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Indigenous Ways of Knowing
This page is meant to provide entry points for researchers interested in discovering more about Indigenous ways of knowing to influence their academic research. The focus of the resources provided here are on First Nations, Inuit and Métis groups in North America and primarily the area that is commonly known as Canada, though other Indigenous groups may be represented in some of the works listed.
It is important to remember that when engaging with Indigenous knowledge, people and culture, just as there are many different European cultures and people, so too are there many different Indigenous cultures and people. Indigenous people do not exist as a monolith. Indigenous ways of knowing differ between groups and cultures. It's important to be specific about the culture you are referring to and to avoid sweeping generalizations referring to Pan Indigenity.
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Collaborative Indigenous Research
- Collaborative Indigenous ResearchFrom Eve Tuck at UofT's OISE. This resource was created "to promote and expand the field of Collaborative Indigenous Research". With a specific focus on research incorporating Indigenous methodologies and participatory methodologies
Databases relating to Indigenous studies
This list of over 20 databases covers a mix of scholarly and primary sources across many disciplines and timeframes.
Books
This Is Not a Peace Pipe by ISBN: 9780802080165Publication Date: 2006-02-01How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that indigenous intellectuals need to engage the legal and political discourses of the state, respecting both indigenous philosophies and Western European intellectual traditions.
Epistemic Decolonization by ISBN: 9783030499617Publication Date: 2020-07-29European colonization played a major role in the acquisition, formation, and destruction of different ways of knowing. Recently, many scholars and activists have come to ask: Are there ways in which knowledge might be decolonized? Epistemic Decolonization examines a variety of such projects from a critical and philosophical perspective. The book introduces the unfamiliar reader to the wide variety of approaches to the topic at hand, providing concrete examples along the way. It argues that the predominant contemporary approach to epistemic decolonization leads one into various intractable theoretical and practical problems. The book then closely investigates the political and scientific work of Frantz Fanon and Amìlcar Cabral, demonstrating how their philosophical commitments can help lead one out of the practical and theoretical issues faced by the current, predominant orientation, and concludes by forging links between their work and that of some contemporary feminist epistemologists.
Decolonizing American Philosophy by ISBN: 9781438481937Publication Date: 2021-02-01In Decolonizing American Philosophy, Corey McCall and Phillip McReynolds bring together leading scholars at the forefront of the field to ask: Can American philosophy, as the product of a colonial enterprise, be decolonized? Does American philosophy offer tools for decolonial projects? What might it mean to decolonize American philosophy and, at the same time, is it possible to consider American philosophy, broadly construed, as a part of a decolonizing project?
Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education by ISBN: 9783030612986Publication Date: 2020-11-20This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways in which the structures of science education—its concepts, categories, policies, and practices—contribute to the exclusion (or problematic inclusion) of Indigenous science while also shaping its ability respond.
Red Skin, White Masks by ISBN: 9780816679652Publication Date: 2014-09-07Coulthard demonstrates how a "place-based" modification of Karl Marx's theory of "primitive accumulation" throws light on Indigenous-state relations in settler-colonial contexts and how Frantz Fanon's critique of colonial recognition shows that this relationship reproduces itself over time. This framework strengthens his exploration of the ways that the politics of recognition has come to serve the interests of settler-colonial power. In addressing the core tenets of Indigenous resistance movements, like Red Power and Idle No More, Coulthard offers fresh insights into the politics of active decolonization.
Indigenous Researchers/Academics
This list of Indigenous Scholars is meant to provide you with names to include in your search for Indigenous research. You may want to look further into the works and research of the academics listed below. This is by no means an exhaustive list but a good place to start looking for leaders in particular areas of study.
- Jeanette Armstrongappointed Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy
- John BorrowsUniversity of Victoria professor in the faculty of Law.
- Robyn BourgeoisBrockU professor in Women's and Gender Studies
- Glen CoulthardUBC professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies
- Kahente Horn-MillerCarleton University faculty member in School of Indigenous
- Tracey Lindberglawyer, author activist and professor at uOttawa in the Faculty of Law
- Pamela Palmaterlawyer, activist, academic at Toronto Metropolitan University
- Signa A. Daum ShanksYork University professor at Osgoode Law School
- Audra SimpsonDepartment of Anthropology at Columbia University
- Andrea Sullivan-ClarkeUniversity of Windsor Professor in Philosophy
- Jesse ThistleYork University faculty member in Department of Humanities
- Dale TurnerUniversity of Toronto professor in Political Science and Center for Indigenous Studies