Ryan is the founder of Know History, Canada’s largest historical research firm. Ryan has 20years of experience working as a public historian and has led large complicated research filesfor First Nations, Metis, and Inuit governments. He has worked on Truth Commissions, Residential School Files, and more recently has been supporting the work of the Office of the Special Interlocutor, the Survivor’s Secretariat, Akwesasronon Shonataten:ron, the Council of Yukon First Nations, and other First Nations researching their Missing Children and Unmarked Burials. Ryan is an expert in developing research plans, gaining access to historical documents, and organizing research teams. In addition to his expertise in archival strategies Ryan has also conducted extensive fieldwork with more than 200 oral history interviews and Traditional Knowledge and Land use interviews. Ryan has spent his career working with Indigenous communities on museum exhibits, expert reports, and the documentation of community knowledge. He works to ensure community ownership and access to their history through negotiating access at archives and museum institutions. He is also passionate about ways that technology can support community ownership and the telling of Indigenous history from an indigenous perspective.