This research workshop will involve a faculty member from Algonquin College and the Educational Developer and Curriculum Lead from First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI). As Indigenous peoples working within academia our power has been utilized to relay our stories, relationships to the land and our kinship ties. Based on our realities as Indigenous Peoples residing in Ontario, Canada, we propose to discuss conceptions associated to Indigenization, Reconciliation and Decolonization (IRD) through storytelling, academic literature, as well as practices asked of Indigenous staff and faculty within academia. As post-secondary institutions are responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, Indigenous minds and bodies are increasingly measured and asked to engage in the performativity of certain terms, which is often extractive and harmful. This research workshop will explore how we are sharing our stories, and lived experiences as Indigenous Peoples working within academia while we engage in buzz word terms such as IRD, that are often employed and expected from those working within post-secondary institutions. This dialogue is not intended to solve any current dilemmas associated with these terms, but rather engage in a process that is meant to stimulate collaboration, discussion and disrupt current notions of what it means to be an era of IRD within post-secondary institutions.