Indigenous Research Guides & Resources
- Indigenous Information LIteracyThis book outlines best principles for working with Indigenous print and oral sources in academic research. Topics include evaluating Indigenous print sources for credibility and authenticity, finding Indigenous authors, and respectfully working with Elders.
- Data as Relation: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Ethic of CareKayla Lar-Son, Indigenous Services and Programs Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Presented as part of the IASSIST Professional Development webinar series on January 27, 2021
- Informit Indigenous Collection This link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed and other academic journal articles, eBooks, newspapers, and magazines related to Indigenous culture, health, and human geography in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, North America and The Pacific.
- Indigenous Research GuideThis research guide is a starting place for Humber students, faculty and staff to help increase knowledge and understanding about Indigenous research, culture, perspectives, and issues.
Books
Research Is Ceremony by Call Number: GN380 .W554 2008This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice.
Decolonizing Methodologies by Call Number: GN380 .S65 2021This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Decolonizing Data: Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods by Drawing on both western and Indigenous methodologies, this unique scholarly contribution takes both a sociological perspective and the "two-eyed seeing" approach to research methods. By looking at the ways that everyday research practices contribute to the colonization of health outcomes for Indigenous peoples, Decolonizing Data exposes the social dimensions of healthcare and offers a careful and respectful reflection on how to "unsettle conversations" about applied social research initiatives for our most vulnerable groups
Indigenous Research Ethics by This distinctive volume presents Indigenous research as strong and self-determined with theories, ethics and methodologies arising from within unique cultural contexts. The volume also analyses Indigenous/non-Indigenous research partnerships, outlining how they developed respectful and reciprocal relationships of benefit for all, and argues that these kinds of best practice research guidelines are of value to all research communities.
