Strategies,Reflections,and Recommendations for Community Engagement While Conducting Research With a Haudenosaunee First Nations Community: The Six Nations COVID CommUNITY Study

There is limited literature regarding community engagement and research methods for First Nations communities that are generated by First Nations community members themselves. In this article, the authors draw on their experiences as both community members and research staff on the COVID CommUNITY Study, which occurred from 2021 to 2024 at Six Nations of the Grand River. We highlight the community engagement strategies used, reflections on those strategies, and recommendations for future research, within six subthemes of our engagement: administration and data collection tools, hiring and training staff, engaging community, incentives, knowledge translation, and relationship with community. We hope that future Six Nations researchers and other First Nations can utilize these strategies when planning and implementing their own research initiatives, and that non-Indigenous researchers can draw on these recommendations to be better partners in research with Six Nations and other First Nations communities.