Indigenous Research
Theories, Practices, and Relationships
Edited by Deborah McGregor, Jean-Paul Restoule, Rochelle Johnston
September 2018
Print ISBN: 9781773380858
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Overview
Scholars understand what Indigenous research is, but how we practice Indigenous research ethically and respectfully in Canada is under exploration. This ground-breaking edited collection provides readers with concrete and in-depth examples of how to overcome the challenges of Indigenous research with respect to Indigenous worldviews, epistemologies, and ontology. In collaboration with their communities, and with guidance from Elders and other traditional knowledge keepers, each contributor links their personal narrative of Indigenous research to current discussions and debates. Accessible in nature, this interdisciplinary research tool is an essential read for all students and scholars in Indigenous Studies, as well as in the education, anthropology, sociology, and history research methodology classroom.
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Table of Contents
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 pimâtisiwin: (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: Kinoo’amaadawaad 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
Reviews
"Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices and Relationships will be of great interest for those individuals looking to move away from the Western hierarchical status-based system of academia. What might the world look like if, instead of the scholar-academic, knowledge, people, and communities were placed at the centre of knowledge production, as this book shows? Providing a nuanced and engaging account of how to practice Indigenous research and scholarship, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in deep learning about what decolonizing research looks like in practice."—Rima Wilkes, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
"This text significantly contributes to the depth and breadth of Indigenous approaches to knowledge gathering (research) and the ongoing struggle to introduce Indigenous intellectual knowledges within the Academy. The focus on connecting intellectual and spiritual knowledges to specific Indigenous nations, and the use of relational knowledge, Indigenous languages, paradigms, and concepts are some of the major strengths of this compilation. I expect this will be a very important book. If decolonization matters to you, especially in the Academy and its institutions, read this book, teach this book, and share this book."—Tracy Coates, J.D., M.E.S., Professor (LTA), Program Coordinator for Aboriginal Studies, Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies, University of Ottawa
