Our Vision
As a non-hierarchically governed, BIPOC-led research team and registered society, our core vision is to direct far more attention to the rich, countless ways in which Asian-Indigenous relations have shaped (and been shaped by) Turtle Island.
Our Mission
The digital spaces our research team occupies, including the website you are reading this on, cannot be separated from the offline world. All aspects of our operations are grounded on the unceded, traditional, and stolen territories of the səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations. Core to our overall mission is to continue to fight for the decolonization and restitution of these colonial places, both offline and online.
The Asian-Indigenous Relations Research Team acknowledges that “[artificial intelligence] is only as good as the data that feed it, and its unbalanced diet generally consists of data sets shaped by an invisible Eurowestern identity” (O’Gorman, 2023). Therefore, we will never utilize ChatGPT or any other generative artificial intelligence model in developing our digital resource, including coding, researching, and our published multimedia materials.
Our digital resource, flaws and all, is 100% human-made. Generative artificial intelligence models are only made possible due to the perception that the data they are trained on exists in a digital expanse open for extraction and expansion (thus repeating the doctrine of terra nullius that serves as a primary logic of settler colonialism).