Methodologies & Ethics

Discusses collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak in mounting the exhibit Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People.

Argues that Aboriginal students experience tensions between Indigenous knowledge and academic knowledge and terminology and institutions should be adapting to their values.

Article identifies western presence and refers to a Mãori understanding of absence.

Looks at evidence-based approaches to tobacco control.

Looks at a case study to identify areas where future discussion is needed to improve the understanding and meaning of knowledge translation in Aboriginal health research.

Reviews anthropological approaches to cannibalism.

Reports on methodological recommendations gathered through focus group discussions with healthcare providers from six Aboriginal health organizations in Ontario.

Explores a research project at the U of S that presents examples of how the research team has endeavoured to clarify and exemplify what the Indigenous humanities are and what they can do to help reclaim Indigenous knowledges and pedagogies for education.

Discusses the success of a First Nation community-based Aboriginal restorative justice program using Canim Lake as a case study.

Looks at how conceptual tools can be used in Indigenous education research.

Looks at how each research partnership is unique with its own processes and solutions to issues.

Reflects on the personal experiences and feelings in an effort to assist others in a successful journey.

Features and importance of indigenous research methodologies including definitions are presented.

Indigenous author offers their thoughts and advice on how to have a career academia to the larger community of Indigenous scholars.

Authors describe their process of decolonizing their research practice in British Columbia over an extended period of time. Highlights the need for researchers to develop collaborative partnerships with Indigenous communities.

Health Promotion Studies Thesis (M.S)--University of Alberta, 2014.

Speaker discusses her curatorial practices with special reference to developing the exhibition Through Their Eyes: Paintings from the Santa Fe Indian School.

Indigenous Studies Thesis (MPhil)--UiT Arctic University of Norway, 2019.

Author uses a personal essay to discuss basic tenets of Indigenous knowledge, ways of knowing, and ontological constructs; uses Líl̓wat language concepts to help illustrate her points. Highlights experiential and action based teaching and learning, relational understanding, and the concepts of flux, balance.

Discusses the CART model and the effectiveness of community-based research addressing social issues based on a community in the Northwest Territories.

Looks at Indigenous academics and scholars and their responsibilities. Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.

Article explores the community-based practice of creating place-based museums to house the artifacts recovered from archaeological sites in the Oaxaca region of Mexico, argues these institutions validate local knowledges and traditions and function as means to promote education and cultural understanding.

Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.

Comments on an institute designed around the 4 R's of success in higher education environments: relevance, reciprocity, responsibility, and respect.

Explores methodologies which seek to inform and persuade courts and legislators while encompassing Aboriginal concepts of rights.

Argues a code of ethics is needed for the development of a science policy.

Report draws on the findings of 28 knowledge synthesis reports, and insights from exchanges between researchers and leaders from Indigenous communities and the public, private and non-profit sectors. Results are listed under six themes: Indigenous research; arts, language and culture; teaching and learning; community and social well-being; economic self-determination and business; self-governance, Indigenous law and resource rights.

Discusses how academic research and training can better meet the developmental needs of the community.

Argues that to understand suicide in First Nations there must be more of a shift away from the current quantitative methods to that of qualitative, including listening to the voices of the people themselves.

Review of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

Examines the practice of participatory research in primary care, public health and health promotion.

Philosophy Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1996.

Leadership and Training Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2007.

Article draws on a multi-year collaborative community study to articulate Indigenous understandings of and perspectives on the practice of FPIC in a Canadian Context.

Brief review of nine principles for community based participatory research and offers a description of the context of a long-term relationship with Standing Buffalo First Nation in Saskatchewan.

Natural Resources Management Thesis (M.N.R.M.)--University of Manitoba, 2001.

Paper establishes the use of methodology that increases the accuracy in understanding historic infectious disease episodes.

Case studies examine innovative models which provide career programs for secondary school students. Recommendations for action are included.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Ottawa, 2004.

Discusses issues in defining and testing factors when combining traditional knowledge with "Western science" research methods in the North.

Argues that traditional indigenous knowledge needs to be respected and protected so that it is neither used out of context nor used inappropriately by researchers. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.

Authors share stories and experiences integrating decolonizing frameworks into social work practices.

Author analyzes ways in which settler colonialism manifests and can be explored through actions, self-reflection and relationships; discusses the process of self-decolonization and its implications for relationship-building between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Includes links to policies, projects and initiatives, research protocols, select bibliography, case studies and tools.

Based on three sources: literature review; interviews with traditional knowledge researchers and Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) members and staff; and case study of the Biodiversity Traditional Knowledge Study. Revised edition.

Author uses two case studies one in Bangladesh and the other in Saskatchewan to provide the importance of storytelling as a research method.