Co-developing a Culturally Safe Engagement Protocol with Urban Indigenous Partners

There is a long-standing history of improper engagement with Indigenous individuals that often lacks respect, humility, and understanding of Indigenous protocols. To rebuild trust with people, researchers must commit to reconciliation and develop strategies for ethical engagement. The UPROOT team has more than 10 years of history working with individual Nations to decolonize and Indigenize pharmacy education and practice. The team has primarily worked with individual Nations, but their next project will focus on Urban Indigenous people which represent various First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people. Due to the diversity, UPROOT lacks clarity on the proper principles of engagement in lieu of Nation-specific approaches. This project aims to create an engagement framework for engaging with Indigenous individuals, communities and/or organizations by answering the following research question: What are the culturally safe principles and protocols for engagement with Urban Indigenous partners?