Research Area: Indigenous

Cape Breton University researcher Dr. Andrew Carrier is shown updating Pictou Landing First Nations students on the deer hunt tissue analyses project at the PLFN school. Dr. Ken Oakes and Dr. Carrier worked with PLFN staff to provide testing and training expertise so the band could succesfully re-engage in their traditional deer hunt.

In the picture above, Calvin Stevens, a teacher at the Eskasoni Immersion School is showing students how to make a wooden whistle. Prof. Melissa Bishop from CBU will team up with Elaine Denny, Principal of the Immersion School to explore the impacts of land-based learning on students' oral language production and comprehension competencies during the implemention of an outdoor learning space.

Eskasoni background photo courtesy of Sjoerd Witteveen

Dr. Marcia Ostashewski, (Centre for Sound Communities, CBU) and Graham Marshall (Council Member, Membertou First Nation) will lead a project to explore the potential to bring digital film and music production to Membertou to support community economic and cultural development, including Mi’kmaq language revitalization. In the background is Clifford Paul, one of the co-authors of this team's award winning paper.

In this 2021 project, Dr Jane McMillan from StFX will work to support Pam Gloade Desrochers and her colleageus at the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre to develop an artisan and entrepreneurship retail space on the Halifax Waterfront.