Applying Indigenous Research Methods

Sweeney Windchief is a member of the Fort Peck Tribes (Assiniboine) in Montana and is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education at Montana State University, USA. Timothy San Pedro is Filipino-American and grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana. He is an Assistant Professor of Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education at The Ohio State University, USA.

• PART I Palm Upwards: "Reaching Back to Receive Lessons" 1 Hands Back, Hands Forward for Indigenous Storywork as Methodology Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem [Stó:lo- and St’at’imc] and Amy Parent Nox Ayaaw´ ilt [Nisga’a] 2 Community Relationships within Indigenous Methodologies Elizabeth Fast [Métis/Mennonite] and Margaret Kovach [Plains Cree/Saulteaux/member of Treaty Four in southern Saskatchewan] 3 K’é and Tdayp-tday-gaw: Embodying Indigenous Relationality in Research Methods Leola Roberta Rainbow Tsinnajinnie [Diné/Filipina and accepted into Santa Ana Pueblo], Robin Starr Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn [Kiowa/Apache/Umatilla/Nez Perce/Assiniboine], and Tiffany S. Lee [Dibé Łizhiní Diné/Oglala Lakota] PART II Palm Downwards: "The Challenge and Opportunity to Live These Teachings" 4 Enacting Indigenous Research Methods: Centering Diné Epistemology to Guide the Process Valerie J. Shirley [Diné] and Deidra Angulo [Diné] 5 Research Before and After the Academy: Learning Participatory Indigenous Methods Sandi Wemigwase [Waganakising Odawa] and Eve Tuck [Unangax] 6 Indigenous Methodologies in Graduate School: Accountability, Relationships, and Tensions Daniel Piper [White], Jacob Jacobe [White], Rose Yazzie [Diné], and Dolores Calderon [Tigua/Mexican] PART III Palms Joined: "Responsibility to Pass Those Teachings to Others" 7 Indigenous Teachers: At the Cross-Roads of Applying Indigenous Research Methodologies Jeremy Garcia [Hopi/Tewa], Samuel Tenakhongva [Hopi], and Bryant Honyouti [Hopi] 8 Re-centering Tribally-Specific Research Methodologies within Dominant Academic Systems Michael M. Munson [Séliš, Ql´ispé, and non-Native ancestries] and Timothy San Pedro 9 Moʻolelo: Continuity, Stories, and Research in Hawaiʻi Sunnie Kaikala Ma-kua [‘O - iwi Hawai‘i], Manulani Aluli Meyer [‘O - iwi Hawai‘i], and Lynette Lokelani Wakinekona [‘O - iwi Hawai‘i] Afterword: To Be an Indigenous Scholar Cornel Pewewardy [Comanche-Kiowa] List of Contributors