Methodologies & Ethics

Looks at how Paula Gunn Allen has constructed a social identity that transforms the borderlands of reader, writer, and text to examine the issues of positionality and essentialism. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Illustrates and reviews how three First Nations women's stories contribute to a national research project and how this method differs from a conventional western scientific approach.

Looks at effective and culture-based approaches to research that is grounded in a holistic methodology from the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional aspects, not only from the researcher's point of view, but also from the community members themselves.

Author reflects on the value of ritual and how a researcher must balance personal involvement and objective observation.

The increased engagement by local youth guided the research process at the community level and contributed to an increased sense of well-being.

Looks at how the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry was conducted and methodology developed by the Inquiry.

Developed to address practices which result in omission, misclassification and inconsistencies in collection methods used by agencies and levels of government.

Guide outlines general considerations, practices and procedures, and provides step-by-step instructions for community engagement sessions. Topics include establishing and earning community support, engagement and consultation activities, communicating with the media, presentation skills, and addressing opposition effectively and respectfully.

Theology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2002.

Discusses the challenges with conducting research on Indigenous communities due to the COVID pandemic.

Book review of: Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors by Frances E. Karttunen and Between Indian and White Worlds edited by Margaret Connell Szasz.

Book review of: Beyond Intellectual Property by Darrell A. Posey and Graham Dutfield.

Uses a participatory-action research model (PAR) to explore the ideas instilled by and the mobilizing potential of the REDress project—a grassroots, collaborative, community art exhibit intended to bring awareness to the issue of MMIW—at St. Francis Xavier University. Researcher partners with StFX Aboriginal Student’s Society.

Authors reproduce an email conversation about race, racialism, and racism in Archaeological practice in the United States that occurred between Indigenous Archaeologists; and further discuss the issues raised in the conversation.

Describes research on social services issues concerning Ojibwa First Nation communities, particularly the high incidence of youth suicide, addiction, and court appearances.

Comments on studies that use a community-based participatory research approach and are designed to address the community needs first and the research needs second.

Organized by articles, conference papers, organizations' publications, and information on legislation and case law. International in scope. Revised version.

Looks at the success or failure of laws and policies that were meant to protect community rights, culture, and material resources and the use of community protocols as tools.

Looks at bioethical aspects of prenatal DNA diagnosis of hereditary diseases.

Discusses how malnourished Aboriginals in Canada served as unwitting and unprotected subjects in government-sponsored experiments in the 1940s and 1950s.

Discussion of Aboriginal belief systems including ethics as an aspect of beliefs and practices.

Mass Communications Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2008.

Exposes an incident where 200 people gave blood to aid research into their diabetes epidemic; the samples were also used to do research into Havasupai genes and schizophrenia, inbreeding, and the Bering Strait theory without their consent. The Havasupai people filed a lawsuit against the Arizona State University for intentional deception.

Book review of: Indigenous Research Methodologies by Bagele Chilisa.

Book review of:Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, edited by Norman Denzin, Yvonna Lincoln and Linda Tuhiwai Smith.

Book review of: For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundation of a Social Ethnic by Georges Sioui.

Book reviews of 6 books: Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 by José Antonio Brandao. Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing by Calvin Morrisseau. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice. "Keeping the Lakes' Way:" Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People by Paul Pryce. Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.

"... shares reflections from participatory action research (PAR) and Indigenous approaches to research (IAR) team members on how they developed personally and professionally through involvement on two Indigenous-focused studies".

Forward to articles in the issue, all of which challenge traditional, Eurocentric notions of legitimate research and received knowledge

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Glasgow, 2010.

Concludes that vaccination rates in targeted groups of an American Indian population were achieved, and suggests that they are comparable to or higher than rates in other U.S populations.

Uses research performed in Nova Scotia to discuss the ways that the two disciplines can contribute each other to create reciprocal improvement and understanding on both sides.

Comments on the ethics of the extent non-Indigenous researchers can respectfully engage the knowledge of Indigenous peoples.

Environmental Education and Communication Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2010.

Author describes the dual identities that artifacts hold: archaeologic subject and cultural object. Addresses how American archaeologists are forced by repatriation legislation to address these issues and to consult and collaborate with Indigenous peoples to bridge the gap between these perceptions of artifacts.

Describes the development of a formal partnership which evolved from a twenty-year working relationship.

Distributed Learning Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2004.

Looks at the merits of university and community collaboration in the development of a community-based healing program for residential school survivors living in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

Literature review of past research, conceptual frameworks, methods and practical experience with indicators in the First Nation context.

Describes the research process and results of a participatory project on how Indigenous girls and the female family members that care for them. Results show that flexible design that allows for intergenerational involvement can prove beneficial for both participants and for researchers.

Describes the process of building research partnerships between universities, community organizations, and Aboriginal communities in urban centres.

Looks at the conflicting accounts of the placement of a Navajo Jish in regards to burial. Jish or medicine bundles are made up sacred items that are used for a variety of reasons in Navajo culture.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2017.

Explores three interrelated ethical issues: current spoken dialect and ancestral language, implications for classroom, and issues for researchers working in Aboriginal fields.

Examines ethnographic survey of Huron-Wyandot culture conducted between 1911-1914.