Methodologies & Ethics

Related material: First Nations in Quebec and Labrador's Research Protocol.

Information on organization which conducts surveys with.on-reserve and northern First Nations communities. Surveys include the First Nations Regional Early Childhood, Education and Employment Survey, First Nations Community Survey, and the First Nations Regional Health Survey.

Website by June Kaminski provides information & links related to the traditional methods of informal & formal Aboriginal education.

Brief description of the history of the Regional Longitudinal Health Survey and the code of ethics associated with it.

Library Science and Information Studies Thesis(M.L.I.S.)--Dalhousie University, 2008.

Includes both quantitative and qualitative information gathered from across the country. Qualitative findings are arranged under the following headings: reimaging representation, embedding Indigenous values, increasing Indigenous opportunities, and two-way caretaking of cultural material. Related material: Roadmap for Enhancing Indigenous Engagement in Museums and Galleries.

Includes policies from the 2005 version with extensive recommendations for additions and revisions.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2000.

Book review of First Person Plural by Sophie McCall. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 229.

Book review of: First Person Plural by Sophie McCall. Book review located by scrolling to page 190.

Looks at a research network developed through the collaboration of universities, agencies and communities in British Columbia to provide research training and resources for Indigenous people working in Indigenous child well-being and research.

Indigenous Relations Thesis (MIR)--Laurentian University, 2018.

Natural Resources Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2012.

Booklet 2: Culture, Identity, Language and Wellness

Booklet 3: Education, Skills and Aspirations

Booklet 4: Success Factors and Obstacles to Employment

Booklet 5: Occupation and Employment

Booklet 6: Income and Needs Assessment

Indigenous Peoples Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Article examines the work being done at the Makah Cultural and Research Centre on the Makah Reservation, in the context of Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies.

Looks at subjects researched and how research has changed from 1976 to 2016.

Introductory article to themed issue on the early demise of the Social Transition in the North (STN) study.

Authors discuss their experience using community-based participatory research methods to carry out an elders needs assessment project

Looks at the processes used in areas of research, program and service development and implementation and policy development.

Looks at a scientific theory of language and learning between linguistic researchers, postcolonial scholars, and Aboriginal language activists to preserve and teach Algonquian languages.

Examples from fieldwork in the region are used to demonstrate the utility of the Foucaultian approach when conducting Indigenous research.

Outlines four guiding principles that should be followed for research with Aboriginals and are sensitive to participants' rights.

Comments on a novel methodology that has significance for future program development to meet the needs of at-risk adolescents.

An overview of the guidelines that researchers need to follow in order to collaborate with Indigenous groups for academic research.

Professional commentary in which the author describes how psychiatrists working with Indigenous people in Canada can draw on Fanon’s work on the intersections of colonialism, racism, and psychiatry in order to provide higher quality mental health care services.

Discusses the problems associated with anthropological research in court cases involving fishing in British Columbia.

Examines the ethical responsibilities of non-Native researchers working in Native American communities.

See Part 3: "Knowledge Sovereignty: Indigenous Resistance and Resiliencies".

Reports on two action research projects of the Community-Based Master of Education program at the University of Regina.

Description of community-based research project which took place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and combined methods such as photovoice, talking circle interviews, and Indigenous methodologies. Goal was to identify challenges and indicators for healthy youth in an urban environment.

Explains how to conduct land use research studies that meet the demands of academic requirements and simultaneously respects the Aboriginal communities participating. The article focuses on one specific example, that of the Long Lake First Nation.

Discusses the challenges faced by tribal librarians as they work to teach information literacy in both mainstream news and social media outlets while incorporating traditional or Indigenous knowledge and teachings.

Report from a seminar in Kárášjohka, Norway, November 23-24, 2006. Looks at the process of establishing ethics standards for Sámi research.

Reflects on the process used to engage communities in two community-based research projects.

Book review of: The Frozen Family From the Utqiagvik Site, Barrow, Alaska symposium papers by various authors.

Article provides a brief history of Indigenous ethics, reviews the paucity of health research for Métis populations, critiques understandings of community and discusses possible solutions.

Describes Alaska's Southcentral Foundation's Public Relations department and its communication strategies and discusses feedback from attendees to the 2016 Alaska Native Health Research Forum about these methods.

Discusses some of the issues of the beginnings of Native and Indigenous studies. The article also suggests that what one needs to look at more precisely is at what people mean when they talk about those beginnings, namely specific figures and practices within indigenous traditions.

Looks at the challenges facing the growth of research incorporating indigenous knowledge (IK) and recommends the continued promotion of a holistic approach.

Looks at the importance of surveys as a tool for information regarding water governance, water quality and community connections to water.

Police Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 2012.

Results of project showed that the Indigenous perspective was more wholistic than the mainstream and encompassed community safety, environment, beliefs, kinship patterns, social arrangements, and norms of individual, familial and social conduct. Includes case study of a project which failed to move forward because researchers refused to sign a Research Collaboration Agreement. Related material: Ganohonyohk Tool.

Looks at community-based research from a position of place when working with and for Aboriginal people.

Discusses key health issues impacting women and potential research questions.