The CAIR program is animated by an overarching research question: What does Indigenous relationality make towards knowledges and societies?

The overarching goal of the partnership grant is to provide spaces for Indigenous scholars and community partners to critically explore relationality in localized contexts and engage in collaborative, applied forms of inquiry and knowledge mobilization surrounding relationality at intersocietal scales. Each of the 25 projects within this program will respond to this question through one of three core themes:

1. theorizing and transforming Indigenous governance systems;
2. critical, local, and global approaches to Indigenous relationality; and
3. honouring our elders and training our youth through intergenerational knowledge transfer.

We are pleased to support scholars and partners from across eight distinct Indigenous traditions from at least 17 Indigenous communities, and scholarly backgrounds in political science, Indigenous studies, literary studies, film, nursing, technoscience, women's studies, archaelogy, education, sociology, religion, anthropology and history.

Take a look at our upcoming sub-projects: