Research with and for Indigenous Peoples
Co-creating spaces where Indigenous and Western Knowledges complement each other and grow together.
Our Mission
Build a legacy with and for Indigenous Peoples that honours the impact of Indigenous Knowledges and ways of living, while showing what it means to be good relatives within and beyond community.
Our Positionality
Where we stand shapes how we build relationships, understand responsibility, and carry research together.
Led by Nêhiyaw scholar Dr. Paulina Johnson, Blue Sky Research Lab brings together researchers based at the University of Alberta.
Relationship building and Ceremony guide our work. We aim to uphold Treaty while nurturing respect, humility, love, and fun.
Research Highlight
The Auntie Is In podcast is not your typical podcast. It is a living intellectual tradition rooted in Nêhiyawak thought, storytelling, lived experience, and layered narrative methodology, while highlighting resonances and dissonances between Indigenous and Western pedagogies.
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