The Relational Governance Project is currently working on two research projects: an Education Database and conducting Relational Citizenship Interviews. This research builds on Wildcat’s dissertation “Weaving Our Authority Together: Transforming the Prairie Indigenous Order.”

Education Database
One of the research initiatives is creating a database on the governance of how First Nations deliver K-12 education in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It is primarily a knowledge mobilization project, as the Education Database will be publicly accessible resource.

Relational Citizenship Interviews
The second initiative will include a series of interviews about citizenship, focusing on my own community, Maskwacîs, a Nehiyaw (Plains Cree) community comprised of four Nations that have contiguous reserves. Research on citizenship is needed to expand the Relational Governance Project’s theory of exclusive sovereignty and address gendered injustice within First Nations.
Contact
Email: mwildcat@ualberta.ca