{"id":608,"date":"2024-12-17T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T06:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braidingknowledgescanada.ca\/?page_id=608"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:17:55","slug":"the-iron-alliance-hub","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/braidingknowledgescanada.ca\/fr\/the-iron-alliance-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Alliance Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The N\u00eahiyaw Pwat Relationship Knowledge Hub\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis Knowledge Hub explores the relationships between Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa (Chippewa), Metis, and Assiniboine (Nakoda or Stoney) peoples in present-day Treaty Six. These peoples, historically, were a polyethnic group that maintained complex reciprocal relationships that formed what was called the Iron Alliance. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Hub seeks to understand how those relations operated and thrived. Working from an Indigenous feminist perspective, its field research will include the collection of oral narratives and ethnographic accounts collected from sacred sites where medicines and knowledge has been gifted.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe intent is to uncover how the relationships within the alliance were built and maintained. It is also expected that the research may offer insights into Indigenous methods, and best practices and tools for partnership building between different peoples, including settlers and marginalized group within a contemporary context. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis work is led by N\u00eahiyaw scholar and Co-Research Director Dr. Paulina Johnson, who is from Samson Cree Nation and whose family line descends through the Bobtail (Piche) Band, one of the original N\u00eahiyaw Pwat Nations. This work will be focused in Treaty Six in Alberta and Saskatchewan.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe work will focus on 13 distinct Indigenous communities in Alberta and Saskatchewan from the Iron Alliance and the matriarchs of each Nation telling their stories and lived realities as we share the original responsibilities of the Iron Alliance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis Hub is unique because it’s the first of its kind to examine the role of women through current matriarchs in the Iron Alliance\u2019s relations. More specifically, by shifting research away from a conventional heteronormative perspective, it challenges established settlers\u2019 narratives about Indigenous women and the N\u00eahiyaw Pwat communities\u2019 ability to establish and maintain alliances and relationships during past and adapting times. Historians and anthropologists have long overlooked women in Indigenous communities and have shared little to no information about their roles that exist and continue to date.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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  • Hub Lead: Dr. Paulina Johnson, University of Alberta, Department of Sociology\n<\/li>\n
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    Objectifs :<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWe prioritize Indigenous women\u2019s voices and worldviews. This means all creation of materials and research will be approved by the community before they are published. Any academic articles or publications will be reviewed by community contacts first. At the end of the Hub\u2019s duration, the knowledge will be given back to each community. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis Hub\u2019s main intent is to amplify those who have been overlooked in policy discussion, yet have historically been central to building meaningful relationships. Our work is an opportunity to honor and uplift them beyond narratives of damage or victimization. Through this Hub, we give back where Canada has not. The N\u00eahiyaw Pwat communities have historically shown us that building and maintaining relationships are possible, and their methods and techniques could change the very way we envision collaboration and transform how work is done within academia.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAccountability is fundamental when working within the thirteen identified First Nations, especially with Indigenous women. We will ensure that the community is cared for and respected throughout.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith the N\u00eahiyaw Pwat, we can present underrepresented knowledge systems that have been overlooked in Canadian heteropatriarchy society that restores the original teachings and responsibilities that are fundamental in this Hub. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn responsibility one, Original Grandmothers, we investigate the conservation of traditional knowledge and philosophical teachings held in the land and language. In responsibility two, Good Relations, we restore the kinship connections that were impacted by colonization. In responsibility three, we focus on the Economies of Resurgence that were the original ways we adapted to and with change and in these knowledges, we expand on what connection, trust, and expectations can mean from an Indigenous worldview. In the last responsibility of Story Medicine, we allow the wellbeing of the communities to thrive in the voices of their women and to uplift them in the roles that power and heteropatriarchy has taken from them. \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFundamental to this Hub is a focus on the well-being of the community, researchers, and the land with a full circle acknowledgement of reciprocity being built within the research objectives and fieldwork.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Hub will emphasize orality, participatory learning, and research creation. It will develop multiple community-based projects, including documentaries, audio papers, and local material culture cultivation. Through these, the project lead and community collaborators will help Knowledge Keepers and Youth record local stories and ways of knowing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe documentaries and audio papers will be kept in the community through the training of community curators. Meanwhile, the material culture piece will be presented at a university gallery before being returned to the community for use by local artisans. The point is to help Indigenous Nations initiate a local circular economy for resurgence.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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