Grant: Travel Awards - Institute Community Support

Structural racism is defined as the macro-level systems, social forces, institutions, ideologies,and processes that interact with one another to generate and reinforce inequities among racial and ethnic groups. By investigating colonialism, structural racism and inequality from an Indigenous perspective we can build on the discourse about oppression and its impact on Indigenous lives, particularly in regards to research processes in Indigenous communities and how knowledge about Indigenous peoples is produced. While Indigenous critiques of academic knowledge production emerged around the same timeframe in Canada and the Nordic countries, the discourse has led to different outcomes in each country. A keyunderpinning of this presentation is to clearly articulate the interconnection between structural racism, knowledge production and Indigenous research ethics. Featuring the evolution of Indigenous research ethics in Canada and its pathway to developing and implementing guidelines and policy. Along with a more detailed discussion of the historical dialogue in the Nordic countries regarding the necessity to create ethical guidelines for Sámi research. We will further the dialogue by highlighting the contextual similarities and divergences between the situation in Canada and the Nordic countries (with a focus on Finland) along with recommendation of how to begin developing and implementing Sámi research ethics guidelines in the Nordic countries.