Research methods in Native American & Indigenous Studies may include unique practices and techniques. Below is a short list of books on research methodologies in NAIS. There are several more to be found in the online catalog, OneSearch. Click through tabs in the left column: Library and Other materials > Find Library Materials > Search Native American Studies Books to search the catalog, OneSearch.
The following list has examples of all: online only, print only, and both online and print versions. Use the OneSearch permanent link (permalink) to get to the record in the catalog. If the link is to a print-only book, you will need the Call Number and Location (most will be on the 2nd floor) to get them. Physical books are checked out at the Circulation Desk on the 1st floor. You will need your CI ID.
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Applying Indigenous research methods: Storying with peoples and communities
An interdisciplinary showcase of the ways Indigenous Research Methods (IRMs) can enhance scholarship in fields including education, Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, social work, qualitative methodologies, and more.
Assessing the evidence in Indigenous education research: Implications for policy and practice
Provides a systematic analysis of existing research to explain how connection to culture - and the recognition of Indigenous sovereignties and knowledges - are the keys to Aboriginal excellence in schooling.
Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples
'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.
Decolonizing research: Indigenous storywork as methodology
From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term 'indigenous storywork' has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a historical record, as a form of teaching and learning, and as an expression of indigenous culture and identity.
Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies
Explores critical theory and action theory, and their hybrid discourses: PAR, feminism, action research, social constructivism, ethnodrama, community action research, poetics. Presents a candid conversation between indigenous and nonindigenous discourses.
Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts
Provides a conceptual framework for implementing Indigenous methodologies and serves as a useful entry point for those wishing to learn more broadly about Indigenous research.
Indigenous statistics: A quantitative research methodology
Dismantles that persistent positivism with a forceful critique, then fills the void with a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods, using concrete examples of research projects from First World Indigenous peoples in the United States, Australia, and Canada.
Positioning research: Shifting paradigms, interdisciplinarity and indigeneity
Highlights the possibilities of transition into 'the third space', where negotiation and dialogue are central to positioning research. It upholds the principle that different research methodologies are equally valid and valued in contributing to new knowledge.
Reclaiming Indigenous research in higher education
Highlights current scholarship emerging from scholars of higher education. From understanding how Native American students make their way through school, to tracking tribal college and university transfer students.
Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods
Relationships don't just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context. This book describes a research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice.