving multiple roles as facilitator of this session, but also as a researcher as part of this research project. So the Native North American Traveling College, the NAA, I keep saying that, double N-A-T-C. Yes, and the Center for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education. So the team members, just to kind of give you a sense of who we are. Sarah, let me get my papers out here. Gunwah-Hahawi, Vork. She's the Director of the Native North American Traveling College. And I'm going to read a bit of her biography because I've gotten to know her as just a really wonderful person. But as you learn more about her, you will discover what an amazing person she is beyond just a lovely person. She is of the Agwasesne Mohawk Nation and belongs to the deer clan. She's the wife of Agwa. As a long-house woman, I'm going to slaughter that. Gunwah-Hahawi strives to set a good path for the future generations. She's the Manager of the Native North American Traveling College, a cultural center and museum that focuses on cultural revitalization, education and dispelling stereotypes of First Nations people. She's a strong advocate of research in the areas of culture as prevention and intervention. She continues to explore proactive approaches to filling gaps and creating safe learning environments for Indigenous students while meeting their cultural needs. Gunwah-Hahawi is the President of the Jun Guan Adeo... Oh, no, the Onakwe Board that runs the Jun Guan Adeo Heritage Site that is a community center for cultural education, planting and youth activities. She's traveled to the U.N. Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues for 2013 and 14 with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network to read statements on sexual health, environmental violence, policing and justice and good governance. She was also able to provide youth mentorship to the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. She's a proud mentor to the Indigenous Young Women's Council. Gunwah-Hahawi is also an ally and advocate for the LGBTQ as she proactively provides and promotes safe spaces for our youth and community. She was also one of the lead organizers in assisting to bring the walking with our sister's art installation to Aguasassini in November 2015. And she just graduated with a Master's in Environmental Leadership with a Master's in Educational Leadership at St. Lawrence University. So congratulations on finishing your degree. That is awesome. And it's amazing that you managed to do that on top of everything else. The other... Again, an amazing person. And so nice. The other people on this panel, on this research team, Miranda Brady, who's at my far left, your right, associate professor in communications here at Carleton. She can elaborate on her biography as she might like to or not. I know she's very involved in researching Indigenous activism in the 1960s and 70s. To her our right is everybody knows Cleo's John Medicine Horace Kelly. So he's also been very involved in this research project. And somebody who could not be here, but has also been very instrumental is Gauhande Horne Miller. She is Mohawk Gauhande and she has also been contributing. She prepared a short video for us to share with you for this presentation today because she recognizes the importance of sharing her wisdom and having her voice heard. So first, a little bit about who we are. And I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this background information, but the Center for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education it's a mouthful. We tend to call ourselves CIRCLE, which has so many symbolic meanings, but it's really just a quick way of saying it's a group of faculty, researchers and students and staff who are interested in Indigenous research here at Carleton University. And our mandate really is to try to bridge and promote research with Indigenous peoples and also to help indigenize the Academy here at Carleton. So with a real focus, we complement the work of the Center for Aboriginal Culture and Education which works on student programming. We try to kind of foster a sense of research collaboration and partnering with communities. And we've done a lot of initiatives here on campus, especially in the past few years. Every year, for the past three or four years, we've had a student conference, so giving it a platform for students to share their research. We've done film screenings. We've done special talks. We had Leanne Simpson here this past year, for example, so really trying to build a sense of Indigenous priorities here at Carleton University. And the four of us, the four co-directors, have been very proactive in trying to initiate and kind of build that community here on campus. And we were quite fortunate that what was it, two years ago now, Sarah reached out to Carleton University and thought this would be maybe there's some research initiatives that we might be able to partner with. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time on Circle. We're trying to do a lot of really good work. I think we've been successful and I think we also have a lot more work to do. And I think these kinds of forums here with Curip is a good place for us. I'm going to now pass it over to Sarah, who's going to talk about the Native North American Travelling College. And her ideas, she reached out to Carleton University. She actually contacted Darlene Gilson, who was a research officer. She had some ideas for research and the marriage was I don't know, it wasn't a ranged marriage, but Darlene was instrumental. So Well, thank you so much for that lovely introduction. As she said, my name is Sarah Gungahawi Rourke. I'm the deer of the deer clan. I have the privilege of being the director of the Native North American Travelling College. We were founded in 1969 by Ernest Benedict, who has been an amazing forerunner in cultural education, community activism. He was really such an amazing role model for many, many Indigenous youth of his time. And he's made, he's set precedents in our communities for speaking his truth and his voice. So in 1969, he packed up a van of resources and started traveling around to other Indigenous nations, teaching and learning about what it is to be Indigenous, what it is to combat those stereotypes and misconceptions and misrepresentations in the media about who we are and to speak that truth. And it ended up turning into a small home on Cornwall Island where many elders gathered and we had a replica village. And the heyday of the Travelling College was in the 70s where people would come and sit around a wood stove or they would sit in the village and they would learn and sing and share in cultural practices and began to remove that shame of what it is to be Indigenous and to really show that pride. And I'm proud to be walking in the footsteps of all my predecessors when it comes to the Travelling College because the work is so important. It is important for us to be real and to persevere against all of the odds that are against us when it comes to working in this two-world system. So for the Travelling College, we do a lot of things in community such as print publications to distribute to cultural education centers and to all education centers from day care to elder homes. We have a travel troupe that goes into those schools and does those dance presentations and really tries to reinstate that knowledge. We try to have a language component as much as possible. We have social song and dance CD release parties. We have exhibits every year for a year, every quarter. Our curriculum and our work plan is developed it coincides with the ceremonial seasons and our growing seasons. So it's very natural. It's very organic in how we conduct ourselves in community and we try to support all of our community artists. Many, many famous artists from Aqua's Destiny have come through the doors of the Travelling College. Many leaders amazing public speakers in our community have been able to be a part of travel troupe, have been able to sing and dance in that travel troupe and to speak on our history and our culture. We have a small museum and we also have a very large archive which has gone untouched for quite some time. Our AV techs and our media coordinators are documenting our every move at the college to make sure that we continue to bring this knowledge to all of our future generations. And because of this we have a mission. We have an idea and with Carlton's help we're going to make this come to fruition. And I'm really excited to see where it goes because at this point our research is at a standstill. We have many closets filled with VHS and cassettes and real to real and they're all the voices of our elders. We want to reconnect to our elders, especially those who have passed on. And the hurt that happens when our elders leave us is not just the hurt of losing a person but it's also losing all of that knowledge and so deeply ingrained in us and as we sit and we soak up things like a sponge when we sit in ceremony or we sit in council or we sit in community not all of that information can be retained. So with the help of Circle I feel that we are really going to move forward in digitizing and making an accessible database for community but as well for researchers and be able to draw those very distinct lines of ethical practices and the importance of research in our community is for our young students who are coming through who really want to bridge that gap between native and non-native research and where can we find and meet that common ground in the middle and where the knowledge comes together and it can be really proactive for all because I feel like our educational approaches are very holistic and for us it's really a balance of finding out how we can live with with all of that knowledge and actually make it action. I know there's a lot of us doing research where we're trying to revitalize those teachings in any way that we can whether it's basketry or beadwork or wampum making or whatever quilting there's so many different things but every single one of those things has a component to it that's a traditional knowledge that's a language, that's a historical knowledge, it's political implications it's emotional it's spiritual, it's ceremonial there's so many different components of that one act of making a basket that we have to look at all of that and if we can look at it, examine it and make it accessible for community so they can carry it on then that's what we need to be doing and that's what we're going to be doing so I'm really excited to see where it goes and we're just at the beginning stages of this and we have a really great cohesive unit within community at this point and I know Gahanda is going to talk about bringing in community and the whole reason that we do this is for community I was raised in a community where we look at the next seven generations we look at how my road and my name is Gwanghawai which means they gave her the road and this is the road that I'm going to travel on that's going to lead the path for our children and so on and so on so if I can do that in any way that's possible through publications and media and databases however it is most accessible because at this point our youth are very linked in they're very much social media kids they're very much they need to find something in an instant it needs to be accessible or they're not interested so we need to meet our youth instead of trying to teach them how to learn like we do so I think with this database it's going to be able to open those doors for them to have more accessible learning I'll probably add more later but that's where I'm at at this point and I'm really excited to see how this partnership is going to grow and what we can really make of it because at this point there's so much to see in our collections and it's 40 years of collecting data so to be able to move forward with that and I would like to hear my elders speak again even if it's on a video thank you my name is John Kelly of course as you probably know Cleol's my height and name and what Sarah is saying about the archive well a funny thing happened on the way to Akkasasini while we were there we got shown a room and something very dear to my heart because I began my career in working with native communities in British Columbia recording languages stories and songs would make two recordings when I recorded we installed equipment so the bands could record their own elders but the materials I recorded I keep a copy in our basement that's starting back there and the copy stays with the community and I'm honor bound by my word that the copy that we keep in our basement will never be used by anybody other than the community it's not ours it's theirs it's turned out to be extremely valuable one community that would sue it and called me one day a few years ago to say that some 40 CDs worth of material have been deleted by a technician who thought a computer was useless and it was gone and she said John is there anything we can do and say yes I've got the other copy so we copied all 40 of those and Darlene and I actually hand delivered Darlene back there sitting in the back with the silver here and she says quit talking we actually hand delivered those to the community and so that's very very near and dear to my heart as a member of CIRCL is one of the founders of what is today's CIRCL when we were at Akasasani I saw a stack of 16 millimeter films no projector yet but the films are there the voices of the elders that the community needs so badly are there and preserved and ready to be transcribed and put to use digitized and put to work and that's something that will be dear to my heart when that part of the project is underway and so I counted a privilege to be here I counted a privilege always to be part of any effort to bring community work together with what has been called academia that is in the process of changing right now in the ways that it does things to work with communities and to begin to to take part in the process of heeding our cultures and bringing them back together so as I say it's quite an honor to be working with Sarah Howa Thank you Thank you I'll keep my remarks very brief but I want to just reiterate that it's quite an honor to be working with this team and to be associated with this project it's quite exciting and I should say there's a number of different projects that are coming out of this and so as we sat down to talk about what the priorities were for the Native North American Traveling College we also started to trace out a research agenda as we were going through so of course we'll work as guided by the Native North American Traveling College and the advisory board that's established through the Native North American Traveling College on all of the research that we do and all of the what Shirk likes to call the knowledge mobilization that happens so all of the articles that are published or all of the written materials that come out of it as well as the digital materials that might be for the Native North American Traveling College's workshops so their educational materials we're currently working on a couple of different projects related to the audio-video archive that John was just discussing one of those projects includes a partnership with Grasek that's a knowledge sharing tool it's the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures I had to read it because quite a long acronym but this is a knowledge sharing tool that includes digitized versions of material, culture or heritage items and so what we're hoping to do is identify ways to annotate those, the treasures really the items that are digitized in that database and think about how elders could speak to those items or how other cultural lessons could be also included in that knowledge sharing system to help mobilize those heritage items for contemporary cultural practices to keep those as part of living culture so that's one of the projects that we're currently working on so we've gotten some funding for a small pilot project and so this summer we'll be going through the audio-video collection working to digitize it using equipment that we've gotten by hook or crook bar hood stolen from various quarters and also identifying words or lessons that might be used for educational materials for the future we're also working together on a social sciences and humanities research council SHERC partnership development grant to get funding to write a history of the Native North American traveling college so it's our hope that that history could be used in ways that are accessible to the community so published perhaps in a book form or other maybe even digital components that could be accessible to remote community members who are not necessarily located in community now but also it could potentially have academic forms as well that would be accessible to our colleagues so Gaendia will discuss the governance structures that are going to guide this work one important component of that is the advisory board I mentioned and as always we're going to be using a model that really privileges the community's perspectives and of course we'll be working according to the tri-council policies as well as our own ethics board so as we're approaching knowledge keepers or elders we will of course have to have gotten ethics permission to do that so we'll be working with diversity for guidance on that as well and all of our work will be conducted appropriately in the spirit of respect and reciprocity absolutely thank you so what we're going to do now Gaendia as I said she couldn't be here but because the nature of the research that we're doing is community based and it's a partnership between two existing organizations the Native North American Traveling College and Circle as part of Carlton we do want to make sure that the community is doing so we're in the process of applying for research ethics clearance through Carlton University but in order to move forward in a respectful fashion we also want to have a group or committee or a board within the Aqua Sesame community who's going to help guide the research that we're doing to make sure that it's okay because they don't have Aqua Sesame does not have a governing board for ethics within the community so Gaendia is going to speak to the model that's being proposed that would be great so that's just a short greeting in and I wanted to say that I'm Gaendia Juan Miller and I teach in the school of Indigenous and Canadian studies and I'm happy to be able to participate in some small way in today's presentation with my colleagues who are part of Circle so what I'm going to talk about with you today is the idea of a community advisory board now with our work that we're going to be doing with Aqua Sesame what we've proposed is putting together a small community advisory board community advisory boards can be pretty much any size that you want the one that I'm accustomed to in Gaendewaage as part of the Gaendewaage Schools Diabetes Prevention Project has been comprised of anywhere from 20 to 22 members since 1996 so this has been going on for quite some time since Diabetes Prevention has been seen as a research focus for our community now if some of you are interested in learning more about Gaendewaage Schools Diabetes Prevention Project and its structure you can look it up online at ksdpp.org but here I'm going to talk to you about a small component of that which is the community advisory board and perhaps maybe it is the most important component because it is what links our community of Gaendewaage very closely and places it very directly and centrally within the research process which I know is of interest to you all here so what the community advisory board does for Gaendewaage is it's made up of ad hoc members like I said anywhere from 22 to 22 members who have come from all different areas of the community so they meet on a monthly baseness and they oversee any projects that are taking place or that are proposed that will take place in the community and so they provide what could be considered cultural, social, and community guidance on any of these projects and so some of the main tasks so far have been their participation in the creation of a vision statement and a code of research ethics which describes how the community advisory board and community researchers and academic researchers could work with one another in a respectful manner and of course this process of putting together a community advisory board is of course grassroots and so it's representative of various people and organizations throughout the community so in the past 14 years there have been over 40 volunteers and of course this is a voluntary structure it is a voluntary for anyone to participate in and the members can range in age from 26 to 80 years of age so they facilitate communication amongst all the organizations and also amongst families and make that link between the community and the researchers and the researcher itself so what they do is they also monitor and review projects that are ongoing or ones that have been proposed they're asked to review them they also participate in intervention activities they participate in the evaluation process through data collection the research process, the analysis and the interpretation they also review and approve abstracts, papers and other presentations and research proposals so any kind of final presentation that is out of the research itself they will review it and also give guidance on how that research is to be disseminated back to the community and then they also participate in representing the projects at meetings and conferences worldwide so what we're proposing for is putting together a small community advisory board I have participated in one for the project at Kahnawagi which is looking at which Dr. Keir Meyer of McGill was looking at how resilience is looked at within the community so there was five of us that were on this small community advisory board and which was separate from the larger community advisory board of KSDPP so what we did was we met on a bi-monthly basis and reviewed the project as it was going along, gave input insight reviewed the abstract reviewed the final publication as well and also gave input on how to disseminate that information back to the community so that was that's the model which we are looking at for Agus Asne's project or the one that we're going to be doing that Circle will be doing with Agus Asne so we're proposing to put together just a small community advisory board that will oversee this small project that we're working on with the community so that's a little bit of insight into what a community advisory board is and can be like I said if you're interested in learning more there are some articles out there about Knawagi's community advisory board and its efficacy you can also go onto their website which is ksdpp.org for further information in the meantime enjoy your week take care so anyway just in terms of wrapping up our part of the presentation we are very much in the preliminary stages of developing the partnership but I think the model that we've taken in terms of moving slowly consulting both parties consulting with each other developing research priorities consultation in agreement with each other recognizing the needs of the researcher the needs of the community and finding ways that we can kind of create something that will suit everybody's interests that is really what we're working towards and I think we're trying very much to be guided by best practices best practices as researchers but also looking at the best practices of the Native North American traveling college I think one of the priorities one of the larger term priorities of our research together is to be able to highlight this incredible organization with a long history and be able to celebrate it both within its community but also as a role model to other organizations other community organizations across Canada that should we be able to document the effectiveness of their programming they might be able to serve as a model for other organizations looking to do similar kind of work so in terms of programming that we're doing we are starting with the archival project that is a priority identified by the Native North American traveling college with the support of grass act we should be able to do that and I think it's a really great opportunity as researchers for us to be able to roll up our sleeves and see what's in there see what materials we have to work with and from that we can define and move forward with a different research agenda or an informed research agenda we also want to look at the programming the history of the Native North American traveling college because you can't just parcel out one part of something and think you're going to have an understanding of it and look at it in within its context so this is a longer term relationship that we're working towards building and everything that we're doing I think is based on this idea of as Sarah has kind of identified for us culture as prevention and intervention and I think that's something that's very much guiding what we're doing and thinking about it in this tripartite fashion there's the circle researchers there's the Native North American traveling college and the community advisory board who are going to oversee the work that we do to make sure it's done in an ethical and appropriate fashion so I think thinking about it in this kind of triangulation between those intersections is where the research is going to happen does anybody want to add anything before we take any questions that people may have yeah I would say this keep watching this channel stay tuned this program has been 500 years in the making and something that I said about three days ago is that the work that we are doing and you are doing and all of us are doing is going to affect generations to come and we're going to work together and the communities are the ones in charge because the resources are theirs and the culture is theirs but it's something that is long long overdue and you have a role to play in it and a person in this room have a role to play in it the only word that seems one of the few words that matters and matters the most in Haida is Yagu Dung which translates respect what we will do we will do with guidance from the creator and from all living things we will do with respect Howa We started this session a little bit late so we're a little bit off schedule but we do have time for if anybody has any questions at this point comments you want to be part of the team don't you and I must say I feel really honored as a part of the circle team the outreach came from the community and so to be able to run with that it is such a luxury and a privilege so I want to acknowledge that as well it's been fun so far Hi My name is Patricia I just have a clarification question because I do have hearing issues the website she rifled it off quite fast and I don't know where the D the B then the P is supposed to go so I know it's KS I think it's DDP KS Thank you really good work and I will stay tuned you don't need to make questions up because because there will be opportunities I know John and I will be here for the rest of the week intermittently or maybe the whole time and I know the others will be around for a while if questions do come up or if you want to ask something privately feel free to do so but maybe in the interest of making sure we have lunch in a good time I'm not going to prolong this silent space so did you want to add something I just wanted to mention that it's really important for us to fill in those gaps and provide that accessibility to community and there will be two different tracks of research one that will be accessible only to community that will include ceremonial and traditional knowledge that we won't be able to share to our friends and neighbors and researchers so there will be two sets of accessibility and boundary will be drawn very distinctly in our policies and procedures I think it's really important to show that our staff are very young and they are very motivated you see the young man with the hat that's Liongoonies Edwards and he is our AV technician and he is willing to train and to learn and to spend long hours digitizing this collection and I am so amazed at where we are now learning for the college for a very long time to have this information accessible and I can't even really fathom how many hours we have to digitize and to put into a database but we're not doing this in a way where we're not going to be learning from others around us and building on our networks and our foundations that are already existing and I think that's really important to recognize that there are people who have done work like this and we're able to learn from their processes and really build upon that to see how it will work for our individual community because each indigenous community is very specific to their life ways and their traditions and what they are going to allow for researchers to do and so we'll set that standard for aquasocene and hopefully that will help others in creating what they need for those communities and I'm really grateful for our partnerships with GRASAC and CIRCLE to make this happen. So if you ever need to contact us at the Trowelman College we do have a very active Facebook page not so active website but you can definitely get a hold of us through Facebook we have people who answer 24 hours a day for any kinds of questions when we should be not working we are so definitely contact us should you have any questions or concerns because it is really important to put that call out please fill in those gaps please let us know if you are experiencing and give us that perspective that we may not be seeing because we are in it and as we know in our own research that we often don't we often miss things because we're so immersed so if you see something that we don't please let us know because I think we are only as strong as our networks and our partners. Thank you so what I'm going to suggest as we switch over speakers you can start taking off your microphones and exit left stage you can come on stage but I think everyone else should stand up as this is happening and just stretch your bodies move around a little bit because yes