“…I was guided from the start that the research I was conducting had a worthwhile goal: that is to give voice to the voiceless. Who in libraries thinks it's important to interview Indigenous student library users? It had not been done in Canada before. Who in libraries interviews Indigenous faculty about library collections and services? Again, this had not been done in Canada before, and we have Ithaca S+R to thank for that. And who in libraries asks Indigenous librarians to write a chapter or essay about their experience of being Indigenous librarians? So you get the picture. And finally, because conducting this research is not easy and there are many protocols to adhere to, I recognized that ceremony was needed along the way. Many hours of preparation were needed to make sure that research process got done in a good way."
-Deborah Lee on doing research
GUEST INSTRUCTOR: from Deborah Lee's University of Saskatchewan "about" page:
I am a Cree-Métis librarian, originally from Treaty 6 Territory, near Edmonton. The Sturgeon River, extending from Lac Ste. Anne to St. Albert, sustained my family for generations.
I have worked in libraries since the spring of 2000, starting out at the National Library of Canada (which later merged with the National Archives of Canada to become Library and Archives Canada) in Ottawa, and, in 2007, moving to my preferred vocation of academic librarianship at the University of Saskatchewan. I have been involved with many Indigenous librarianship initiatives, including the development and growth of the well-used and well-received Indigenous Studies Portal; subject librarianship in Indigenous Studies; and numerous community initiatives and partnership activities such as building and delivering (with the assistance of Library and University colleagues) the Library ReconciliAction Employee Development Program. I very much enjoy experiencing when Indigenous peoples become literate in library research skills and learn to love their Library!
READINGS:
Lee, Deborah (2019). Research and Indigenous Librarianship. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, Vol. 5, pp. 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v5.29922
Lee, Deborah, Kevin Read, Sarah Rutley, and Catherine Boden (20 October 2020). Data Conversations – Indigenous Data and Its Discontents , Brain-Work: The C-EBLIP Blog: https://words.usask.ca/ceblipblog/2020/10/20/dataconversationsindigenousdata/
ADDITIONAL (from Deborah Lee's class)
We all go back to the land: The Who, why and how of land acknowledgements by Suzanne Keeptwo, Brush Education, 2020.
Storying violence: Unravelling colonial narratives in the Stanley trial by Gina Starblanket and Dallas Hunt, ARP, 2020.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. The Brilliance of the Beaver: Learning from an Anishnaabe World. CBC Ideas 16 April 2020: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-brilliance-of-the-beaver-learning-from-an-anishnaabe-world-1.5534706
FURTHER
Archibald, J. (2008). Indigenous storywork: Educating the heart, mind, body, and spirit. UBC Press.
Archibald, J. (2014). Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit. UBC Press.
Chilisa, B. (2020). Indigenous research methodologies (Second edition.). SAGE.
Chilisa, Bagele. (2012). Indigenous research methodologies. SAGE Publications.
Gehl, L. (2014). The truth that wampum tells: My debwewin on the Algonquin land claims process. Fernwood Publishing.
Kovach, M. (2009). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations and contexts. University of Toronto Press.
Walter, M., Kukutai, T., Carroll, S. R., & Rodriguez-Lonebear, D. (2021). Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429273957
Wilson, S. (2008). Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Fernwood Publishing.
MORE
Cooper, Danielle, et al. (2019). When Research is Relational: Supporting the Research Practices of Indigenous Studies Scholars. Ithaka S+R. https://sr.ithaka.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SR-Report-Research-Support-Services-Indigenous-Studies-04112019.pdf.
Lee, Deborah and David Smith. (2018). University Library Report of the Ithaka S&R Study on Improving Library Resources and Services for Indigenous Studies Scholars: University of Saskatchewan Context.
Lee, Deborah. (2017). "Indigenous Librarians: Knowledge Keepers in the 21st Century," Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 37, No. 1: 175-199.
Lee, Deborah, ed. (2016). The Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples Inc. Committee : Celebrating 25 Years, 1991-2016. Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan.
Lee, Deborah and Mahalakshmi Kumaran, eds. (2014). Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories from Canada. Toronto and New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Lee, Deborah. (2011). "Indigenous Knowledge Organization: A Study of Concepts, Terminology, Structure and (Mostly) Indigenous Voices,"Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2011.
Lee, Deborah. (2008). "Indigenous Knowledges and the University Library," Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 31, No. 1: 149-163.
Lee, Deborah A. (2001). "Aboriginal Students in Canada: A Case Study of Their Academic Information Needs and Library Use," Journal of Library Administration, Vol. 33, No. 3-4: 259-292.