Defines pragmatism as framework that is centered on problem solving rather than a pursuit of ultimate knowledge, and discusses the ways that Western understandings of pragmatism are influenced by Indigenous philosophy and worldview.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 2, The Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health’s Partnership River of Life, 2019, pp. 15-41
Description
Authors stress that there is a need for interdisciplinary and collaborative community-centered approaches to research and healthcare programming in Indigenous communities. Article notes that transdisciplinary research is one of the three core values of the Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health, and stress the relevance of the social determinants of health.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. [20]-36
Description
Author reflects on the role of non-Indigenous peoples in decolonizing research methods and cultural participation using the core themes of identity and belonging, accountability and consent, and responsibility and appropriation.
Art History Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 2018.
Focuses on the work of Wendy Red Star, Ken Gonzales Day, Meryl McMaster, Chris Bose, Kent Monkman and Da-ka-xeen Mehner.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 95-118
Description
Uses cases studies from Nicaragua and South Africa to compare colonization and imperialistic practices and how these experiences helped with the formation of what the author describes as Indigenous internationalist feminism.
Using the Lokahi Wheel: A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Engage Native Hawaiians in Research Contexts
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tammy Kaho‘olemana Martin
Meripa Godinet
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 7, no. 2, 2018, pp. 22-40
Description
Authors examine the Lōkahi Wheel’s potential as a culturally sensitive tool for use with families engaged in non-voluntary involvement with Hawai’i’s child welfare system.
Article examines the German fascination with North American Indigenous peoples and contemporary Indigenous responses; considers the works of Drew Hayden Taylor and Kent Monkman as practices of survivance and resistance to the “Indianer,” a romanticized German imagining of Indigenous people.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 165-181
Description
Considers Potawatomie’s address at the 1893 World’s Fair, in which he used the platform to expose the realities of the U.S. Government Indian policy, as a rhetorical strategy of resistance and an attempt to garner sympathy from the public at large. Discusses the implications and potential fallout of Potawatomie’s move.
Article explores the posts and comments from three different Blogs by Indigenous women; examines how intersectional rhetoric is constructed and used in these spaces, and how it serves to defend Indigenous rhetorical sovereignty.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 4, Fraud in Native American Communities: Essays in Honor of Suzan Shown Harjo, 2019, pp. 41-54
Description
A re-evaluation of Jimmie Durham's work, taking into account the artist's fraudulent claims to Cherokee ancestry and discussion of the implications for scholars, art critics, collectors, and viewers of his works.
Overview of project which explored practices across Canada and the United States in order to support scholars in ways which would also benefit Indigenous communities. Eleven studies were undertaken by academic libraries with direction from Indigenous scholars and librarians. Provides details on how initiative was developed, designed, and fielded, and highlights key themes which emerged.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 331-340
Description
Author explores the contested historical memory of violent engagement between the Unites States government and Indigenous peoples in the mid to late 1800s, and how those narratives have contributed to the idea of American innocence in relation to the displacement genocide of Indigenous peoples.