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Questioning Indigenous Knowledge Sources

3/9/2015

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Questions you should ask yourself when determining if a resource on Indigenous Knowledge is a credible source and as such a worthy read. Too many “nos” is a sure indication that you should find a different resource.

1. Does the writer have any formal education or credentials on the topic?

2. Is the work clearly rooted in an Indigenous research paradigm?

3. Do they take the time to define Indigenous knowledge?

4. Are they talking about their own Indigenous knowledge?

5. Does the author locate themselves in their writing?

6. Do they pay homage to the pioneers?

7. Do they acknowledge and respect their teachers?

8. What is the duration of the research and is it reasonable?

9. Is the resource more than just a literature review?

10. If it is based on a literature review, are the research parameters clearly stated such as search terms, data bases, and time period of review?

11. Are their sources reputable knowers, journals, and books?

12.  Is the theoretical framework and/or methodology explicitly stated?

13.  Is the work peer-reviewed?

14. Does the work rely on an acceptable and current formatting style that is completed in a professional and consistent way?

15. Is the resource published through a known venue?

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Lynn Gehl, Ph.D. is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley.  She has a section 15 Charter challenge regarding the continued sex discrimination in The Indian Act, and is an outspoken critic of the Ontario Algonquin land claims and self-government process.  She has three books: Anishinaabeg Stories: Featuring Petroglyphs, Petrographs, and Wampum Belts, The Truth that Wampum Tells: My Debwewin of the Algonquin Land Claims Process, and Mkadengwe: Sharing Canada's Colonial Process through Black Face Methodology. You can reach her at lynngehl@gmail.com and see more of her work at www.lynngehl.com.

1 Comment
Cathy Wills
3/10/2015 01:51:07 am

Lynn, I'm not on social media but I want to send you an email to thank you for all of your writings and your thought provoking observations. I reflect on your perspectives many times during the week and let them work on me.

I was moved by your observing and interpreting the young white woman projecting on the elder and the elder receiving that projection. Thank you. I have similar troubling questions about adoptions, ancestry, identities, and what it means to be an ally. To stand with, or stand by, without standing for or in front of, another.

Did you listen to CBC Ideas Tues, Feb 10th. John Ralston Saul is trying to be an ally... I wonder what you think of his efforts. Is he just documenting the hard work of others and getting out in front and selling books? or is he helping to shift the conversation by reminding the elites in politics and media that we can't resolve any issues in this country until we reorganize and renegotiate sovereignty. It's my number one election issue.

I read a very interesting paper called 'moving beyond culturally bound ethical guidelines' by Jean-Guy Goulet in Extraordinary Anthropology. Would love to hear your perspective.

Thank you for the emails and links to your posts. Please keep me on your list.
Cathy

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