Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality (CAIR), is a network of scholars, organizations, and community partners committed to exploring the concept of Indigenous relationality in the breadth of Indigenous traditions and their overlapping connections. As humanity faces unprecedented crises at local and global scales, there is a need to explore and draw on a multitude of resources to respond to questions of how we might exist in relation to one another, to non-human entities, and to the living earth in generative and sustainable ways.

The Prairie Indigenous Philosophy Project (PIPP) was PIRN’s central research project from 2017 - 2022, though many of us also work collectively on other initiatives and our network is advancing and growing through the development of our Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality (CAIR) initiative.

The Indigenous Buffalo Research Institute (IBRI) works to promote implementation of the Buffalo Treaty, its values, and its periodic resolutions. The Institute takes a holistic eco-cultural approach to achieving this goal through initiatives in education, conservation, culture, economic, health, and research.

The Relational Governance Project led by Dr. Matthew Wildcat at UAlberta looks at how First Nations create forms of shared jurisdiction with each other.