Indigenous Research Design is an interdisciplinary text that explores how researchers reimagine research paradigms, frameworks, designs, and methods. Building upon the theories and research teachings presented by Indigenous Peoples in Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies, editors Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Nathan D. Martin present practical formations and applications of Indigenous research for a variety of community, student, professional, and educational projects.
With contributions from a broad selection of Indigenous scholars across disciplines and continents, this collection shares research stories and innovations directly linked to Indigenous Peoples’ lived experiences. The contributors ask researchers to rethink how their work is gathered, interpreted, and presented while providing guidance for how Indigenous knowledges and critiques inform each element and stage of the research process. This volume aims to inspire new and Indigenous-led ways of thoughtfully developing research questions, conceptualizing qualitative research paradigms, and collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data.
Equipped with chapter learning objectives, critical reflection questions, chapter glossaries, and featuring a foreword written by Manulani Aluli Meyer, this engaging text is a vital addition to the field of research methods and essential reading for any aspiring and established researchers, including university and college students who encounter qualitative and mixed-methods research in their respective disciplines.
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centres Indigenous experiences and knowledges in rethinking research methodologies and practices along with offering guidance for recognizing and practicing Indigenous worldviews and epistemologies throughout each stage of the research process
a practical complementary text to the theoretical Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Research Methodologies
Artist Statement Eliza Naranjo-Morse
Foreword Manulani Aluli Meyer
Part I – Indigenous Research Designs: Methodologies, Contexts, and Visions Chapter 1 – Design for Life: Decoloniality and Research for Infinite Possibility Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Nathan D. Martin Chapter 2 – On Reframing or Transcending Colonial and Other Patterns in Life Pōkā Laenui, with Puanani Burgess Chapter 3 – Shaping Research Preparation and Design Through Indigenous Storywork Jo-Ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem and Sara Florence Davidson Chapter 4 – Deciding in Relation with Community: An Indigenous Studies Critique of the Canadian Indigenous Methodologies Field Chris Andersen and Chelsea Gabel
Part II – Research Questions: Origins of Thought, Epistemologies, and Purposes Chapter 5 – Killing Kin/Haunting Life: Towards Indigenous Vocabularies of Loss and Repair María Elena García Chapter 6 – Re-imagining Two Laws within Indigenous Research: Truth Telling Beyond Australia’s Climate Crisis in South West Gulf Country, Northern Territory Jason De Santolo and Gadrian Hoosan Chapter 7 – Ngā hua o te wānanga: The Fruits of wānanga Paula Toko King and Donna Cormack Chapter 8 – Kakala Research Framework: a Garland in Celebration of a Decade of Re-educating, Reconceptualizing, Re-thinking, and Redesigning Seu’ula Johansson-Fua
Part III – Research Lenses and Research Approaches: Relationships, Innovations, and De-linkings Chapter 9 – Naagdowendiwin as a Methodological Approach to Research Lorrilee McGregor and Susan Manitowabi Chapter 10 – Māori Data is a Taonga Karaitiana Taiuru Chapter 11 – Pueblo Reclamation of Indigenous Research Design Amanda J. Montoya and Rachell Tenorio Chapter 12 – Indigeneity as Analytic: Recentring Ethnography through Indigenous Experience M. Bianet Castellanos Chapter 13 – Using A Guarani-Window to Decolonize Qualitative Research in Rural Paraguay Melissa Ramos Vaesken
Part IV – Researcher Positionalities and Ethics: Ontologies Beyond Identity Chapter 14 – Putting Research into the Heart: Relationality in Lakota-Based Research Kaylen J. James, with Kellyn J. James Chapter 15 – Walking in My Mother’s Footsteps: Nêhiýaw Resurgence Research Linda Diffey Chapter 16 – Afrocentric Research Ethics: Decolonial Possibilities for Indigenous Research and Research Design C.M. Cyprian Chapter 17 – Confronting Academic Colonialism: Reflections on my Role as an Ainu Researcher Kanako Uzawa
Part V– Research Partnerships and Research Applications: Holographic Epistemologies and Pluriversalities Chapter 18 – Marriage of Emancipation by Turning to the Tindanam: Research that Moves with the Movement in Indigenous Resistance to Large-Scale Mining in Upper East Region of Ghana Coleman Agyeyomah and Jonathan Langdon Chapter 19 – Engaged Ethnographic Research with Indigenous Communities: Insights from a Language Policy Study in Nepal Prem Phyak Chapter 20 – Tribal-University Partnership Methodology for Re-Searching with Manoomin/Psiŋ Madeline Nyblade, Joe Graveen, Melonee Montano, Bazile Panek, and Hannah Jo King Chapter 21 – Full Scientific and Indigenous Rigor: Lessons from a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial with Two Tribal Nations Dakotah Lane, Tahnee Kawakone, Katrina Rodriguez, R. Scott McClelland, and William L. Freeman Chapter 22 – “You Walk with People, Not Above, Not Below, with Them”: Designing Indigenous Teacher Research for Tribal Nation Building Vanessa Anthony-Stevens, Iva Moss, Shawna Campbell-Daniels, and Angela Como Jacobson
Epilogue Elizabeth Sumida Huaman with Nathan D. Martin
Biography
Elizabeth Sumida Huaman (Wanka/Quechua) is an Associate Professor of Comparative and International Development Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Nathan D. Martin is an Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.
“A unique collection that considers multiple ways of conducting Indigenous-based approaches to research and honours perspectives from various Indigenous researchers from across the globe.”
—Dr. Marlyn Bennett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
"This text showcases diversity of Indigenous research approaches and how together they enrich knowledge construction, application, and sharing to establish sustainable knowledge justice and positive social change locally and globally."
—Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri, Sociology Professor, Social Sciences Department at Camosun College and author of First Nations Students Talk Back: Voices of a Learning People
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