Community-Held Knowledge: Indigenous Methodologies in Educational Research

• In Event: 32.083 - Roundtable Session 12
  In Roundtable Session: 32.083-16 - Indigenous Education Frameworks in Research: Storytelling and Community Knowledge

Abstract

Grounded in critical and Indigenous pedagogies this paper focuses on anti-deficit model reactions to critiques of Indigenous ways of knowing. Using discourse analysis with students participating in an Indigenous research course, practices that Indigenous communities use to protect their human and cultural resources are evaluated. These include tribal leadership approval, Indigenous methodologies, and Indigenous community accessibility, particularly as they pertain to research within Indigenous communities. These practices are important places of resistance to the effects of colonialism and the subsequent research pertaining to Indigenous communities. Implications include complicating concepts of indigenous identity, knowledge transmission, and stewardship.

Author

• Sweeney Windchief, Montana State University