Haudenosaunee Pod

The Haudenosaunee Pod is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Attawandaron Nations in the Dish with One Spoon Region (London, Ontario; Canada).

This Pod is focused on exploring the ways in which AI technology can support the innovation, transmission, expression and transformation of Indigenous (Haudenosaunee) creative and cultural practices, while simultaneously exploring how Indigenous knowledge-frameworks can help us think differently about AI in our current digital epoch.


The Pod consists of researchers in the Social Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences, Humanities and Art and Design disciplines who work in collaboration with elders, knowledge-keepers, storytellers, and creative practitioners from the Indigenous communities in the region. Working in collaboration in/with community, the research team is focused on exploring the ways in which Indigenous epistemologies–which are inherently land-based, hybrid, and embodied forms of knowledge–can provide new perspectives on how to navigate our technological landscape and better integrate new (AI) technologies into existing lifeways, to the benefit of all-our-relations.

The Haudenosaunee Pod works collaboratively across the Dish with One Spoon region as well as across cultural/interdisciplinary contexts. This Pod focuses on developing new methods for incorporating Indigenous creative and cultural practices (in speech, song, dance, and storytelling in all its diverse forms) into how AI systems understand the world, while investigating how the underlying computational architectures might need to be reshaped to do so effectively.