Publications and Reports

2026

Education as a Policy Tool for Reconciliation: Why Our View of Mind Matters

Kurtis Boyer

In Emily Grafton and David MacDonald (eds.), On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Relations and Resistances. University of Regina Press.

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2025

Universities Can’t Indigenize from Inside. Co-Governance Is the Missing Catalyst

Kurtis Boyer

Policy Options, Institute for Research on Public Policy. December 2, 2025.

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2024

Defining a Nation: Métis Nation Building in the Face of Epistemic Injustice

Kurtis Boyer and Chris Andersen

Native American and Indigenous Studies, 11(2), 71–94.

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2024

The Métis Nation, Epistemic Injustice, and Self-Indigenization

Kurtis Boyer and Paul Simard Smith

Pawaatamihk: Journal of Métis Thinkers, 1(2), 264–275.

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2024

A Vision of the Nation

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Inclusion of Seven Communities into the Métis Nation of Ontario and Its Implications for Métis Legitimacy, Governance and Identity

Kurtis Boyer, Daniel Voth, and Darrelyne Bickel

Report prepared for the Métis National Council, submitted on behalf of Métis Nation–Saskatchewan. August 23, 2024.

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2024

A Governance Review of Métis Nation British Columbia

Kurtis Boyer and Scott Auriat

JSGS Research Chair in Métis Governance and Policy. April 29, 2024.

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2023

Where Does Agency Come From? Exploring Indigenous Models of Mind

Kurtis Boyer

In Andrea Sullivan-Clarke (ed.), Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to Indigenous Philosophies of Turtle Island, pp. 82–94. Broadview Press.

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2023

Brief on Bill C-29

An Act to Provide for the Establishment of a National Council for Reconciliation

Kurtis Boyer

Brief to the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples.

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