Why Indigenous is not viewed as a useful research category by First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples

Date: Thursday, Jan. 16
Time: 2:30–3:30 pm
Location: Arts Building Room 208, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon; and online via Zoom

Free and open to the public

About this event

Guest speaker: Dr. Caroline Tait (PhD), Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health Equity and Inclusion, professor, Faculty of Social Work, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

In her lecture, Dr. Tait will focus on specifics of non-Indigenous researchers conducting studies with First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. Dr. Tait will address three objectives:

• To understand the reasons why First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples may decide to partner with university research teams.
• To understand the history of terms such as Indian, Native, Aboriginal and Indigenous and how these have shaped academic understanding of research involving First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples.
• To understand the perspectives held by Métis, Inuit, and First Nations about distinctions-based research and knowledge translation, and how this relates to research and data sovereignty.

Caroline Tait is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Health Equity and Inclusion and is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work and Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. She holds a PhD from McGill University in Medical Anthropology and Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Tait also completed Post Doctoral work in the Department of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University and with the Aboriginal Healing Foundation. Her Canada Research Chair focuses largely on inequities in healthcare experienced by First Nations, Métis and Inuit people living with end-stage organ failure, most specifically access to organ donation and transplant medicine. Dr. Tait along with Dr. Robert Henry are the architects of the Saskatchewan Métis Research and Data Governance Principles and through the Métis research center led by Dr. Henry, they provide training on the principles to Métis communities, faculty and students. In 2024, Dr. Tait was appointed to the Board of Governors of CIHR. Dr. Tait is a Citizen of the Métis Nation Saskatchewan and works remotely from her home in Elk Ridge, Saskatchewan.

Hosted by the USask Department of Psychology and Health Studies

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