Table of Contents

• Artist Statement
• Foreword

  Part I – Indigenous Research Designs: Methodologies, Contexts, and Visions

• Chapter 1 – Design for Life: Decoloniality and Research for Infinite Possibility
• Chapter 2 – On Reframing or Transcending Colonial and Other Patterns in Life
• Chapter 3 – Shaping Research Preparation and Design Through Indigenous Storywork
• Chapter 4 – Deciding in Relation with Community: An Indigenous Studies Critique of the Canadian Indigenous Methodologies Field

  Part II – Research Questions: Origins of Thought, Epistemologies, and Purposes

• Chapter 5 – Killing Kin/Haunting Life: Towards Indigenous Vocabularies of Loss and Repair
• Chapter 6 – Re-imagining Two Laws within Indigenous Research: Truth Telling Beyond Australia's Climate Crisis in South West Gulf Country, Northern Territory
• Chapter 7 – Ngā hua o te wānanga: The Fruits of wānanga
• Chapter 8 – Kakala Research Framework: a Garland in Celebration of a Decade of Re-educating, Reconceptualizing, Re-thinking, and Redesigning

  Part III – Research Lenses and Research Approaches: Relationships, Innovations, and De-linkings

• Chapter 9 – Naagdowendiwin as a Methodological Approach to Research
• Chapter 10 – Māori Data is a Taonga
• Chapter 11 – Pueblo Reclamation of Indigenous Research Design
• Chapter 12 – Indigeneity as Analytic: Recentring Ethnography through Indigenous Experience
• Chapter 13 – Using A Guarani-Window to Decolonize Qualitative Research in Rural Paraguay

  Part IV – Researcher Positionalities and Ethics: Ontologies Beyond Identity

• Chapter 14 – Putting Research into the Heart: Relationality in Lakota-Based Research
• Chapter 15 – Walking in My Mother's Footsteps: Nêhiýaw Resurgence Research
• Chapter 16 – Afrocentric Research Ethics: Decolonial Possibilities for Indigenous Research and Research Design
• Chapter 17 – Confronting Academic Colonialism: Reflections on my Role as an Ainu Researcher

  Part V– Research Partnerships and Research Applications: Holographic Epistemologies and Pluriversalities

• Chapter 18 – Marriage of Emancipation by Turning to the Tindanam: Research that Moves with the Movement in Indigenous Resistance to Large-Scale Mining in Upper East Region of Ghana
• Chapter 19 – Engaged Ethnographic Research with Indigenous Communities: Insights from a Language Policy Study in Nepal
• Chapter 20 – Tribal-University Partnership Methodology for Re-Searching with Manoomin/Psiŋ
• Chapter 21 – Full Scientific and Indigenous Rigor: Lessons from a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial with Two Tribal Nations
• Chapter 22 – "You Walk with People, Not Above, Not Below, with Them": Designing Indigenous Teacher Research for Tribal Nation Building
• Epilogue

About the Author

Elizabeth Sumida Huaman (Wanka/Quechua) is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Nathan D. Martin is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation and the School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University.

Reviews

"A unique collection that considers multiple ways of conducting Indigenous-based approaches to research and honours perspectives from various Indigenous researchers from across the globe."
—Dr. Marlyn Bennett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary"Indigenous Research Design is a compelling compilation of Indigenous scholarship that calls on researchers to critically reassess and broaden their methodologies. This meticulously curated collection offers an exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, providing an in-depth investigation of Indigenous research processes. It covers a wide range of topics, from research question formulation and innovative research methodologies to researcher positionalities, ethical considerations, and research dissemination. This volume is a must-read for researchers of all disciplines and an invaluable resource for use in research methods courses."
—Dr. Fenot Aklog, Director of Monitoring Evaluation and Research, Institute for Student Achievement, Adjunct Associate Professor, CUNY-CSI"This text showcases diversity of Indigenous research approaches and how together they enrich knowledge construction, application, and sharing to establish sustainable knowledge justice and positive social change locally and globally."
—Dr. Francis Adu-Febiri, Sociology Professor, Social Sciences Department at Camosun College and author of First Nations Students Talk Back: Voices of a Learning People