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Bringing together researchers from geographically, culturally, and linguistically diverse regions, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies offers guidance and lessons learned from research projects in and with Indigenous communities around the world. This edited volume explores issues of power, representation, participation, and accountability in studies involving Indigenous peoples and draws on contributors’ reflections of their own varied experiences conducting collaborative research in distinct yet related fields. Anchoring the book are several key aims: exploring decolonizing and decolonial methodological paradigms, honouring Indigenous knowledge systems, and growing interdisciplinary collaboration toward Indigenous self-determination.
This collection is a hopeful contribution to Indigenous communities, institutions, scholarship, and practice, highlighting challenges and ideas from Indigenous researchers who are doing the work of moving forward Indigenous research methodologies. Throughout, authors share critical stories regarding what it means to do Indigenous research and to become an Indigenous researcher today. Authors discuss themes essential to study design—including ethics, positionality, data analysis, and dissemination—that reveal how they resist, negotiate, and transform research using multiple epistemologies. Including chapter learning objectives and reflection questions, this text is a vital resource for students and anyone interested in developing a relationship with Indigenous research methods.
SECTION I: SETTING THE INDIGENOUS RESEARCH AGENDA: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES AND RESEARCH WORLDVIEWS
Chapter 1: Indigenous Research: Methodologies of Resilience and Adaptation, by Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Nathan D. Martin (Editors)
Chapter 2: Finding the Bone Needle through Indigenous Storywork, by Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem (Stó:lō and St’at’imc First Nations)
Chapter 3: What Are Your Values? Positioning the Researcher, by Porter Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo)
SECTION II: RESEARCH FOR OUR EARTH
Chapter 4: Holographic Epistemology (Indigenous Common Sense): A Nakòna Example, by Sweeney Windchief (Fort Peck Assiniboine)
Chapter 5: Making Sense of Anecdata: Pushing the Edges of Science in Decolonizing Research, by Peter Mataira (Māori, Ngāti Porou/Ngāti Kahungunu)
Chapter 6: “Our Indigenous brothers and sisters are available for us, and we are available for them”: Non-Local Relationships Nurturing Research through an Alaska-Aotearoa Online Student Exchange, by Ocean Ripeka Mercier (Ngāti Porou) and Beth Ginondidoy Leonard (Dene’/Athabascan)
SECTION III: RESEARCH FOR WELL-BEING
Chapter 7: Restoring Ceremony as the Methodological Approach in Indigenous Research: The Indigenous Doula Project, by Jaime Cidro (Anishnawbe), Stephanie Sinclair (Anishnawbe), Sarah DeLaronde (Cree), and Leona Star (Cree)
Chapter 8: Methodological Challenges When Doing Qualitative Mental Health Research among Sámi and Norwegians, by Hilde Thørnquist (Pite Sámi)
Chapter 9: Indigenizing Research Participant Recruitment, by Rachell Tenorio (Santo Domingo Pueblo/Kewa Pueblo)
SECTION IV: RESEARCH FOR PEDAGOGY AND LEARNING
Chapter 10: Credentialing Our Own: Development of an Indigenous Master of Public Health Degree, by Maile Chargualaf Flores Taualii (Kanaka Maoli)
Chapter 11: Qualitative Analysis as Ho‘oku‘iku‘i or Bricolage: Teaching Emancipatory Indigenous Research to Native Hawaiian Graduate Students, by Julie Kaomea (Kanaka Maoli)
SECTION V: RESEARCH FOR CONNECTIVITY AND CULTURAL PRACTICES
Chapter 12: Yeewa (Collaborative Creativity) as Methodology, by Trevor Reed (Hopi)
Chapter 13: The Voice of Thunder: Respect, Reciprocity, and Reconciliation in Indigenous Research, by Brian D. McInnes (Ojibwe/Potawatomi)
Chapter 14: Mink’a Methodologies: Quechua Research in the Peruvian Andes, by Elizabeth Sumida Huaman (Wanka/Quechua)
SECTION VI: RESEARCH FOR PEOPLEHOOD AND BELONGING
Chapter 15: Remaking Chabochi: Research, Positionality, and Power on Rarámuri Lands, by Jorge Morales Guerrero (Chabochi/Mestizo Mexicano)
Chapter 16: Measuring Indigenous Identity with Indigenous Communities, by Jameson D. Lopez (Quechan) and Danielle D. Lucero (Isleta Pueblo)
Chapter 17: Ainu Puri and Research: Seeking “Our Way” for the Future Well-Being of Ainu People in Japan, by Nanako Iwasa and Kaori Arai (Ainu)