Welcome To
Braiding Knowledges Canada (BKC)
Formerly the Canadian Mountain Network
Leading Reconciliation through Research by Braiding Indigenous and Western Ways of Knowing.
We are thrilled to unveil our new identity!
Braiding Knowledges Canada (BKC) is a not-for-profit corporation established in 2024 to continue the ground-breaking work of the Canadian Mountain Network (CMN), extending its impact beyond mountain landscapes across Canada.
We have a broader focus which covers monitoring and understanding environmental changes to inform conservation, restoration, and adaptation strategies. Our ultimate goal is to enhance the well-being of All Our Relations, encompassing the land, humans, plants, animals, and all living and non-living forms.
This rebrand is a reflection of our expanded mission and evolution as an organization. We are building on the groundbreaking work of CMN, with a renewed commitment to leading Reconciliation through Research, elevating Indigenous and local knowledge in public policy, and enhancing holistic environmental, social and cultural understanding, by braiding Indigenous and Western knowledge systems. We are the same great team, continuing to provide support and working on the ground with Indigenous researchers, communities, government, as well as many diverse partners.
Braiding Knowledges Canada is supported by a five-year grant from the Government of Canada's Strategic Science Fund (SSF) from 2024-2029.
Our Purpose
BKC is dedicated to Reconciliation through Research and focuses on understanding and monitoring environmental change to inform conservation, restoration, and adaptation strategies. This is all in pursuit of our shared goal: to enhance the well-being of our environment and its people.
Our Mission
Braiding Knowledges Canada advances Reconciliation through Research by enhancing the influence of self-determined, place-based, and co-produced knowledge within Canada’s science culture such that, over time and on a path towards reconciliation, Indigenous and local knowledge approaches equitably contribute to public policy, decision-making, and the advancement of federal science priorities.
Our Vision
To influence public policy and decision-making, advance Reconciliation through Research, and enhance the understanding of environmental, social and cultural change across Canada, through the braiding of Indigenous and Western knowledges.
Our Core Values
All Our Relations
Mutual Respect & Positive Reciprocity
Relevance & Impact
Focus, Collaboration, and Innovation
What is Braiding Knowledges?
Why Braid Knowledges?
Thanks to Our Partners:
Sustaining Partner and Host Institution
