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Research methodologies books at York University Libraries

Indigenous Research: Theories, Practices, and Relationships by Deborah McGregor, Jean-Paul Restoule, and Rochelle Johnston
Call Number: E 76.7 I53 2018
In collaboration with their communities, and with guidance from Elders and other traditional knowledge keepers, each contributor links their personal narrative of Indigenous research to current discussions and debates.
Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous research methods by Shawn Wilson
Call Number: GN 380 W554 2008
Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study demonstrates how this standard can be put into practice.
A systematic review of Western and Aboriginal research designs : assessing cross-validation to explore compatibility and convergence by Michael Saini
The objective of this systematic review is to compare Western research designs and Aboriginal research designs to assess the cross-validation of these methods. Focusing on mixed-method designs that employ both Aboriginal and Western research designs provides a unique opportunity to explore the compatibility and convergence of using these methods within an Aboriginal context.
Indigenous Research Methodologies by Bagele Chilisa
Call Number: GN 380 C494 2012
Responding to increased emphasis in the classroom and the field on exposing students to diverse epistemologies, methods, and methodologies, Bagele Chilisa's textbook situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context.
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Call Number: GN 380 S65 2012
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.'
Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies by Yvonna S. Lincoln, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, and Norman K. Denzin
Call Number: GN 345 H364 2008
The Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies makes connections regarding many of the perspectives of the "new" critical theorists and emerging Indigenous methodologies to serve as a guide to help Western researchers.
Indigenous Methodologies by Margaret Kovach
Call Number: GN 42 K68 2009
Margaret Kovach's study includes topics such as Indigenous epistemologies, decolonizing theory, story as method, situating self and culture, Indigenous methods, protocol, meaning-making, and ethics while interweaving perspectives from six Indigenous researchers who share their stories, and the author's journey into Indigenous methodologies.
Indigenous Statistics by Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen
Call Number: GN 380 W35 2013
This book 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.
Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies by Chris Andersen and Jean M. O'Brien
Call Number: GN 380 S68 2017
Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies is a synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in Indigenous Studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological and geographical range.
Research as Resistance: Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches by Susan Strega and Leslie Brown
Call Number: E 78 C2 R443 2015
The book covers some of the ontological and epistemological considerations involved in socially just research, including researcher positionality, and offers examples across a range of methodologies, including storytelling and Indigenous research.

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Indigenous Philosophies and Critical Education by George J. Sefa Dei
Call Number: LC 3715 I46 2011
This reader pulls together ideas concerning Indigenous epistemologies (e.g., worldviews, paradigms, standpoints, and philosophies) as they manifest themselves in the mental lives of persons both from and outside the orbit of the usual Euro-American culture.
Kaandossiwin: How We Come to Know by Kathleen E. Absolon
Call Number: E 76.7 A26 2011
Anishinaabe researcher Kathleen Absolon examines the academic work of fourteen Indigenous scholars who utilize Indigenous worldviews in their search for knowing.
Strong Helpers' Teachings: the Value of Indigenous Knowledges in the Helping Professions by Cyndy Baskin
Call Number: HV 40 B327 2016
Strong Helpers' Teachings encourages Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, scholars, and practitioners in the human services to learn and understand fundamental aspects of Indigenous worldviews that can be applied to all peoples.
Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada by Yale D. Belanger
Call Number: E 78 C2 B425 2018
Introduction to Native Studies and Native/Indigenous issues: health, politics, self-government, urban reserves, Native philosophy, and the arts.

Methodologies, ethics, and knowledge research guides

Guidelines to Support Working with Elders
With guidance from Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams, First Peoples' Cultural Council has developed a free resource Working with Elders to support anyone who is interested in engaging with Elders.
Methodologies & Ethics
A research guide developed by the University of Saskatchewan.

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Toolbox of Research Principles in an Aboriginal Context: Ethics, Respect, Fairness, Reciprocity, Collaboration and Culture
This one-of-a-kind publication is intended for First Nations and Inuit communities’ decision-makers, researchers and students wishing to further their knowledge in research in Aboriginal contexts. The purpose is to aggregate existing tools that have proven useful in the development of ethical, respectful, equitable and reciprocal collaborative research, and make them available to all. Aussi disponible en français.
First Nations principles of OCAP (Ownership, control, access, possession)
An explanation of the First Nations principles of OCAP® are a set of standards that establish how First Nations data should be collected, protected, used, or shared. They are the de facto standard for how to conduct research with First Nations.
A PDF can be viewed here (it will download automatically when you click the link).
Ethics in First Nations Research (Assembly of First Nations)
This paper discusses approaches to conducting ethical research, highlighting fundamental flaws in research conducted to date, and offering possible solutions to these flaws for 'outsiders' to First Nations communities and by 'insiders' who identify as members of the community or Nation in which they are conducting research.

Copy and paste this URL in a new tab to download the PDF: http://www.afn.ca/uploads/files/rp-research_ethics_final.pdf
Negotiating Research Relationships with Inuit Communities
This booklet, published by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Nunavut Research Institute, attempts to address questions, and provide practical advice to assist researchers who plan to work with, or in the vicinity of, Inuit communities in the regions of Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut, and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories.

Copy and paste this URL in a new tab to download the PDF: http://www.nri.nu.ca/sites/default/files/public/files/06-068_itk_nrr_booklet.pdf
Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis People of Canada (Tri-Council)
This chapter is designed to serve as a framework for the ethical conduct of research involving Aboriginal peoples. It is not intended to override or replace ethical guidance offered by Aboriginal peoples themselves.

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