Decolonizing Methodologies: A Transformation from Science Oriented Researcher to Relational/Participant-Oriented Researcher

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ranjan Datta
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 115-130
Description
Discusses decolonizing the research process, beginning with how researchers engage with Indigenous communities; challenges the mainstream scientific idea that there is a “single truth to be discovered and that scientific knowledge is far more valuable than subjective or experiential knowledge.”
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Decolonizing Our Diets by Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Devon A. Mihesuah
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Keeping the Campfires Going: Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Autumn, 2003, pp. 807-839
Description
Offers information on how to control and prevent diabetes and weight gain.
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Decolonizing Pedagogy: Teaching Louise Erdrich's The Bingo Palace

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret A. Toth
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 19, no. 1, Special Issue, Spring, 2007, pp. 91-116
Description
Proposes a model to assist non-Indigenous educators with the novel and some general guidlines for teaching Native American literature without "colonizing" it. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 91.
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Decolonizing Social Work "Best Practices" through a Philosophy of Impermanence

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alexandra Crampton
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 4, no. 1, October 2015, pp. [1]-11
Description
Argues that evidence-based practice can result in rigid standards which are not necessarily suitable for application in specific local environments. Discusses lessons learned during the repatriation of twin Zuni "war gods" from the Smithsonian Institution.
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Decolonizing Strategies for Mentoring American Indians and Alaska Natives in HIV and Mental Health Research

Alternate Title
Mentoring For Diversity in HIV/AIDS To Strengthen Research Capacity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karina L. Walters
Jane M. Simoni
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 99, Supplement 1, April 2009, pp. S71-S76
Description
Researchers are working to reduce barriers in academia by incorporating Indigenous worldviews, and building relationships and capacity with research partners.
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Decolonizing the 1862 Death Marches

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Waziyatawin Angela Wilson
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 185-215
Description
Article examines the narratives surrounding the 1862 Death Marches, The Sioux Uprising that preceded it, and the colonial actions of the state that created the uprising. Author uses the work of anti-oppression scholars to reframe the discourse surrounding this historical moment.
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Decolonizing the Borderland: Wichita Frontier Strategies

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen M. Perkins
Richard R. Drass
Susan C. Vehik
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
Description
Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
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Decolonizing the Choctaws: Teaching LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrice Hollrah
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1/2, 2004, pp. 73-85
Description
Discusses how reading this novel helps students understand the importance of historical and cultural contexts when reading American Indian literature.
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Deconstructing the Master's House with His Own Tools: Code-Switching and Double-Voiced Discourse as Agency in Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bernadette V. Russo
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 29, no. 4, Winter, 2017, pp. 58-75
Description
Explore Vizenor’s use of devices such as humour, code-switching, and subversion of the English language to undermine Eurocentric narratives and create agency for the characters in his writing.
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Decorative Art and Basketry of the Cherokee

Alternate Title
Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee ; v. 2, no. 2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Frank G. Speck
Description

pp. 55-86 of Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee ; v. 2, no. 2.

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Decorative Art of the Sioux Indians

Alternate Title
Bulletin (American Museum of Natural History) ; v. 18, pt. 3
E-Books
Author/Creator
Clark Wissler
Description
Forms part of Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 18 (p. 231-278).
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Deer

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah A. Miranda
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1999, p. [17]
Description
Poem. Entire issue on one pdf. To access poem, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Defining Aboriginality in Australia

Alternate Title
Current Issues Brief (Department of the Parliamentary Library) ; no. 10 2002-03
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John Gardiner-Garden
Description
Looks at historical definitions, contemporary problems with terminology, and international comparisons.
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Defining Quality: New Insights for Training Practitioners

Alternate Title
Training Approaches: Defining Quality: New Insights for Training Practitioners
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Claude S. Endfield
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 30, no. 1, Indigenous Approaches to Early Childhood Care and Education, 2007, pp. 145-157, 189
Description
Questions what 'quality' early childhood care and education mean in United States schools after an Indigenous Early Childhood Development Symposium was held in Victoria, BC.
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Defining the Native: Local Print Media Coverage of the NMAI

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Akim D. Reinhardt
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Summer-Fall, 2005, pp. 450-465
Description
Commentary in regards to the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on September 22, 2004, particularly the clichés, exclusion and stereotyping.
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Deflected Missives: Zitkala- a's Resistance and Its (Un)Containment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barbara Chiarello
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 1-26
Description
Examines issues of racism and colonization in the essays of Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin). Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
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Defying the Limits

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Curtis J. Collins
Espace Sculpture, no. 19, Sculpture et Anthropologie, Spring, 1992, pp. 34-36
Description
Discusses works from the exhibitions Strengthening the Spirit, Bishop's Moose and the Pinkerton Men and Indians from A to Z. Artists include Jimmie Durham, Ron Noganosh, Domingo Cisneros, and Robert Houle.
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