About Us
Welcome to our learning constellation. Learn more about who we are and the work we do.
Our Vision
Through our work, we seek to:
1) Improve the lives of Indigenous individuals and families by living our knowledges, languages, and food/medicine ways.
2) Enable Indigenous communities to uphold their ancestral responsibilities to their lands and waters.
3) Bolster and amplify Indigenous resurgence actions to improve wellbeing of Indigenous communities.
Our Approach
Our methodologies are necessarily diverse, drawing primarily from Indigenous theory/praxis and secondarily from a variety of Western academic disciplines (e.g., anthropology, linguistics, ethnobotany). Western theories and methods are strategically involved in the research when useful and generative. A key concept employed is Lived Research. In her award-winning book, We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies, Hoopa scholar Cutcha Risling Baldy demonstrates a Lived Research methodology that involves living and working in community, working with one’s own extended family, and participating directly and intentionally in the practice of cultural reclamation. CORR builds upon this approach through a “Living Indigenous Knowledges” approach, where “living” describes Lived Research and the recognition that our knowledges, languages, and the land are active participants in our resurgence. This work feeds our connection to our first relations (plants, animals, water, etc.) and builds knowledge through cultural practice, dialoging, theorizing, and reflection within and across communities.
Who We Are
Get to know each of the stars in the learning constellation and the work they are doing to revitalize Indigenous lands, waters, languages, and cultures.
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