Evidence in Indigenous research: Contexts for and methods, benefits, and tensions of including Indigenous Knowledges in research, across disciplines
The Project: IndWisdom
Indigenous Knowledges are highly relevant, valuable, scientific, sacred and historical. Indigenous Knowledges are also frequently misunderstood, misused, or oversimplified in Western research contexts.
This project supports the resurgence and assertion of Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing in research contexts and hopes to transform the way academic institutions train future researchers.
Guiding Principles
The project team has established key principles that guide our commitment and how we engage with each other.
Our collective and guiding principles are inspired by the intergenerational mentorship of Elders, Knowledge Holders, and Indigenous scholars on our team.
Interconnected - Recognize that all living things are interconnected.
Ways of Knowing - The research process must be grounded in Indigenous epistemology.
Communities - The purpose of the research is to benefit communities.
Relationships - The research process must be build on respectful and reciprocal relationships at every level.
Integrity - Researchers must recognize that this work will have an impact and therefore must always maintain integrity constantly reflecting on community reciprocity.
Indigenous Knowledge - Indigenous Knowledge is living, sacred, and always transforming.