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Scenario

When academic teams struggle to implement Indigenous research methodologies

My research team at the university includes both Indigenous scholars and non-Indigenous allies, and we're trying to develop a decolonized methodology for our project, but we keep getting stuck because the non-Indigenous members want clear protocols to follow and the Indigenous members keep saying it's not about rules but about relationship. We're all frustrated because we want to do this right but we can't even agree on what 'right' means or who gets to define it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is learning that decolonizing knowledge production requires fundamentally different ways of thinking about authority, process, and truth itself.

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Juana
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Postcolonial identity and decolonization?”

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