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CANHR investigator Stacy Rasmus is joining Olga Ulturgasheva, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, in a study that explores their experiences as indigenous researchers in indigenous communities. Both women work with Native youth in the Arctic.

"Our main concern is to come up with more effective and culturally responsive ways of working with indigenous youth," Ulturgasheva said. Furthermore the study will "expand the current debate on 'decolonization' and 'indigenization' of social research," she said.

The study could give the two Native researchers the ability to significantly contribute to anthropology, social and rural psychology and environmental health, said Rasmus, who is the project's principal investigator.

The $300,000, two-year project is funded by the National Science Foundation.