The Firelight Group

The Firelight Group is a consulting and research firm that primarily serves indigenous communities. We are a majority indigenous-owned, woman-owned business that has been around since 2009, and our business has thrived primarily due to relationship building and word of mouth from our customers. We’ve had over 250 clients, worked on over 1k projects, and done work from coast to coast to coast. One of the biggest differences between us and people doing similar work is that we are not only indigenous-led but directly accountable to communities – it’s important to us that communities invite us to work on their behalf and determine the parameters of that work, and that they ultimately have the ability to hire and fire us themselves, as many other researchers from academia and non-profits end up doing research ‘on’ these communities rather than ‘with’ or ‘for’ them. We work with Indigenous and local communities in Canada and beyond to provide high quality research, policy, planning, mapping, negotiation, and advisory services. Our work focuses on culture, health, socio-economics, ecology, and governance to support the rights and interests of Indigenous communities.