Working with Indigenous Knowledge & Indigenous Knowledge Holders

This guidance document offers practical, place-based teachings for non-Indigenous researchers, decision-makers, proponents, and allies working with Indigenous Knowledge & Indigenous Knowledge holders. Co-authored by a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners and is informed by their shared experiences with knowledge sharing and knowledge co-production in Alberta.

The authors offer four guiding principles to help non-Indigenous practitioners work respectfully with Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge holders: ceremony, awareness, mutual respect, and shared governance. The four principles are all connected and, as described in the guidance document, should be implemented as an interdependent, integrated, and indivisible whole.