Positions
Education
Current University Committees & Engagement
NU Special Advisor to the President on Indigenous Matters
NU Indigenous Affirmation Verification Policy Working Group
NU Indigenous Community Engagement Plan Review Committee
Nipissing University Indigenous Council on Education, Working Group
NU Equity Action Planning Taskforce
NU Hiring Committees (recent) - Provost and Vice President (admin), School of Physical & Health Education (faculty)
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- Education Consecutive
- Indigenous Education Programs
Graduate Studies
- Master of Education
- Kinesiology, MSc
- PhD in Education (Educational Sustainability)
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
School year
- 2026/27
- 2027/28
Guidelines or Expectations for Prospective Students
See Guidelines or Expectations for Graduate Students link attached.
Supervised Theses / Projects
- Sackaney, J. (2023). Tapipano toohaan: The impact of organized basketball and the stories of Fort Albany’s players and their community supporters [MEd thesis].
- Ray, R. (2023). Building Our Inner Fires: Gikinoo’amaadiwin (Gaining Knowledge) with First Nations Leadership [PhD dissertation].
- Manitowabi, M. (2022). Innovative Approaches to Indigenous Early Childhood Education: Co-Constructing Story with Indigenous Experts through Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being [PhD dissertation]
- Peltier, K. (2021). Understanding Sport, Physical Activity and Wholistic Health in First Nations, Inuit and Métis Youth [MScKin thesis].
Research
Research Interests
Dr. Peltier is Anishnaabe-kwe from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and Nipissing First Nation. Her research seeks to understand Anishinaabe wellness through the intersections of health, education, and Anishinaabe gikendassowin (Anishinaabe knowledge) using community-based research methodologies. This work centers on concepts such as mino-bimaadiziwin (way of a good life), wiidooktaadyang (we are helping one another), and engwaamzidaa (being careful) and is embodied in the following projects. Exploring the lived cancer experiences of the Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island) Anishinaabek and their use of Indigenous healing, she produced a film (https://vimeo.com/453846089) and a forthcoming manuscript on this work, with community audiences in mind. She is a co-investigator on the CIHR-funded Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe'iyewigamig Mino-Bimaadiziwin Project: Cancer Prevention through Traditional Healing, which shares ways Anishinaabek can benefit from our own healing methods. Another of her projects, Wiidooktaadyang (We are Helping Each Other): Understanding the Experience of Wellness in Nipissing First Nation, was designed to meet Indigenous health and education outcomes and laid the groundwork for a micro-credential co-created with Nipissing First Nation https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/indigenoushealthandwellness/. She is a co-investigator on Listening to Children’s Voices - Promoting Indigenous Mental Wellness, which focuses on scaling up a mental wellness measure (https://achwm.ca/) developed with and for Indigenous children. In a collaboration with Mnidoo Mnising Anishinaabe scholars, she is also a co-investigator on the SSHRC-funded Indigenous Research Sovereignty and Governance: Anishinaabek Perspectives on Intellectual Property Rights and Responsibilities.
Grants & Funding
- Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe'iyewigamig Mino-Bimaadiziwin Project: Cancer Prevention through Traditional Healing, CIHR Team Grant - GACD Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cancer, 2021-2026
- Promoting Indigenous Wellness in Anishinaabe Communities. [In partnership with Nipissing First Nation], Ontario Micro-Credentials Challenge Fund, 2021-2022
- Listening to Children’s Voices - Promoting Indigenous Mental Wellness (I aM Well), CIHR Implementation Team Grant: Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal People, 2020-2025
- Indigenous Research Sovereignty and Governance: Anishinaabek Perspectives on Intellectual Property Rights and Responsibilities, SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2020-2023
- Mno Nimkodadding Geegi (We Are All Connected): The Ontario Node of the Indigenous Mentorship Network Program, CIHR Indigenous Mentorship Network Program Operating Grant, 2017-2022
- Evaluation to Action - Integrating the Voices of Aboriginal Children (ETA), Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care - Health Systems Research Fund Health Systems Research Fund Award, 2017-2020
- Wiidooktaadyang [We are Helping Each Other]: Understanding the Experience of Wellness and Helping in Nipissing First Nation, CIHR Catalyst Grant, 2017-2019
- An Indigenous Collaborative Care Best Practices Model (ICCBPM): Using Simulated Participant Simulations to Promote Culturally Safe Healthcare along the Cancer Journey, CIHR Catalyst Grant, 2017-2019
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
Peltier, C., Nipissing First Nation, Manankil-Rankin, L., & McCullough, K. (2023). Wiidooktaadyang: Promoting Health and Wellness in Anishinaabe Communities. eCampusOntario Pressbooks. Read more
Peltier, C., Manankil-Rankin, L., McCullough, K., Paulin, M., Anderson, P., & Hanzlik, K. (2025). Exploring wellness and wiidooktaadyang (we are helping one another) in Nipissing First Nation. First Nations Health and Wellbeing – The Lowitja Journal, 3, 100059. Read more
Peltier, C., Dickson, S., Grandpierre, V., Oltean, I., McGregor, L., Hageltorn, E., & Young, N. L. (2024). Culturally appropriate consent processes for community driven Indigenous child health research: A scoping review. BMC Medical Ethics, 25(3). Read more
Peltier, C. (2018). An application of two eyed seeing: Indigenous research methods with participatory action research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17, 1–12. Read more
Peltier, C., & Lucas, S. D. (More Than Common Productions). This Was Real [Video production]. Read more
Peltier, C., Manankil-Rankin, L., McCullough, K., Paulin, M., Anderson, P., & Hanzlik, K. (2019). Self location and ethical space in wellness research. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 14(2), 44–61. Read more