Indigenous Peoples & Decolonization

Awarded Grants

• SHRF Align Grant (2024-2025) - Dr. Andrew Eaton (PI) $10,000. Project title: Engaging Indigenous communities in cognitive remediation group therapy
• SWRC Community Grant (2024-2026) - Dr. Andrew Eaton $10,000. Project title: : Indigenizing Cognitive Remediation Group Therapy: A Two-Eyed Seeing Approach
• Subgrant: SSHRC Team Grant (2022-2023) - Dr. Raven Sinclair (Co-Director), Dr. A. LaVallee (PI) $49,600. Project title: Indigenous specific racism in the academy: Co-design for action-oriented change
• SSHRC Insight Grant (2020-2025) - Dr. Michele Sorensen (Co-I), Rita Irwin (PI) (UBC) $45,000. Project title: Subgrant: Retracing, reimagining and reconciling our roots 
• SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (2025-2026) - Dr. Michele Sorensen (PI) $9,500. Project title: Learning with the land

• CIHR Planning Grant (2020-2021) - Dr. Raven Sinclair (Co-I), Bernadette Iahtail (PI) (Creating Hope Society of Alberta) $75,000. Project title: Creating Safe Paths for Indigenous Women, Girls, and LGBTQ2SA+ Individuals in Edmonton and Area

• CIHR Project Grant (2019-2023) - Dr. Raven Sinclair (Co-I), Dr. Alexandra King and Dr. Malcolm King (PIs) (University of Saskatchewan) $1,185,207. Project title: Indigenous Knowledge Development Centres with a focus on Wellness - miyo-pimâtisiwin

• CIHR Project Grant (2019-2024) - Dr. Raven Sinclair (Co-I), Elias, B. et al. (PIs) (University of Saskatchewan) $1,071,007. Project title: Wuniska! Indigenous Centre on HIV/HCV/STBBI Inequities

• SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-2021) - Dr. Raven Sinclair (PI) $76,145. Project title: A genealogical study of indigenous adoption in Canada: A multifaceted examination of events in the removal of Indigenous children with a concentration on child welfare policy shifts between 1950 and 1985

• CIHR Operating Grant (2014-2020) Dr. Bonnie Jeffery (Co-I), Dr. Nuelle Novik (Co-I), Dr. Sylvia Abonyi and Dr. Sarah Oosman (PIs) (University of Saskatchewan) $1,235,649. Project title: Wuskiwiy-tan! Let's Move! Aging well in a northern Saskatchewan Métis Community

• SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-2021) - Dr. Raven Sinclair (Co-I), Dr. Cindy Hanson (PI) (University of Regina) $42,467. Project title: Reconciling perspectives and building public memory: learning from the independent assessment process

Publications

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Kenny, K.S., Frank, K., Lavallee, B., Burton, M., Dreaver, C., Bennett, M., Rocke, C., Brownell, M., Detillieux, G.R., Anderson, M., & Urquia, M.L. (2026).The association of child removal by child protective services and mortality among First Nations and non-First Nations mothers in Canada: a retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00278-6.

Triggs, V., Leddy, S., Sorensen, M., Rallis, N., Irwin, R., & Lin, C.-C. (2025). 100 Days of Acknowledging Land: The Medicine Wheel in A/r/tographic Fieldwork. Women, Gender & Research, 38(1), 226–240. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v38i1.152166

Kenny, K.S., Wall-Wieler, E., Morgan, C., Frank, K., Burton, M., Dreaver, C., Champagne, M., Bennett, M., Rocke, C., Brownell, M., Anderson, M. & Urquia, M.L. (2023). Infant rates of child protective service contact and termination of parental rights by First Nations status from 1998-2019: An example of intergenerational transmission of colonial harm. Child Abuse and Neglect Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106760

Publications: Books & Chapters

Janisch, T., Triggs, V. & Sorensen, M. D. (2024). Overfull: The immateriality of walking. In (Eds.) N. Lee, M. Mosavarzadeh, J. Ursino & R. L. Irwin, Material and digital a/r/tographic explorations: Walking matters. Springer

Koops, S., Triggs, V. & Sorensen, M. D. (2024). Mapping five months of treaty walking: Practicing reconciliation. In (Eds.) N. Rallis, K. Morimoto, V. Triggs, M. D. Sorensen & R. L. Irwin, Eco-pedagogical walking: Decolonizing place through kinship, nature & relationality. Intellect.

Sorensen, M.D., & Triggs, V. (accepted). The pedagogical forces of land and art in graduate school a/r/tography. In K. Coleman, A. MacDonald, P, & Cook and Healy, (Eds). Learning Through Art: Speculative Pasts and Pedagogical Imaginaries. INSEA

Triggs, V. & Sorensen, M. D. (2024). Walking to where the grid breaks up: Accessing the aesthetic. In (Eds.) N. Rallis, K. Morimoto, V. Triggs, M. D. Sorensen & R. L. Irwin, Eco-pedagogical walking: Decolonizing place through kinship, nature & relationality. Intellect.