Welcome!

We are excited for you to dive into how we are supporting Indigenous knowledge building!

Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality Logo

Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality (CAIR), is a research network program dedicated to exploring the concept of Indigenous relationality in the breadth of Indigenous traditions and their overlapping connections. CAIR is an initiative hosted by the Prairie Relationality Network (PRN), which is based out of Canada.

We aim to answer: What contributions does Indigenous relationality make towards knowledges and societies?
LEARN MORE

Check out the latest Publications by CAIR Network Members

Ranging from book chapters to journal articles, our CAIR Network members are leading conversations within Indigenous studies.

Journal Article: Straddling Boundaries, Rebuilding Relations: Queer Indigenous Governance in Blackfoot Territory

2025

Ryan Crosschild

TOPIA

READ NOW

Report: Annotated Bibliography of Indigenous Relationality

2025

Matt Wildcat (PI), Shalene Jobin and Jessie Loyer (Co-PIs), Student Researchers: Mailys Paccoud, Ryan O'Toole, Kyla Lindsay, Tamara Blesse, Lexi House, Claire Neilson, Kelsey Dokis-Jansen, and Abigail Lee

Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality Project

READ NOW

Journal Article: Blackfoot legal traditions, treaty-making, and non-territorial forms of settler jurisdiction? Niitsitapi oral histories of Treaty 7

2025

Michael Fabris

Environment and Society D: Planning and Space

READ NOW

Book Chapter: Indigenous geographies and the (un)reconcilability of academia? Challenges for making geography a more hospitable space for Indigenous scholars.

2024

Michael Fabris

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

READ NOW

Journal Article: Articulating Indigenous Law as “Environmental Protection”? The Piikani Nation and the Oldman River Dam Environmental Assessment Review Process

2023

Michael Fabris

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

READ NOW

Report: A Vision of the Nation

2024

Dr. Kurtis Boyer, Dr. Daniel Voth, Darrelyne Bickel

University of Saskatchewan

READ NOW
See More

CAIR News

New Annotated Bibliography of Indigenous Relationality Released
Tracy Howlett
June 26, 2026
Read more
Indigenous Relationality in Networks of Care and Accountability
Renee McBeth
May 2025
Dr. McBeth discusses how the concept of relationality can re-orient and/or co-exist with hegemonic practice.
Read more
Relationality Around The World
Ryan O'Toole
August 2024
Delve into Ryan's reflection on travels to Bodø, Norway, for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) annual research conference.
Read more
See More