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This paper looks at how people conceive of Indigenous disability and disability activism in the Canadian disability movement and in Indigenous organizations. Our central question is: How do Indigenous organizations and Canadian disability rights organizations think about Indigenous disability issues? We carry out an analysis of the reports and literature regarding thirteen (13) disability rights and Indigenous organizations [including within Vancouver's Downtown Eastside]. We conclude the disability movement should listen to Indigenous communities and knowledge holders. Disability rights organizations can seek to be evaluated on their practices, like a student on a field placement, in a process of decolonial and Indigenous evaluation within a framework of Indigenous relationality (Rowe, 2022).