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Youth Participatory Action Research and Applied Theatre Engagement: Supporting Indigenous Youth Survivance and Resurgence
By: Diane Conrad and community partners
Category: Abolition of Policing & Prisons

This article looks at three case studies involving applied theatre with Indigenous youth in diverse settings—a rural school, a youth detention center, and a community organization for street-involved youth.

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‘Ohana Ho‘opakele: The Politics of Place in Corrective Environments
By: Brown, M., & Marusek, S.
Category: Abolition of Policing & Prisons, Health, Land

The article explores the innovative approach of ‘Ohana Ho‘opakele, a community-based initiative in Hawai‘i advocating for restorative justice through culturally rooted wellness centers called pu‘uhonua.

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Walls to Bridges: Evolving Our Work Within Carceral Spaces by Rupturing Racism and Oppression Through a Participatory Process
By: Walls to Bridges members
Category: Abolition of Policing & Prisons, Theories of Change

This article explores the collaborative efforts of the Walls to Bridges (W2B) collective in organizing the Evolving Our Work symposium, commemorating W2B's 10th Anniversary. It reflects on participatory planning, highlighting decolonial frameworks and the integration of Indigenous resurgence, Land Back movements, and Black Lives Matter principles.

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Radical Care and Decolonial Futures: Conversations on Identity, Health, and Spirituality with Indigenous Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Youth.
By: Researchers; five youth activists
Category: Health, Queer Life & Wellbeing

This study explores the intersections of identity, health, and spirituality among Indigenous queer, trans, and two-spirit youth amidst the pervasive impacts of colonial violence.

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Survival and Resilience Among Palestinian Women: A Qualitative Analysis Using Individual and Collective Life Events Calendars
By: Researchers; local facilitators; teachers working in the Gaza strip
Category: Gender, Intergenerational Connection

This study is focused on the resilience and survival strategies of Palestinian women living under political oppression and war in Gaza

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Decolonizing qualitative research through transformative community engagement: critical investigation of resilience with Palestinian refugees in the West Bank
By: The Palestinian Refugee Family Trees of Resilience Project
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods, Intergenerational Connection

This study examines the decolonization of qualitative research methods through transformative community engagement, focusing on resilience among Palestinian refugees in the West Bank

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Olive growing in Palestine: A decolonial ethnographic study of collective daily-forms-of-resistance
By: Juman Simaan; four Palestinian olive-growing families
Category: Health, Indigenous Science, Land

This study explores the daily lives of Palestinian olive growers under military occupation, employing decolonial ethnography to examine collective forms of resistance.

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Relationships to land as a determinant of wellness for Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada
By: Danette Jubinville, Janet Smylie, Sara Wolfe, Cheryllee Bourgeois, Nicole S. Berry, Michael Rotondi, Kristen O’Brien, Scott Venners
Category: Gender, Health, Queer Life & Wellbeing

This study took a reproductive justice approach to examine the association between relationships to land and
wellness in a study of urban Indigenous women, two-spirit, trans, and gender-diverse people of reproductive age in Toronto, Canada.

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Ain’t no Justice ... It’s Just Us”: Indigenous and Girls of Color Organizing Against Carceral Feminisms and Carceral State Violence
By: Lena Palacios; Sista II Sista and the Young Women's Empowerment Project
Category: Abolition of Policing & Prisons

Drawing upon grassroots movements, the study underscores the limitations of relying on conventional legal systems and the urgency for community-based transformative justice.

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Shimmers Below the Surface: Emergent Strategy and Movement Building through 2-QTPOC Media
By: Mangos with Chili Collective
Category: Queer Life & Wellbeing

The project examines the role of 2-QTPOC media, particularly through the lens of "Mangos with Chili," in promoting collective liberation, decolonization, and highlighting the intersection of memory and representation. This exploration seeks to understand the transformative potential of such media in the political and cultural landscape.

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Masihambisane, lessons learnt using participatory indigenous knowledge research approaches in a school-based collaborative project of the Eastern Cape.
By: Thenjiwe Meyiwa, Tebello Letsekha, Lisa Wiebesiek
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

Learning from Cofimvaba community’s knowledge systems (IKS), this project seeks to find ways of identifying and making use of local and indigenous knowledge which could benefit the school curriculum.

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Developing arts-based participatory research for more inclusive knowledge co-production in Algoa Bay
By: Mia Strand, Nina Rivers, Rachel Baasch, Bernadette Snow. Khoisan community representatives, subsistence fishers and bait collectors, youth, recreational ocean users, and residents in Algoa Bay. 24 Co-researchers in total.
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Research Methods, Indigenous Science

This article advocates for the use of arts-based participatory research (ABPR) methodology in the context of marine spatial planning (MSP) in Algoa Bay, South Africa.

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Building Capabilities of Youth Through Participatory Oral History Project: The South Hebron Hills, a Palestinian Case Study
By: 30 youth researchers between the ages of 18–28 years
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Research Methods, Intergenerational Connection, Land, Theories of Change

This study examines the impact of a participatory oral history project, "On Our Land," on Palestinian youth in the South Hebron Hills, exploring how it fosters their political and social capabilities.

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Pushing the Limits of Child Participation in Research: Reflections from a Youth-Driven Participatory Action Research (YPAR) Initiative in Uganda
By: --
Category: Health, Theories of Change

This project uses Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and child-driven methods to study violence against children (VAC) and street-connected children in Uganda.

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Nothing about us without us: Community-based participatory research to improve HIV care for mobile patients in Kenya and Uganda
By: Maeri et al., 12 rural communities in Kenya and Uganda
Category: Gender, Health

This project looks at the challenges and barriers mobile populations in Kenya and Uganda face in receiving adequate HIV care.

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Youth Participatory Action Research as a Catalyst for for Health Promotion in a Rural South African School
By: Maite Mathikithela, Lesley Wood, 14 volunteering students in Grade 10
Category: Health, Intergenerational Connection, Theories of Change

This article tackles the poor wellbeing of students in a rural South African High School school using Youth Participatory Action Research as a methodology to address the issues raised by the students.

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The Tipuna Project: Intergenerational Healing, Settler Accountability and Decolonising Participatory Action Research in Aotearoa
By: Rachel Jane Liebert, University of East London / Massey University; Teah Carlson, Massey University; Tia Reihana, University of Auckland; Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton; Tim McCreanor, Massey University; Helen Moewaka-Barnes, Massey University; Adreanne Ormond, Victoria University of Wellington; and Naomi Simmonds, Kahurangi Waititi, Rose Tapsell, Dani Pickering, Holli McEntegart, Lillian Murray, Sarah Hopkinson, Tamsin Leigh
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods, Intergenerational Connection

The Tipuna Project is a creative community-based collaboration between Māori and Pākehā researchers, artists and activists in Aotearoa to experiment with the decolonial possibilities of communing with our Indigenous and settler ancestors.

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The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak: Reclamation, Regeneration, Reconciliation
By: William Dumas, Mavis Reimer, Roland Bohr, Warren Cariou, Margaret Dumas, Scott Hamilton, Erin Spring, Larry Tait, Doris Wolf, Melanie Braith, Jill Taylor-Hollings, Naomi Hamer, Margaret Mackey, Eric Meyers
Category: Indigenous Education, Intergenerational Connection, Land

The Six Seasons project aims to support the ongoing work of reclaiming Indigenous languages, histories, and knowledges among the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak (the Rocky Cree). It does so through the creation of a series of historical picture books, picture book apps, and teacher’s guides.

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Elders + -
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Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Research Partnerships
By: Professor Rosalind Edwards, University of Southampton, UK / Professor Helen Moewaka Barnes, Massey University, New Zealand / Professor Deborah McGregor, York University, Canada / Dr. Tula Brannelly, Bournemouth University, UK / Christine Garrington, researchpodcasts.co.uk / Olivia Hicks, comic artist, University of Dundee, UK
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

Our project producing a set of visual, audio and textual resources to support Indigenous and non-indigenous researchers planning research collaborations to think about their methods, assumptions and behaviour .

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Methods and Results in Language Documentation using Literary Digital Editions
By: Ajpub' Pablo García Ixmatá, Saqijix Candelaria López Ixcoy, Beatriz Par Sapón, Aj Xol Héctor Rolando, Juana Cecelia Ixch’umiil García Méndez, Irma Pomol Cahum, Miguel Óscar Chan Dzul, Miriam Utiz May, María Cristina Pech Can, Leídy María Couoh Pomol, Karen Solis Ojeda, Carlos Daniel Cámara Braga, Allison Bigelow, Rafael Alvarado, Lucie Stylianopoulos, Aldo Barriente, Winnie Pérez Martínez, Sofía Marrero
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Research Methods, Indigenous Science

To serve the unique language learning and cultural heritage needs of their communities, Maya K'iche', Q'eqchi', Tz'utujil, and Yukatek scholars are creating print and audiovisual editions of the Popol Wuj. Researchers at the University of Virginia are using free, open source tools to present the texts as interactive digital works that are accessible to users with limited bandwidth.

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From controlling to connecting: M’Wikwedong as a place of urban Indigenous health promotion in Canada
By: Indigenous youth
Category: Health

Indigenous youth created digital storytelling videos that convey how M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre promote health by nourishing relationships. M'Wikwedong's approach contrasts with Western understandings of health promotion that emphasize control over people’s health.

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Nato' we ho win: A Model of Recovery for Indigenous Women to heal from Intimate Partner Violence
By: JoLee Sasakamoose, Carrie LaVallie, & Giesbrecht, C. J., Carleton, N.R.
Category: Gender, Health, Indigenous Research Methods

Reclaiming identity through cultural programming influenced the ability to move away from disruptive factors and build a sense of purpose and meaning. Longitudinal mixed methods consisting of validated quantitative self-report measures, combined with focus groups (conducted in a sharing circle format) encompassed the intervention research study.

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The Rematriation Project
By: Iñupiat
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

The Rematriation Project aims to provide targeted, culturally appropriate capacity building in Inuit communities in NW Alaska that hones, develops, and complements local skills related to digital archiving and digital literacies.

Centering Indigenous scholars in the academy + -
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Ecology & environment + -
Elders + -
Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies + -
Indigenous knowledge in curriculum + -
Indigenous settler relations + -
Land education + -
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Youth + -
Herramienta informática como apoyo en la toma de decisiones en proyectos de agua y saneamiento en comunidades indígenas
By: Villegas González, P., Obregón Neira, N., Lara Borrero, J., Méndez Fajardo, S., Vargas Luna, A.
Category: Indigenous Science

La metodología incluye encuestas e investigación de campo (talleres) en los cuales se caracteriza a la población y la zona de estudio a tráves del un diagnóstico; con esta información se realiza la programación del aplicativo para generar la herramienta desarrollada; posteriormente es validada por la comunidad y con la aternativa seleccionada se inicia el proceso de gestión de recursos, capacitación, construcción, operación y mantenimiento.

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Culturas tradicionales y cambios contemporáneos: el pueblo indígena kokonuco y las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación
By: Acosta Nates, P.
Category: Indigenous Science

Para aprehender el fenómeno en el contexto teórico metodológico de la antropología de la tecnología y la práctica citada se trabajaron tres categorías: tecnología, redes sociales y modelos, a la luz de los pueblos indígenas.

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Acerca de la interacción entre la comunidad indígena Rankülche y los arqueólogos en el área centro-este de La Pampa
By: Arqueología, Pampa, comunidad indígena Rankülche
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Land

A través de entrevistas con diferentes miembros de la comunidad, se pudo conocer las opiniones y puntos de vista con relación a los monumentos conmemorativos del pasado Rankülche. También se efectuaron visitas y reconocimientos de lugares de interés arqueológico con algunos representantes indígenas.

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Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
By: Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi Fasubaa, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Salomey Osei, Freshia Sackey, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa Berhe, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Martinus
Category: Indigenous Science

In this article, the authors provide a diagnose to the problems of machine translation systems for low-resourced languages by reflecting on what agents and interactions are necessary for a sustainable machine translation research process.

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Weaving Indigenous science, protocols, and sustainability science
By: Kyle Powys Whyte, Joseph P. Brewer II, and Jay T. Johnson
Category: Indigenous Science

This article further develops the Weaving Indigenous and Sustainability Sciences to Diversify Our Methods (WIS2DOM) recommendations on how to put Indigenous knowledges in conversation with western science.

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Indigitization: Tools for Digitizing and Sustaining Indigenous Knowledge
By: Alissa Cherry, Sarah Dupont, Gerry Lawson, Michael Wynne, Erica Hernandez-Read, Kayla Lar-Son, and Amy Perrault
Category: Indigenous Science

The Indigitization project is offers support to Indigenous communities regarding the conservation, digitization, and management of Indigenous knowledge.

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The Indigenous Languages Technology project at NRC Canada: An empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software
By: Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain Désilets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Rebecca Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Brian Maracle Owennatékha, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Owennatékha Brian Maracle, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyehténhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Benoît Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, and Heather Souter.
Category: Indigenous Science

This paper describes the first year of the Indigenous Languages Technology (ILT) project which offers a software to support Indigenous communities in preserving and expanding the use of their native language.

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Pueblo Connect
By: Elizabeth Belding, Marisa Duarte, Morgan Vigil-Hayes, and Ellen Zegura
Category: Indigenous Science

This project aims to improve Internet access in rural and Native American reservation communities while also providing support for local capacity building towards digital content creation.

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Project George: An Indigenous Land-Based Approach to Resilience for Youth
By: Janice Cindy Gaudet
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Science, Land

This article discusses how land-based learning initiatives can provide a better understanding of Indigenous resilience within the context of Indigenous resilience to colonial violence.

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SING: Summer internship for Indigenous peoples in Genomics
By: Maui Hudson, Kimiora Henare, Phillip Wilcox, Tala Mitchell, Kim TallBear, Jessica Kolopenuk and SING United States organizers.
Category: Health, Indigenous Science

The Summer Internship for Indigenous Peoples in Genomics (SING) strives to promote higher Indigenous representation in genomics through providing communities with innovative, culturally relevant, and Indigenous-led mentorship and training.

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Indigenous Peoples and Environmental (In)Justice
By: Deborah McGregor, Sarah Afriyie, Rachel Arsenault, Casey Bas, David Bazargan, Dali Carmichael, Tara Chandran, Jayce Chiblow, Pippa Feinstein, Leora Gansworth, Dan Kendure, Angelika Kuzma, Aamina Masood, Ethan Persaud-Quiroz, Samantha Pugliese, Mahisha Sritharan, and Noah Verhoeff
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Science, Land

The Indigenous Peoples and Environmental (In)Justice project comprises a series of Indigenous-led research activities that employ Indigenous knowledges to the investigation of environmental injustices.

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Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper
By: Jason Edward Lewis, Hēmi Whaanga, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Ashley Cordes, Suzanne Kite, Corey Stover, Melita Stover Janis, Michelle Lee Brown, Caroline Running Wolf, Michael Running Wolf, Noelani Arista, Caleb Moses, Joel Davison.
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Science

This position paper presents a diverse set of texts that centers Indigenous concerns in their engagements with artificial intelligence.

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We All Take Care of the Harvest (WATCH)
By: First Nations Health Authority
Category: Health, Indigenous Science, Land

This project is based on participatory research on seafood safety and marine pollution at British Columbia. The researchers are interested in stablishing a seafood safety monitoring program that is in accordance with the principles of sovereignty for coastal First Nations.

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Practices for braiding Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science for research and monitoring of terrestrial biodiversity in Canada
By: Allyson K. Menzies, Ella Bowles, M. Gallant, H. Patterson, Cory Kozmik, Susan Chiblow, Deborah McGregor, A. Ford, and Jesse N. Popp
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Science, Land

Based on the experience organizing the workshop “Connecting Guardians in a Changing World” (2019), the authors provide a set of practices to weave together Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science regarding research and monitoring of terrestrial biodiversity in Canada.

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CLEAR: Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
By: Max Liboiron, Charlotte Florian, Hillary Bradshaw, Christina Crespo, Edward Allen, Domenica Lombeida, Arif Abu, Mel Flynn, Alexander Flynn, Brittany Schaefer, Sophia Jaworski, Joe Wark, Girish Daswani, Deondre Smiles, Mukhtara Yusuf, Dani Nowosad, Riley Cotter, and collaborators
Category: Indigenous Science, Land, Theories of Change

The Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) is an Indigenous-led feminist and anticolonial laboratory conducting research on social and natural sciences related to environmental justice, especially plastic pollution.

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Shifting the Framework of Canadian Water Governance through Indigenous Research Methods
By: Rachel Arsenault, Sibyl Diver, Deborah McGregor, Aaron Witham, and Carrie Bourassa
Category: Indigenous Research Methods, Indigenous Science, Land

This article describes the best practices and lessons learned from Indigenous-led community-based water monitoring initiatives that is rooted in Indigenous laws and is a practical expression of Indigenous water governance.

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Using participatory research to communicate environmental health risks to First Nations communities in Canada
By: Donald Sharp, Andrew Black, Judy Mitchell, The Assembly of First Nations
Category: Health, Indigenous Science, Land

This article presents three successful Indigenous environmental health projects that used participatory research in their methodology.

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Community Food Security in Pictou Landing First Nation
By: Jordan Francis and other members of the community of Pictou Landing, Janna MacKay, Irena Knezevic, and collaborators
Category: Health, Indigenous Science

This report delineates the key challenges and opportunities to better food security and Indigenous health in Pictou Landing.

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Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) as industrial and settler colonial structures: Towards a decolonial feminist approach
By: Vanessa Gray, Beze Gray, Michelle Murphy, Kristen Bos, Reena Shadaan, and collaborators.
Category: Health, Indigenous Science, Land

The researchers work with Aamjiwnaang community members to collect data and assess the history and operations of the Imperial Oil Refinery in Sarnia.

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Protocol for the Yapatjarrathati project: a mixed-method implementation trial of a tiered assessment process for identifying fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in a remote Australian community
By: Shanley, Dianne C., Erinn Hawkins, Marjad Page, Doug Shelton, Wei Liu, Heidi Webster, Karen M. Moritz , et al
Category: Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

In this project, researchers and the community co-designed a culturally sensitive assessment process for identifying Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

Indigenous settler relations + -
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Community Based Participatory Research as a Long-Term Process: Reflections on Becoming Partners in Understanding Social Dimensions of Mining in the Yukon
By: Gertrude Saxinger, First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Mayo, Yukon
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

This article is based on experiences in LACE (Labour Mobility and Community Participation in the Extractive Industries), a research project that took place in the Yukon from 2014 to 2018.

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Mapping the biopolitics of school dropout and youth resistance
By: Jessica Ruglis
Category: Health, Indigenous Education, Theories of Change

Adding to existing research on school dropout as a public health issue, this study moves to position school non-completion as a form of biopower, and both a physiologically and psychically health-protecting act.

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Collaborative and Participative Research: Accountability and the Indigenous Voice
By: Bronwyn Rossingh
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

The author reflects on an experience in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia, with community members rewording an application form for government funding, creating a version with less jargon and unnecessary repetition.

Economics + -
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Indigenous settler relations + -
Laying the Groundwork: A Practical Guide for Ethical Research with Indigenous Communities
By: Julia K. Riddell, Angela Salamanca, Debra J. Pepler, Shelley Cardinal, Onowa McIvor
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research

This article outlines four ethical guidelines for conducting research. They offer recommendations for those who are planning to conduct research with Indigenous Peoples.

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Te Tātua o Kahukura: A National Project Report to Ako Aotearoa
By: Leonie Pihama, Jenny Lee-Morgan, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Sarah Jane Tiakiwai, Joeliee Seed-Pihama
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods, Theories of Change

This research aimed to better understand the career development needs of Maori and Indigenous (MAI) early career scholars. Values and practices emerged that could provide a foundation for post-doctoral supports and programs.

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Inuit involvement in developing a participatory action research project on youth, violence prevention, and health promotion
By: Marika Morris
Category: Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research

This article outlines a participatory action research project involving Inuit youth in addressing violence prevention and health promotion. The guiding principles that were developed incorporate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit societal values).

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Empowering Indigenous voices in disaster response: Applying the Mauri Model to New Zealand's worst environmental maritime disaster
By: Te Kipa Kepa Brian Morgan, Tumanako Ngawhika Fa'aui
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods, Indigenous Science, Land

This article looks at the disaster response in 2011 when the MV Rena ran aground on Otaiti, a reef located 27 kilometres off the coast of New Zealand, bringing a cultural perspective to the environmental restoration process.

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Leadership, colonization, and tradition: Identity and economic change in Ruatoki and Ruatahuna
By: James H. Liu, Pou Temara
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Land

Maori communities thrive when they have collective control over their land and its resources. Individual land-ownership has benefitted a few individuals but to the detriment of the community.

Economics + -
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Constructing research from an indigenous Kaupapa Māori perspective: An example of decolonising research
By: Alayne Mikahere‐Hall
Category: Gender, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods, Intergenerational Connection

In this study with Maori mothers and their collective experience of intimate partner violence, methods and principles are utilized which follow Kaupapa Maori methodology.

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Developing first nations child welfare standards: using evaluation research within a participatory framework
By: Brad McKenzie
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Intergenerational Connection

The research points to changes that should be made in policy and how child welfare is conceptualized in Canada and the need for culturally relevant care and services for Indigenous children and their families.

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Transforming Indigenous research: Collaborative responses to historical research tensions
By: Peter J. Mataira
Category: Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods, Theories of Change

The author includes a discussion of Indigenous and allied 'co-conspirator' partnerships and offers the example of strengths-enhancing evaluation research (SEER) as a research model.

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Acknowledging the Māori cultural values and beliefs embedded in rongoā Māori healing
By: Glenis Mark, Kerry Chamberlain, Amohia Boulton
Category: Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods, Indigenous Science

The project used a Kaupapa Maori approach to the research process and design and involved semi-structured narrative interviews with 17 rongoa Maori healers. Findings point to the role of healers as mediators of the healing process.

Cultural Health Practices + -
Indigenous interview methods + -
Kaupapa Maori + -
"Look It, This is how You Know:" Family Forest Walks as a Context for Knowledge-Building About the Natural World
By: Ananda Marin, Megan Bang
Category: Indigenous Research Methods, Intergenerational Connection, Land

Using interaction analysis, this article looks at a Native American family's experience on a walk in an urban forest. The authors develop a methodology of walking, reading, and storying land.

Children and families + -
Climate justice + -
Land education + -
Designing Pedagogies for Indigenous Science Education: Finding Our Way to Storywork
By: Marin, Ananda, Bang, Megan
Category: Indigenous Education, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Science, Land

In order for science education to be 'culturally sustaining and revitalizing' teachers need the opportunity to engage in community-based exploration of Western and Indigenous sciences and incorporate storytelling into their research and pedagogy

Community-based design research + -
Ecology & environment + -
Indigenous knowledge in curriculum + -
Science Education + -
Story-telling + -
A critical exploration of a collaborative Kaupapa Māori consistent research project on physician-assisted dying
By: Phillipa Malpas, Anneka Anderson, Julie Wade, Rawiri Wharemate, Dolly Paul, Pio Jacobs, Takawai Jacobs, Jim Rauwhero, Danielle Lunistra
Category: Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

There is a gap in research on Maori attitudes towards physician-assisted dying. This collaborative research explored the topic using interviews and focus groups with Maori elders.

Cultural Health Practices + -
Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies + -
Indigenous interview methods + -
Modifying Photovoice for community-based participatory Indigenous research
By: Heather Castleden, Theresa Garvin
Category: Health, Land

This project used community-based participatory research to document the health and environmental issues faced by the community. This was done using Photovoice, photographs taken by the participants, and interviews.

Art-making + -
Ecology & environment + -
PAR + -
Addressing the realities of health care in northern aboriginal communities through participatory action research
By: Brue Minore, Margaret Boone, Mae Katt, Peggy Kinch, Stephen Birch
Category: Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research

A five-year retrospective study of oncology, diabetes, and mental health patient data. Findings point to the undervalued role that paraprofessionals play in delivering health care, as well as a need for improving mental health support.

PAR + -
Technology outcomes + -
"Yarning" as a Method for Community-Based Health Research with Indigenous Women: The Indigenous Women’s Wellness Research Program
By: Melissa Walker, Bronwyn Fredericks, Kyly Mills, Debra Anderson
Category: Gender, Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research, Indigenous Research Methods

Based on research with the Indigenous Women's Wellness Project in Brisbane, Australia, this study explores 'Yarning' as a method for community-based health research.

Indigenous interview methods + -
Indigenous settler relations + -
Implementation framework for chronic disease intervention effectiveness in Māori and other Indigenous communities
By: John Oetzel, Nina Scott, Maui Hudson, Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Moana Rarere, Jeff Foote, Angela Beaton, Terry Ehau
Category: Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research

A review of 13 diabetes prevention studies in Indigenous communities in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Findings included how culture centeredness and community engagement can improve diabetes outcomes.

Kaupapa Maori + -
Indigenous Knowledge Translation: Baseline Findings in a Qualitative Study of the Pathways of Health Knowledge in Three Indigenous Communities in Canada
By: Janet Smylie, Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Kelly McShane, Métis Nation of Ontario—Ottawa Council, Pikwakanagan First Nation &Tungasuvvingat Inuit Family Resource Centre
Category: Health, Indigenous Ethics of Research

This study used a participatory action research framework to look at how health information was disseminated and used within three Indigenous communities - one urban Inuit, one urban Métis, and one semi-rural First Nations community.

Cultural Health Practices + -
PAR + -
inVISIBILITY: Indigenous in the city Indigenous artists, Indigenous youth and the project of survivance
By: Susan D. Dion Lenape/Potawatomi, Angela Salamanca
Category: Indigenous Education

In the exhibit, one student's story describes how 'school didn't fit me, and then I didn't fit school' (p. 171), a theme which is further explored throughout the paper alongside the concept of survivance.

Art-making + -
Centering Indigenous scholars in the academy + -
Youth + -
Co-designing an mHealth tool in the New Zealand Māori community with a “Kaupapa Māori” approach
By: Lisa Te Morenga1, Crystal Pekepo, Callie Corrigan, Leonie Matoe, Rangimarie Mules, Debbie Goodwin, Anelle Dymus, Megan Tunks, Jacqui Grey, Gayl Humphrey, Andrew Jull, Robyn Whittaker, Marjolein Verbiest, Ridvan Firestone, Cliona Ni Mhurchu
Category: Health

This study utilizes co-design and kaupapa Maori research approaches to design a healthy lifestyle app. A holistic view of health was emphasized: one that centred on family well-being, as well as on maintaining connections to people and to place.

Cultural Health Practices + -
Kaupapa Maori + -
Technology outcomes + -
The Kòts'iìhtła ("We Light the Fire") Project
By: Sahar Fanian, Stephanie K. Young, Mason Mantla, Anita Daniels, Susan Chatwood
Category: Theories of Change

This article is an evaluation of the Kòts’iìhtła ('We Light the Fire') project, a 5-day creative art and music workshop for youth in Behchokò, NWT. Arts is a catalyst for discussing issues and visions in their community and lives.

Art-making + -
Violence prevention + -
Youth + -
Cultural Processes in Science Education: Supporting the Navigation of Multiple Epistemologies
By: Megan Bang, Douglas Medin