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The transnational perspectives offered in Indigenous Research Methodologies by Bagele Chilisa make this book not only a valuable resource for university- and community-based research and engagement, but also one with practical and wide-reaching appeal for scholars, community researchers, and graduate students. Bagele Chilisa, a Botswanabased scholar, undertakes an extensive examination of Indigenous methodologies that draws on theories and practices from a variety of cultural and academic contexts. Her examples range across African proverbs and songs, Indigenous story-telling and mixed research methods including Indigenized Euro-Western approaches.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspectives - especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities, the second edition of Indigenous Research Methodologies situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context to make visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of social science research"--

Indigenous Research As Resistance

Indigenous communities across Canada have established principles to guide ethical research within their respective communities. Thorough cataloging and description of these would inform university research ethics boards, researchers, and scholars and facilitate meaningful research that respects Indigenous-defined ethical values. A scoping study was conducted of all relevant peer-reviewed literature and public-facing Indigenous research ethical guidelines from First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities and organizations in Canada. A total of 20 different Indigenous research ethics boards, frameworks, and protocols were identified. Analysis resulted in three key themes: (1) balancing individual and collective rights; (2) upholding culturally-grounded ethical principles; and (3) ensuring community-driven/self-determined research. Findings demonstrate how employment of Indigenous ethical principles in research positively contributes to research outcomes.

Critical Perspectives on Indigenous Research

In recent years, "indigenous research" and "indigenous methods" have become prominent themes in the general field of qualitative methodology. These ideas and their implications raise serious questions for the wider conduct of social research. We will outline some of those ideas, subjecting them to scrutiny, and ultimately using them to question the rise of Romanticism in contemporary social methodology. We develop these ideas to question the contemporary emphasis on the personal and the experiential in current methodological commentary.

This commentary discusses the framing of the production of a series of online text-based and visual resources aimed at researchers embarking on Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partnerships, and in particular supporting non-Indigenous researchers to think about our/their methods, assumptions and behaviour. We identify the tension in mainstream funding for such partnerships, and discuss the implications of Northern epistemological claims to agendas and universality as against Southern epistemologies acknowledging diversity and challenging oppressions. We note the distinct bases for Indigenous methodologies. Our commentary outlines and illustrates the online downloadable resources produced by our own Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partnership, including a video/audio recording, a comic, and blog posts, addressing decolonized collaborative practice.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction (James Salvo) -- Chapter 1: Fish fry methodology: A relational land-based approach to research and reconciliation (Lana (Waaskone Giizhigook) Ray, Paul N. Cormier, and Leisa Desmoulins) -- Chapter 2: Concerning disconnects: The place of secondary analysis in Indigenous research (Rachel Louise Burrage) -- Chapter 3: The Sámi people in Norway: Historical marginalisation and assimilation, contemporary experiences of prejudice, and a new truth commission (Stephen James Minton and Hadi Lile) -- Chapter 4: Traditional storytelling: An effective Indigenous research methodology and its implications for environmental research (Ranjan Datta) -- Chapter 5: Pictures in the paint: The significance of memories for Indigenous researchers (Tina M. Bly) -- Chapter 6: Walking the walk: Honouring lives to counter violence (Leisa Desmoulins) -- Chapter 7: Beyond the IRB: Relational accountability in African-American educational research (Robert L. Graham) -- Chapter 8: Evoking Indigenous poiesis: An Indigenous métissage (Vicki Lynn Kelly) -- Chapter 9: Stəqpistns iʔ pqlqin / kihew omīkwan: Eagle Feather (Joseph Naytowhow, Virginie Magnat, Vicki Lynn Kelly, and Mariel Belanger) -- About the Authors -- Index.

Indigenous communities and federal funding agencies in Canada have developed policy for ethical research with Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous scholars and communities have begun to expand the body of research regarding their peoples, and novel and innovative methods have begun to appear in the published literature. This review attempts to catalogue the wide array of Indigenous research methods in the peer-reviewed literature and describe commonalities among methods in order to guide researchers and communities in future method development. A total of 64 articles met inclusionary criteria and five themes emerged: General Indigenous Frameworks, Western Methods in an Indigenous Context, Community-Based Participatory Research, Storytelling, and Culture-Specific Methods.