Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods
Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study demonstrates how this standard can be put into practice. Portraying indigenous researchers as knowledge seekers who work to progress indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing in a constantly evolving context, this examination shows how relationships both shape indigenous reality and are vital to reality itself. These same knowledge seekers develop relationships with ideas in order to...
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Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study demonstrates how this standard can be put into practice. Portraying indigenous researchers as knowledge seekers who work to progress indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing in a constantly evolving context, this examination shows how relationships both shape indigenous reality and are vital to reality itself. These same knowledge seekers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony of maintaining accountability. Envisioning researchers as accountable to all relations, this overview proves that careful choices should be made regarding selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis, and the way in which information is presented.
Acknowledgements 5Foreword and Conclusion 6My Writing Style 8Sequencing of the Book 91 Getting Started 12Introduction 15Purpose of the Book 19Research Question 202 On the Research Journey 22Beginning My Research Saga 22Researcher Background-Introducing the Storyteller 32Definition of Terms 33How I Searched for an Answer to the Question 35Overview of the Dominant Research Paradigms 35Strategy of Inquiry 393 Can a Ceremony Include a Literature Review? 43The Progression of an Indigenous Research Paradigm 44A Chronology of Aboriginal Research 45The Development of an Indigenous Paradigm 52A Shift in Terminology, a Shift in Understanding 54The Criterion for Indigenous Research 554 The Elements of an Indigenous Research Paradigm 62On a Journey with My Friends 62Introducing an Indigenous Research Paradigm 69Elements of an Indigenous Research Paradigm 71Indigenous Ontology and Epistemology 73Indigenous Axiology and Methodology 775 Relationality 80Building Relations at the Indigenous Scholars Conference 81Relations with People 84Relations with the Environment/Land 86Relations with the Cosmos 89Relations with Ideas 916 Relational Accountability 97Ways of Applying an Indigenous Research Paradigm 100Topic: How We Choose What to Study 108Methods: How We Gather Information 110Analysis: How We Interpret Information 116Presentation: How We Transfer Knowledge 1227 Articulating an Indigenous Research Paradigm 126An Indigenous Research Paradigm in Action 127Conclusions 135References 139
