Ganigonhi:oh The Good Mind Meets the Academy

Abstract

This article documents and examines the experience, challenges, and lessons of the Department of Indigenous Studies at Trent University as it worked over a 30-yearperiod to bring Indigenous Knowledge into the intellectual life of the university.Bringing Indigenous peoples into the academy is a fairly straightforward project. Itis, however, only the start of a new intellectual project in Canada: the creation ofIndigenous universities and the creation of Indigenous spaces in Canadianuniversities. Both projects involve more than the physical presence of Indigenouspeoples. They involve an active teaching and research engagement with theknowledge that Indigenous peoples have created over millennia.