Our goal as a research network is to use storytelling methodologies to recover and reclaim urban Indigenous histories. Through research grounded in Indigenous voices, knowledges, and stories, the project explores what reconciliation means for Métis living in Saskatoon and for the urban Indigenous community in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Directly responding to community and scholarly calls, the network endeavours to show how a practice centred on Indigenous storytelling can decentre settler narratives of belonging, ownership, and reconciliation, while testing their methodology in two distinct communities - the cities of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

This broad Indigenous-led network includes: 3 Indigenous Community Organizations; 1 Indigenous-led arts organization; 2 universities; and a team of over 30 scholars, storytellers, and students. This team seeks to develop a methodology that will significantly fuel and enable reconciliation in other cities as well.

• Connect the two cities by building robust Indigenous-led networks of mentorship, support, and collaboration
• Research stories of continued Indigenous presence in these two cities building a public narrative of these places as always having been and continuing to be Indigenous
• Create new stories of urban Indigenous histories and futures by collaborating with and supporting contemporary urban Indigenous storytellers and artists
• Amplify both new and researched stories through various forms of public dissemination to promote an expansive form of reconciliation that is grounded in Indigenous voices, knowledges, and stories