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This article examines how musical acts and skills, mediated by drums, can foster a relational ethics between native and non-native partners in a collaborative research context. The article is based on research conducted with the First Nations Innu people of Mashteuiatsh, Canada. The study of their drums, called teuehikan, questions and analyzes principles relating to respect, attention, and reciprocity. Through these principles, the article returns to the ethical, methodological, and epistemological reconfigurations that the relationship with the teuehikan allows us to conceptualize. More specifically, it questions how the relationship between the Innu and the teuehikan is part of an ethics of care whose principles are likely to inform our own research practices.