Building on current on-reserve and urban research on language revitalization: this research will use a multigenerational approach and work in partnership with Indigenous communities to identify goals and best practices for education and language planning.
Queen’s scholar and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Dylan Robinson leads first successful effort to replace misappropriated song from copyrighted opera.
Documenting Indigenous public arts across North America and fostering the creation of new art in public spaces: this research examines the ways in which Indigenous public arts confront the colonial erasure of Indigenous histories.
Applying Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to research involving social and environmental justice and health equity: this research aims to create healthier relationships between Indigenous peoples and Settler (non-Indigenous) Canadians by advancing recognition, responsibility and reconciliation in community-driven and participatory ways.
Indigenous peoples have been historically excluded from land use planning, and Dr. Leela Viswanathan discusses the successes and continuing challenges of building relationships between governments and Indigenous communities.
Queen's researcher Norman Vorano, Curator of Indigenous Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Queen’s National Scholar, is a leading figure in the study of Inuit art and its evolving political and cultural landscape in the Arctic.