This project has been funded...
There are a few ways that people are being paid for the work being done on this project. Firstly you should know that Amanda is paid approximately $25.00 per hour, for 40 hours per week, until March 2024 to continue working on this project from Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. Any graduate student can apply for these. They are awarded based on the qualifications of the researcher, and the merits of the proposed research. Amanda supplements their income through part time work.
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Co-mentors or storyteller-artists applied for their own grant to spend time in museums with Amanda and the knowledge keepers and Elders. They are paid one day per week for two years to do this work (until March 2025), and they are paid $25.00 per hour. They manage their own funds, which are totally separate from Amanda's research funds, with the help of the Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth.
Amanda and the co-mentors also applied for the Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship. They were awarded $6000 which went directly to seven co-mentors. This group also applied for several other project funds, including from Canadian Roots Exchange, and Calgary Arts Development, to do work that emerged from their museum explorations. They can decide if they want to share the results of those projects on this website somewhere. Anyone Indigenous can apply for these funds. Amanda is willing to provide help on applications. (Contact them if you want support).
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This group also reached out to the Museum of Anthropology to apply to their Indigenous Collections Access Grant. We were awarded $2,000 to assist in the costs of paying for Elders and knowledge keepers to come to the museum with the group of co-mentors and Amanda.
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Amanda was awarded funding from the Wenner Gren Foundation totaling $20,000 USD. This funding is required to be spent entirely on Elders and knowledge keepers, and their travel and accommodations as per the budget Amanda submitted. This is intended to cover year one of the project. This is a fund that graduate students of anthropology can apply for.
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Amanda continues to seek funding for Elders and knowledge keepers wages and travel for year two. There have been supportive contributions made by the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology and the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary for early elements of this project.
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How did we decide what to pay?
We used Amanda's wages as a benchmark for the co-mentors wages, but sometimes they are paid honoraria as lump sums based on the grants they applied to and the work they're doing.
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We used federal government guidelines to determine how much should be paid for travel, including meals and compensation for expenses of travel (per diem).
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We used rates approved by the Stoney Nakoda Nation (as of 2022) for Elders and knowledge keepers pay ($250 per half day & $400 for full day up to 6 hours).
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If you have questions or concerns about this please contact Amanda.