Finance committee  We're not able to access it because we don't have institutional recognition. SSHRC recently opened up the application to allow indigenous not-for-profit organizations to apply for SSHRC funding only, so we jumped at that and applied for three grants right away. Hopefully we'll he

Finance committee  We also have students from across the north who have come to our program. Over the last 10 years, we've had numerous graduate students. We've seen them start to develop their own programs in their own communities, which I think is really heartening. Especially in the last two s

Finance committee  No. I think that's good.

Finance committee  Over the last three years, we have had an operating budget of $2.5 million. That has allowed us to do program delivery across the Peel River, in the Dehcho region, as well as the core delivery in Chief Drygeese territory. With that, we've really built up the capacity. We gradua

Finance committee  Yes. We've been working with the University of Alberta since the beginning. For the last 10 years, we've been working with the Faculty of Native Studies. All of the courses we deliver are accredited through that faculty, and we can deliver any of the courses on those books. The

Finance committee  I think we're doing a lot of things differently. Dechinta is recognized across Canada and globally as leading in indigenous education, land-based education and land-based pedagogy. For the last 10 years, we have really been developing this new way of teaching, which is actually

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. One of the things Dechinta has been informed by is research-led teaching. We have a research component to our academic programming, as well as the instructional side. Up to this point, we have not been able to access research funding through the federally funded

Finance committee  In the last three years, Dechinta received funding from INAC as part of the post-secondary partnerships program. With this support, Dechinta was able to develop and deliver programming in the Dehcho and Peel river basins in the Sahtu region and to begin conversations about the re