This research has four parts, each linked to a key objective:

1) Analyze provincial school curricula and texts from K-12 and incorporate recent research into Indigenous content in these jurisdictions into our analysis. Aim: to analyze what pre-university learning is mandated across Canada.

2) Working with specialists of First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures, current events, governance, geography and history, Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators, administrators, and students, develop a questionnaire including a test of student knowledge and a series of questions about students’ education, attitudes and demographics for each educational jurisdiction. Aim: to work with the people who know most about Indigenous people and those who know most about education to develop the best possible validated test of important knowledge. This also engages our university and community partners in the challenge of Indigenous education.

3) Using this questionnaire, survey all first-year students (proxy for K-12 learning) and fourth-year students at partner universities. Aim: to measure what school and university students have learned against our test and the provincial curriculum and explore the obstacles to their learning.

4) Disseminate our research widely through consultations with First Nations, Métis and Inuit organizations, Ministries of Education, university administrations and the media. Aim: to influence research and policy in educational institutions and in national and community news venues.