This guide curates relevant and useful business resources to support UCW students, faculty, and staff in researching, understanding, and engaging with Indigenous businesses.
To work effectively with Indigenous businesses to achieve a smooth and successful outcome, it is critical to be informed about the history and continued ramifications of colonization and how the fraught past impacts current relationships and business practices.
This highlights the importance of the 3Rs:
- Recognition: Acknowledging the legitimacy of Indigenous peoples and their rights.
- Respect: Ensuring that Indigenous peoples are treated as equals and that their cultures, worldviews, and rights are honoured.
- Reconciliation: Efforts to heal previous misdeeds and create a future based on equality, justice, and mutual understanding, while also addressing the long-standing impacts of colonialism
Other key principles and ideas such as Indigenous data governance and data sovereignty (CARE and OCAP), cultural protocols, and the sovereignty and self-governance of Indigenous communities, must also be considered when working with or researching Indigenous Peoples and businesses.
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