Indigenous Methods Reading List

Overview of the Reading List

Deep engagement with Indigenous Methods can not only catalyze more responsible scholarship about Indigenous communication and media practices but also strengthen relationality with communication/media studies and interdisciplinary Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAISA). Indigenous Methods push for transformation from traditional and unethically complicit ways of doing research on Indigenous and Pacific Islander communication/media practices to de- and anti-colonial methods that align with Indigenous sovereignty, resurgence, futurities, and decolonization. There is an urgent need for deep conversation about what it means to reject complicity with settler colonial and white supremacist research practices and how to more responsibly integrate Indigenous epistemologies, ontologies, futurities, and methodologies into communication/media research. This list offers a starting point for some key readings on Indigenous Methods and Indigenous Communication Methods. There are many more books and articles, so we encourage you to follow the work of authors listed here as well as using the works cited lists to find more resources on specific topics that interest you.

This list was compiled by Dr. Danielle Endres in December 2021.

Books

Kovach, Margaret. Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. Illustrated edition. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2010.

Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2021.

Mihesuah, Devon Abbott. So You Want to Write about American Indians?: A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars. University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. Zed Books, 2006.

Tuck, Eve, and Marcia McKenzie. Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods. 1st edition. Routledge, 2015.

Wilson, Shawn. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood Publishing, 2008.

Windchief, Sweeney, and Timothy San Pedro. Applying Indigenous Research Methods. Routledge, 2019.

Younging, Gregory. Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples. Brush Education, 2018.

Articles

Cordes, Ashley. “Revisiting Stories and Voices of the Rogue River War (1853–1856): A Digital Constellatory Autoethnographic Mode of Indigenous Archeology.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 21, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 56–69.

Na’puti, Tiara R, and Joëlle M Cruz. “Mapping Interventions: Toward a Decolonial and Indigenous Praxis across Communication Subfields.” Communication, Culture and Critique, November 29, 2021, tcab064. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab064.

Riley-Mukavetz, Andrea. “Developing a Relational Scholarly Practice: Snakes, Dreams, and Grandmothers.” College Composition and Communication 71, no. 4 (June 2020): 545–65.

Tuck, Eve. "Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities." Harvard Educational Review 79, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 409-427.

Simpson, Audra. “On Ethnographic Refusal: Indigeneity,‘ Voice’ and Colonial Citizenship.” Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, no. 9 (2007): 67–80.

Yanchapaxi, María Fernanda, Max Liboiron, Katherine Crocker, Deondre Smiles and Eve Tuck. "Finding a good starting place: An interview with scholars in the CLEAR Lab." Curriculum Inquiry 52, no. 2 (2022): 162–70.

Additional Resources

Below is are additional resources, scholarly texts, websites, blog posts, and other materials that may be helpful in exploring Indigenous Methods. Resources were crowd-sourced from ECD members. Suggest a resource be added by emailing the citation information and link (if available) to ECDPublicationsDirector@gmail.com.

Additional resources:

Indigenous Action. (2014, May 4). Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex. https://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/

American Indian and Indigenous Rhetorics: A Digital Annotated Bibliography. Hosted by Kimberly G. Wieser.

ECDigest:

  • Issue 7 themed around Indigenous Environmental Communication

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