Indigenous Research and Engagement

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Indigenous-owned and women-led, Archipel is uniquely suited to provide high quality, methodologically rigorous, and culturally sensitive Indigenous engagements on a wide variety of topic areas.

Our distinctive qualifications include:

  • Bringing many years of cumulative experience facilitating conversations and answering important research questions about Indigenous and Canadian society.
  • Highly qualified Indigenous facilitators and researchers who are informed by Indigenous methodologies and bring sensitivity, flexibility, lived experience, and ethical rigour to the unique challenge of conducting culturally sensitive engagements, both in person and virtually.
  • Engaging in critical partnerships with Indigenous community members, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers, recognizing that they are the experts in their lived experiences and worldviews.
  • Extensive experience in all aspects of Indigenous engagements: planning, project management, research coordination, facilitation, and report writing.
  • Partnering with a diverse range of clients such as the Canada Council for the Arts, Assembly of First Nations, and City of Ottawa to meet their critical research objectives.