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Current Projects
Current Projects
Since accepting a Canada Research Chair in 2024, four major projects have emerged in my work with community. Projects featured as a part of this are demarcated with the symbol to the right.
Other ongoing projects follow below.
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Michif Children's Literature: Storytelling with the Aunties
Michif Children's Literature: Storytelling with the Aunties
The project aim is to create as a community a series of Michif children’s book series written by generations of Michif women to nourish the Michif learning spirit of children (of all ages) with Michif language, stories, values and Metis women’s ways of being, doing and thinking and place-based knowledge. This is one of the community projects supported by SILR.
Click here to learn more about these books and how to access them!
Visiting Aunties Lodge at Amiskwaciy Academy
Visiting Aunties Lodge at Amiskwaciy Academy
Alongside Dr. Trudy Cardinal, Amiskwaciy leadership, Aunties and young Indigenous women, we have for the past four years been co-creating a permanent Visiting Auntie Lodge cultural space to gather, to learn and to be together in enacting our women’s kinship praxis as embodied theory.
Rematriating genealogies, photos and story mapping of Metis women's resistance, kinship and lands along the South Saskatchewan River homelands
Rematriating genealogies, photos and story mapping of Metis women's resistance, kinship and lands along the South Saskatchewan River homelands
This is the ongoing heartbeat of my Canada Research Chair in Metis Relations and Land-based pedagogy. It guides each artery of the research projects. Alongside generations of Metis community members, Knowledge Keepers, family, River women collective, and Metis students over the past five years, we have been documenting five generations of Metis women-centered kinship through oral stories, photos, genealogies, archival records, Michif language, community-centered methodologies, and place-based land-maps. Over the past year, Chantal Roy-Denis has been generously contributing to the project with her community archival and curating expertise and passion for amplifying a Metis feminist historical kinship perspective.
Laa Tayr, Nutr Shantii, Nutr Paarentii
Laa Tayr, Nutr Shantii, Nutr Paarentii
Land, Métis Health and Well-Being, and Relationality
Project co-leads are Metis-health and wellbeing community engaged scholars: Cindy Gaudet, PhD, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Lisa Vaughn, PhD, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Keith King, PhD Faculty Nursing, Faculty of Nursing.
This project aims to:
a) co-create with inter-disciplinary Metis health scholars a land-based pedagogical prototype that promotes intercultural Metis-distinct health curriculum;
b) amplify the cultural relationship among Aunties and Indigenous girls and young women;
c) foster knowledge exchange and sharing with Indigenous health-centered colleagues at the Universidad de Antioquia and at the Indigenous health program Wâpanachakos Indigenous Health Program at the University of Alberta.
The project is a part of CAIR directed by Dr. Shalene Jobin.
Resurgent Foundation(s) within Settler Colonial Walls? Indigenous- Led Inquiry of Mandatory Indigenous Courses
Resurgent Foundation(s) within Settler Colonial Walls? Indigenous- Led Inquiry of Mandatory Indigenous Courses
2022-Ongoing
Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Jana-Rae Yerxa
Funded by the Racial Equity Special Grants program through the Spencer Foundation (2022-2025)
Mamâhtâwihew: Returning to Métis and Cree Aunties’ and Kokum’s wisdom in response to the calls for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Mamâhtâwihew: Returning to Métis and Cree Aunties’ and Kokum’s wisdom in response to the calls for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
2020-Ongoing as Auntie's Visiting Lodge
UAlberta-ATA Research Collaboration Grant
Research Team: Drs. Cindy Gaudet, and Trudy Cardinal (Associate Professor, Education)
Project funded by Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) (December 2020 and ongoing)
Métis Women’s Sovereignty in the South Saskatchewan River Region
Métis Women’s Sovereignty in the South Saskatchewan River Region
2020-Ongoing
2020-Ongoing
Joint Alberta-Saskatchewan University Research Collaboration Grant program
Joint Alberta-Saskatchewan University Research Collaboration Grant program
Project funded by Kule Institute for Advanced Study and the College of Arts & Science (September 2020 and ongoing)
Project funded by Kule Institute for Advanced Study and the College of Arts & Science (September 2020 and ongoing)
Completed Projects
Completed Projects
Centering Indigenous Women’s Wellness Governance in the Academy: Interrupting Hyperproductivity Burnout
Centering Indigenous Women’s Wellness Governance in the Academy: Interrupting Hyperproductivity Burnout
2022-2025
2022-2025
Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Lana Whiskeyjack, Audrey Medawosh (Research assistant), and Amanda Almond (Project coordinator)
Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Tricia McGuire-Adams, Lana Whiskeyjack, Audrey Medawosh (Research assistant), and Amanda Almond (Project coordinator)
Project funded by the SSHRC Insight Grant program (2022-2026)
Project funded by the SSHRC Insight Grant program (2022-2026)
Indigenous Women in the Academy During the Time of Reconciliation
Indigenous Women in the Academy During the Time of Reconciliation
2019-2020
2019-2020
Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Jennifer Ward, and Tricia McGuire-Adams.
Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Jennifer Ward, and Tricia McGuire-Adams.
The first phase of the project brought together Indigenous women scholars across disciplines at the University of Alberta to learn from one another and discuss the implications and challenges of reconciliation and our roles as women in these efforts.
The first phase of the project brought together Indigenous women scholars across disciplines at the University of Alberta to learn from one another and discuss the implications and challenges of reconciliation and our roles as women in these efforts.
Funded by KULE Dialogue, University of Alberta. (2019)
Funded by KULE Dialogue, University of Alberta. (2019)
This led to a second phase of Dreaming Our Codes of Wellness into Being. This second phase is funded by University of Alberta Vice President Research Fund, Campus Saint-Jean and Faculty of Extension (2020).
This led to a second phase of Dreaming Our Codes of Wellness into Being. This second phase is funded by University of Alberta Vice President Research Fund, Campus Saint-Jean and Faculty of Extension (2020).
Fostering Land Based Food Initiatives as a Local Food Security Strategy in Northern Indigenous Communities in Canada
Fostering Land Based Food Initiatives as a Local Food Security Strategy in Northern Indigenous Communities in Canada
2018-2023
Project lead: Dr. Michael Robidoux, University of Ottawa
Research team: Drs. Cindy Gaudet, Courtney Mason and Research Assistants.
Project funded by SSHRC (2018-2023)
Photo: Left to right: Dr. Michael Robidoux, Anthony Chum (local food developper Moose Cree FN, Cindy Gaudet & Celeste Ferreira (UofO student)
Learning the role of Métis women kinship systems in achieving family, community and land wellness
Learning the role of Métis women kinship systems in achieving family, community and land wellness
2018-2020
2018-2020
This community-engaged project brought together Métis women from six neighbouring communities along the South Saskatchewan River through various gatherings. While the formal project is completed, this work is ongoing as part of CRC, specifically in relation to the Auntie cultural role.
This community-engaged project brought together Métis women from six neighbouring communities along the South Saskatchewan River through various gatherings. While the formal project is completed, this work is ongoing as part of CRC, specifically in relation to the Auntie cultural role.
Métis community collaborators: SS River Design, Friends of Batoche, St. Louis, Saskatchewan Metis Local.
Métis community collaborators: SS River Design, Friends of Batoche, St. Louis, Saskatchewan Metis Local.
Research Assistants: Danielle Charest & Hannah Bouvier, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta students
Research Assistants: Danielle Charest & Hannah Bouvier, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta students
Project was funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research Catalyst Grant (2018-2020)
Photo: Cindy Gaudet, Leah Dorion, Brenda Hryciuk, and Anna Flaminio at the Métis women's Tea Teachings workshop, River Road Festival.
Project was funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research Catalyst Grant (2018-2020)
Photo: Cindy Gaudet, Leah Dorion, Brenda Hryciuk, and Anna Flaminio at the Métis women's Tea Teachings workshop, River Road Festival.
Lii Kaart Project: Michif Language Revitalization Research Project
Lii Kaart Project: Michif Language Revitalization Research Project
2018-2019
2018-2019
Two phases of this creative and collaborative project with Michif speaking female Matriarchs from St. Louis, SK, was funded by Campus Saint-Jean's Creative Research Fund (2018-2019)
Two phases of this creative and collaborative project with Michif speaking female Matriarchs from St. Louis, SK, was funded by Campus Saint-Jean's Creative Research Fund (2018-2019)
The project supported the creation of an interactive learning tool, Lii Kaart aen Michif and accompanying educational resources translated in French, English. Our theme: Play, Learn and Visit continues to be shared in schools and homes across western Canada.
The project supported the creation of an interactive learning tool, Lii Kaart aen Michif and accompanying educational resources translated in French, English. Our theme: Play, Learn and Visit continues to be shared in schools and homes across western Canada.
Lii Faam Michif research team: Doris McDougall, Angela Rancourt, Métis educator, Cindy Gaudet, and the late and loving Marlene Vandale.
Lii Faam Michif research team: Doris McDougall, Angela Rancourt, Métis educator, Cindy Gaudet, and the late and loving Marlene Vandale.
Photo: Michif Matriarch, Doris McDougall, daughter of Marie Anne (Lepine) and Mederic McDougall.
Photo: Michif Matriarch, Doris McDougall, daughter of Marie Anne (Lepine) and Mederic McDougall.
Lii Kaart aen Michif project launch at the Métis River Road Festival, St. Louis, SK (2018).
Lii Kaart aen Michif project launch at the Métis River Road Festival, St. Louis, SK (2018).
Indigenous Women in the academy during the time of reconciliation
Indigenous Women in the academy during the time of reconciliation
2019
2019
Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Jennifer Ward, and Tricia McGuire-Adams.
Research team: Cindy Gaudet, Jennifer Ward, and Tricia McGuire-Adams.
The first phase of the project brought together Indigenous women scholars across disciplines at the University of Alberta to learn from one another and discuss the implications and challenges of reconciliation and our roles as women in these efforts.
The first phase of the project brought together Indigenous women scholars across disciplines at the University of Alberta to learn from one another and discuss the implications and challenges of reconciliation and our roles as women in these efforts.
Funded by KULE Dialogue, University of Alberta. (2019)
Funded by KULE Dialogue, University of Alberta. (2019)
This led to a second phase of Dreaming Our Codes of Wellness into Being. This second phase is funded by University of Alberta Vice President Research Fund, Campus Saint-Jean and Faculty of Extension (2020).
This led to a second phase of Dreaming Our Codes of Wellness into Being. This second phase is funded by University of Alberta Vice President Research Fund, Campus Saint-Jean and Faculty of Extension (2020).
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