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Research profile: Sherry Pictou


Sherry Pictou, Faculties of Law and Management

Re-grounding of Indigenous women and governance based on Indigenous land- & water-based laws and treaty relations

Dr. Pictou was awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance (2021ā€“26). Her research program seeks to address concerns about the limited participation of Indigenous women in governance and decision-making processes, focusing on natural resources, as evidenced by Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2019). In collaboration with Indigenous women, Dr. Pictouā€™s research generates a gender-based analysis from an Indigenous perspective that will inform Indigenous and non-Indigenous governance practices. The research builds on a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant with KAIROS, a Canadian ecumenical organization for social environmental justice. The study is titled ā€œBuilding Indigenousā€“academicā€“not-for-profit relations for mobilizing research knowledge on the gendered impacts of resource extraction in Indigenous communities in Canadaā€. This project is in its final phase, which involves a digital storytelling project to be hosted on the Mother Earth and Resource Extraction Hub and a final report about a gathering of Wolastoqiyik and Miā€™kmaq Grandmothers and Land Defenders and their shared experiences, challenges, pilipiliĀž»­es and strategies for building capacity toward transforming legislation and polices to take into account the impacts of resource extraction on gender.