A hearty congratulations to Assistant Professor Moss Norman (Co-Principal Investigator, KIN) for his successful CIHR Indigenous Gender and Wellness Team Grants application. Co-Lead on the project is Dr. Michael Hart (U of Calgary).
Dr. Moss and team were funded for $375,120 for their project titled Knowing Ourselves, Re-Membering Our Roles and Responsibilities: Pathways to the Health and Wellness of Cree Boys and Men. Co-Investigators on the project are Associate Professor Cash Ahenakew (EDST), Mr. Ed Azure, Mr. Wilfred Buck, Dr. Jennifer Leason, and Mr. Donald Robinson.
This 3-year project employs an Indigenous-centred, community-first design to explore the relationship between Cree values and practices, identity, healing, and wellness as a pathway for re-membering and reclaiming Cree roles and responsibilities of boys and men. The project centres Cree Elders and knowledge holders in addressing three research questions: how has colonialism impacted Cree gender formations, specifically the values, roles and responsibilities of boys and men; what is the relationship between Cree values, practices, identities and wellness; how can Cree values and embodied practices be re-membered and reclaimed in fostering the resurgence of tribally-specific roles and responsibilities of boys and men.