Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages (CIKL)

The Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages (CIKL) aims to facilitate knowledge production and dissemination that re-centres Indigenous knowledges, languages, practices and ways of being. The Centre supports research involving both traditional and contemporary knowledges, as care-taken, shared and created by Indigenous scholars located in the University and Indigenous knowledge holders from communities. CIKL is the first Organized Research Unit at York University centred on Indigenous and decolonizing scholarship, and hosts Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and students engaged in these areas.