Flint projectile points on display at the Mewinzha Archaeology Gallery, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. Photo composed by Andy Fyon, Sept 27, 2017. The location of the flint and the skills required to make these are part on the Indigenous Knowledge.

Left to right: Elder Ananias Spence (RIP), Johnny Spence Spence (RIP; son of Elder Anias Spence), and Norman Shewaybick all at a feast in Webequie, in the homeland of Webequie First Nation. Image by Andy Fyon, March 18, 2010.

Andy Yesno, a First Nations man (Eabametoong First Nation), setting a muskrat trap in the boreal forest.

Cree storyteller Louis Bird, Weenusk First Nation, Peawanuck, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 20, 2012.

Three men laughing and discussing map information. Be authentic at all times.

Left to right: To engage Indigenous peopl means meeting the community people outside the boardroom. Noah Ooshag and Caroline Bois, Eabametoong First Nation, Fort Hope, Ontario. Image by Andy Fyon, April 12,2011.

Building trust with Indigenous people is part of a process. Discussions and active listening are part of that process.

Five pillars to consider when working towards building trust with Indigenous people: authenticity, thinking, empathy, communication, and engagement.

An orange shirt to memorialize Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Children playing with Andy Fyon (Ontario Geological Survey (OGS))along the shore of Eabamet Lake, in the homeland of Eabametoong First Nation, Ontario, Canada. Photo composed by Lori Churchill (OGS), July 3/03.

We are a guest when visiting an Indigenous community, which means paying attention to proper community etiquette. Left to right: Tony Moonias (RIP), Chief Charlie Okeese (RIP), and advisor to Chief and Council and one of my mentors Andy Yesno (RIP). Photo composed during a community information session, may 21, 2015.

An example of English and local Ojibwe dialect phonetics used to communicate the application of geology to address some interests of Indigenous communities in the far north of Ontario, Canada.

Martha Papah (left; Eabametoong First Nation), Lily Slipperjack (centre; Eabametoong First Nation) and Lori Churchill (left; formerly Ontario Geological Survey), proof reading the glossary of new Ojibwe language created to describe geological and related activities.

Elder Robert Gray and wife Madeline Gray at the elders’ lunch, in the Lawrence Wesley Education Centre, Cat Lake First Nation, Ontario, Canada, December 11, 2013.

The remote, fly-in First Nations community of Webequie, in the homeland of Webequie First Nation, Ontario, Canada. Photo composed Sept. 11, 2006.

An example of collaboration: Lori Churchill (left: Ontario Geological Survey) with Martha Papah (centre) and Lily Slipperjack (right), both members of Eabametoong First Nation, in the community, developing display material for an information meeting, April 1, 2004.

Log church located in Summewr Beaver, in the homeland of Nibinamik First Nation, Ontario, Canada, July 26, 2002. Photo by Andy Fyon.

Children at the Fort Hope arena, in the homeland of Eabametoong First Nation, Ontario, Canada.

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