This University of British Columbia research cluster is composed of archaeologists, physical scientists, First Nations communities, scholars in Indigenous cultural traditions and scholars in the philosophy and culture of scholarship and knowledge production. It seeks to catalyze a conversation about science, with specific application to understanding Indigenous history and the environment via both empirical evidence and critical social theory. Their focus includes the Indigenous past, its material and historical manifestations, the environmental context within which it occurred, and the study of this past. Their work is interdisciplinary and overlaps with Indigenous studies, geochemistry, philosophy, archaeology, history, legal studies, anthropology, and museology.