Indigenous research is an important and burgeoning field of study. With the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions call for the Indigenization of higher education and growing interest within academic institutions, scholars are exploring research methodologies that are centred in or emerge from Indigenous worldviews, epistemologies, and ontology. This new edited collection moves beyond asking what Indigenous research is and examines how Indigenous approaches to research are carried out in practice.
Contributors share their personal experiences of conducting Indigenous research within the academy in collaboration with their communities and with guidance from Elders and other traditional knowledge keepers. Their stories are linked to current discussions and debates, and their unique journeys reflect the diversity of Indigenous languages, knowledges, and approaches to inquiry.
Indigenous Research is an essential read for students in Indigenous studies programs, as well as for those studying research methodologies in education, sociology, anthropology, and history.
FEATURES:
- Explores the foundations of Indigenous research methods
- Offers key theoretical, ethical, and methodological questions at the beginning of each chapter
- Brings together contributions from seasoned and emerging scholars, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, who research in diverse contexts
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Relationships, Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity and Responsibility: Taking Up
Indigenous Research Approaches
Rochelle Johnston, Deborah McGregor and Jean-Paul Restoule
Part I: The Research Is the Process: Research Journeys Inside and Out
Chapter 1
miyo pimātisiwin: (Re)claiming Voice with Our Original Instructions
Karlee D. Fellner
Chapter 2
Learning to Unlearn: Building Relationships on Anishinaabeg Territory
Katrina Srigley and Autumn Varley
Chapter 3
Research Tales with Txeemsim (Raven, the trickster)
Amy Parent
Part II: Making Space for Indigenous Research
Chapter 4
Wise Indigenous Woman Approaches to Research: Navigating Jagged Ethical
Tensions and Micro-Aggressions in the Academy
Shelly Johnson
Chapter 5
Healing and Transformative Learning Through Indigenous Methodologies
Karen Hall and Erin Cusack
Chapter 6
A Tale of Two Drums: Kinooamaadawaad Megwaa Doodamawaad They are learning
with each other while they are doing
Paul Cormier and Lana Ray
Part III: Communities We Research With
Chapter 7
Conducting Community Based Research in First Nation Communities
Lorrilee McGregor
Chapter 8
Aboriginal Children in Toronto Working Together to Improve Services
Angela Mashford-Pringle
Chapter 9
Applying Indigenous Health Community-Based Participatory Research
Darrel Manitowabi and Marion Maar
Part IV: Our Tools for Research
Chapter 10
Anishinaabe Research Theory and Methodology as Informed by Nanaboozhoo, the
Bundle Bag, and the Medicine Wheel
Nicole Bell
Chapter 11
Storytelling and Narrative Inquiry Exploring Research Methodologies
Georgina Martin
Chapter 12
Treaty #3: A Tool for Empowering Diverse Scholar to Engage in Indigenous
Research
Brittany Luby with Rachel Arsenault, Joseph Burke, Michelle Graham, and Toni
Valenti
Chapter 13
Working to Protect the Water: Stories of Connection and Transformation
Paige Restoule, Carly Dokis, and Benjamin Kelly
Part V: Destinations Where Research Can Take Us
Chapter 14
Towards an Anishinaabe Research Paradigm: Theory and Practice
Deborah McGregor
Chapter 15
A Story Pathway: Restoring Wholeness in the Research Process
Nicole Penak
Chapter 16
Healing Research: Relationalism in Urban Indigenous Health Knowledge
Production
Heather A. Howard
Chapter 17
Researching Within Relations of Violence: Witnessing as Methodology
Sarah Hunt
Epilogue Indigenous Research: Future Directions
Deborah McGregor
Indigenous Research Resources
Contributor Biographies
Index
Deborah McGregor is an Associate Professor and currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice at Osgoode Law School and Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.
Jean-Paul Restoule is an Associate Professor of Aboriginal Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto.
Rochelle Johnston is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
