Seeking Indigenous Approaches

Recover is committed to decolonization and reconciliation.

As such, we want to frame our work in ways that find resonances and connections with Indigenous world views. 

Therefore, we are guided by the following core principles:

• Engaging in Self-Location: Self-location refers to understanding who we are and where we come from, admitting what we do and don’t know, and committing to an ongoing relational learning process. This allows us to continually reflect on how we work, who we work with, and how we understand success, as primarily settler people.

• Creating Ethical Space: This is the space between world views where honest, safe, and meaningful engagements between peoples can take place. By creating physical spaces that promote both Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing as whole, separate, but not at odds with one another, we can unlearn and learn what it means to productively work across cultural divides.

• Aspiring to see with Two-Eyed Seeing: To see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing, and to see from the other eye with the strengths of Western ways of knowing, and to use both of these eyes together. Two-Eyed Seeing is about collaboratively working together, learning together, and creating meaning together.

• Deepening and renewing our connections to the lands that weave us together.

We relate to these ideas primarily through nêhiyaw teachings, and we intend to continue to grow in our relationships and our knowledge.