Decolonized & Indigenized Research Methods

Living In And Working
With Indian Communities
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We recognize research, data, and evaluation as Indigenous values, and by doing so, we are able to produce the best and most accurate data to strengthen the health of Native people.
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We are reclaiming our Indigenous data practices to ensure that partners, providers, policymakers, and health advocates have access to information that will help, not hurt, our communities. 

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We acknowledge the Indigenous Peoples and their lands on which we live and work, recognizing that the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance emerges from a commitment from each one of us to our relatives, communities, and constituents. Our work is anchored by our shared values and goals around Indigenous Peoples rights to, interests in, and relationships with their data, information, and knowledges. We acknowledge and hold accountability to our ancestors, our knowledge keepers including the land and our non-human kin. We acknowledge ancestors who came before us, and youth who will continue keeping and sharing our knowledges with generations to come.
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Our team works to:

• Engage diverse disciplines

• Build community

• Practice accountability

• Generate collective knowledge

The Office of Native American Affairs works internally to provide University researchers with culturally responsive training to guide research projects, pedagogy, scholarship, and academic initiatives that respect Tribal sovereignty. Our goal is to contribute to a better understanding of Indigenous cultures, histories, and contemporary issues in an attempt to remedy the extractive nature of research and education with Indigenous peoples.

 

Our purpose is to develop and propose a conceptual framework based on respect, relationship, representation, relevance, responsibility, and reciprocity (the Six Rs), to be applied in studies using Indigenous research methodologies (IRMs). This conceptual framework builds upon the extensive work of numerous Indigenous scholars who brought this conversation into the literature and research enterprise. Our goal is to synthesize the Six Rs, describe how they complement and inform one another, and explain our process for their implementation and interpretation as a framework to develop and answer research questions. The Six Rs provide a representative research framework and can be a powerful guideline.

(Tsosie et al. 2022)

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