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Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

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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. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships. For researchers to be accountable to all our relations, we must make careful choices in our selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis and finally in the way we present information. I’m an Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba currently living in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia. I’m also a father of three boys, a researcher, son, uncle, teacher, world traveller, knowledge keeper and knowledge seeker. As an educated Indian, I’ve spent much of my life straddling the Indigenous and academic worlds. Most of my time these days is spent teaching other Indigenous knowledge seekers (and my kids) how to accomplish this balancing act while still keeping both feet on the ground.


Editorial Reviews

About the Author

I am Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba. My personal roles include being father to three boys, being a son, uncle, husband, teacher, student, world traveller, knowledge keeper and knowledge seeker. In my professional roles as community psychologist, researcher and educated Cree, I’ve spent much of my life straddling the Indigenous and mainstream worlds. Most of my time these days is spent teaching other Indigenous knowledge seekers (and my kids) how to accomplish this balancing act while still keeping both feet on the ground. In addition to being a full-time dad, I also work part-time for the Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health in Lismore, NSW Australia, building research capacity with primary health care workers.
Travelling and meeting people from other nations and cultures has been a big part of my life, as has my work with traditional Healers, Elders and Knowledge Keepers. In my previous book Gwitch’in Native Elders: Not Just Knowledge but a Way of Looking at the World, I began to document some ideas about just what an Elder is and how they can be supported. I am currently working on documenting my parents’ life stories. Next year my family and I will be undertaking an overland journey around the world to visit with Indigenous Healers; video-documenting their stories, with the goal of building international connections to country and identity. (Not sure yet how we’ll manage the over-water parts!) In addition to further articulating Indigenous philosophies and research paradigms, my research focuses on the inter-related concepts of identity, health and healing, culture and wellbeing.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read!

T.H. · June 9, 2025

A must-read for social science researchers concerned with decolonization

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be Required Reading for Everyone!

S. · February 4, 2025

Amazing! This should be a required reading for everyone. I love that the Indigenous Paradigm challenges Western education ideas. This book has changed how I view education for the better. This was the best book I have read throughout my time in college.

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you, Shawn Wilson!

E. · February 19, 2025

This is honestly a great read. If you know anything about indigenous culture or people, you’ll enjoy the insight into responsibility of relation and how research should be more than facts and logic. It’s beautiful.

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for every writer and academic

N.t.B.E. · December 14, 2023

I'll make sure to request this book in my local library (it's currently not available). This is essential reading for BIPOC who want a way to research, read about, record, and write about their lived experiences in a more authentic and decolonized way. Using this for my research and memoir writing -- I hope the author and other BIPOC authors write more books on this subject.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource

S. · December 23, 2010

Excellent resource for anyone interested in doing research with Indigenous communities. Very readable, yet academic as well. Particularly helpful for non-Indigenous people who want to do research with Indigenous people - reveals much that will be helpful in treating the whole research project, people, community, etc. with respect and caring. I highly recommend this book for anyone working on a Masters or PhD in American Indian Studies or wanting to work with Native communities in their study.

5.0 out of 5 stars great read

J.C. · October 16, 2023

I enjoyed the whole book. No disagreements, just knowledge and acceptance of meeting a person where they are in life. I could read again and again and find deeper meaning or new knowledge that I didn’t catch or wasn’t ready for the first time. Thank you for sharing your journey and passing on knowledge from yours and the people from your team of researchers of an Indigenous paradigm.

5.0 out of 5 stars A helpful reference on indigenous design methodologies.

J. · February 19, 2019

A very helpful reference for indigenous methods. I was writing/designing a PhD indigenous architecture project. More resources are needed like this, especially in terms of developing indigenous design methodologies.

5.0 out of 5 stars Honor all our Relations in Research

D.S.M. · March 26, 2013

Shawn Wilson presents a compelling case for an Indigenous ontology and epistemology grounded in relationality. Relational accountability might shape our research topics, selection of methods of data collection, analysis, and presentation of findings. The academic world has much to learn from the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge seekers. In a life-giving way, this work challenges traditional and mainstream assumptions about research.

I bought this book recently, and such was its ...

A.C. · June 26, 2018

I bought this book recently, and such was its quality I read it through twice in a matter of days, although in all modesty I think that the learning for me contained in this text will take me many years to properly appreciate and integrate. Dr Wilson's writing style is massively engaging, and his expression of ideas is lucid and thoughtful - often offered with welcome humour, and always offered with immense respect. The book is already highly influential amongst a younger (and not so young!) generation of Indigenous researchers - its primary audience - but I also feel that it has much to offer non-Indigenous researchers such as myself. I will be recommending this book to all of my postgraduate research students, especially those who have an interest in critical and qualitative research. I am only sorry that I did not read this book earlier in my academic career.

Wonderful resource for anyone conducting resource with Indigenous communities

K.C. · June 8, 2023

Wonderful resource for anyone conducting resource with Indigenous communities

Great Book

M.C. · July 31, 2025

Loved reading this book. It was for a class at UofC but recommend to lots of people to read outside of the class.

Essential title for research methodology, philosophy of science and anthropology curricula

c. · October 9, 2020

A clearly and beautifully articulated book on research methodologies that could and should complement mainstream academic research. This book, however, could be a challenging read for most academics unless they are committed to decolonising research.

Easy read and informative.

M.H. · August 14, 2019

An assigned text book for a research unit. But having bought it and read it cover to cover I find it incredibly interesting and written in an easy to read narrative format.

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Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

Product ID: U1552662810
Condition: New

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Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods-0
Type: Paperback

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Imported From: United States

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Description:

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. Relationships don’t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships. For researchers to be accountable to all our relations, we must make careful choices in our selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis and finally in the way we present information. I’m an Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba currently living in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia. I’m also a father of three boys, a researcher, son, uncle, teacher, world traveller, knowledge keeper and knowledge seeker. As an educated Indian, I’ve spent much of my life straddling the Indigenous and academic worlds. Most of my time these days is spent teaching other Indigenous knowledge seekers (and my kids) how to accomplish this balancing act while still keeping both feet on the ground.


Editorial Reviews

About the Author

I am Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba. My personal roles include being father to three boys, being a son, uncle, husband, teacher, student, world traveller, knowledge keeper and knowledge seeker. In my professional roles as community psychologist, researcher and educated Cree, I’ve spent much of my life straddling the Indigenous and mainstream worlds. Most of my time these days is spent teaching other Indigenous knowledge seekers (and my kids) how to accomplish this balancing act while still keeping both feet on the ground. In addition to being a full-time dad, I also work part-time for the Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health in Lismore, NSW Australia, building research capacity with primary health care workers.
Travelling and meeting people from other nations and cultures has been a big part of my life, as has my work with traditional Healers, Elders and Knowledge Keepers. In my previous book Gwitch’in Native Elders: Not Just Knowledge but a Way of Looking at the World, I began to document some ideas about just what an Elder is and how they can be supported. I am currently working on documenting my parents’ life stories. Next year my family and I will be undertaking an overland journey around the world to visit with Indigenous Healers; video-documenting their stories, with the goal of building international connections to country and identity. (Not sure yet how we’ll manage the over-water parts!) In addition to further articulating Indigenous philosophies and research paradigms, my research focuses on the inter-related concepts of identity, health and healing, culture and wellbeing.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read!

T.H. · June 9, 2025

A must-read for social science researchers concerned with decolonization

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be Required Reading for Everyone!

S. · February 4, 2025

Amazing! This should be a required reading for everyone. I love that the Indigenous Paradigm challenges Western education ideas. This book has changed how I view education for the better. This was the best book I have read throughout my time in college.

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you, Shawn Wilson!

E. · February 19, 2025

This is honestly a great read. If you know anything about indigenous culture or people, you’ll enjoy the insight into responsibility of relation and how research should be more than facts and logic. It’s beautiful.

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read for every writer and academic

N.t.B.E. · December 14, 2023

I'll make sure to request this book in my local library (it's currently not available). This is essential reading for BIPOC who want a way to research, read about, record, and write about their lived experiences in a more authentic and decolonized way. Using this for my research and memoir writing -- I hope the author and other BIPOC authors write more books on this subject.

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource

S. · December 23, 2010

Excellent resource for anyone interested in doing research with Indigenous communities. Very readable, yet academic as well. Particularly helpful for non-Indigenous people who want to do research with Indigenous people - reveals much that will be helpful in treating the whole research project, people, community, etc. with respect and caring. I highly recommend this book for anyone working on a Masters or PhD in American Indian Studies or wanting to work with Native communities in their study.

5.0 out of 5 stars great read

J.C. · October 16, 2023

I enjoyed the whole book. No disagreements, just knowledge and acceptance of meeting a person where they are in life. I could read again and again and find deeper meaning or new knowledge that I didn’t catch or wasn’t ready for the first time. Thank you for sharing your journey and passing on knowledge from yours and the people from your team of researchers of an Indigenous paradigm.

5.0 out of 5 stars A helpful reference on indigenous design methodologies.

J. · February 19, 2019

A very helpful reference for indigenous methods. I was writing/designing a PhD indigenous architecture project. More resources are needed like this, especially in terms of developing indigenous design methodologies.

5.0 out of 5 stars Honor all our Relations in Research

D.S.M. · March 26, 2013

Shawn Wilson presents a compelling case for an Indigenous ontology and epistemology grounded in relationality. Relational accountability might shape our research topics, selection of methods of data collection, analysis, and presentation of findings. The academic world has much to learn from the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge seekers. In a life-giving way, this work challenges traditional and mainstream assumptions about research.

I bought this book recently, and such was its ...

A.C. · June 26, 2018

I bought this book recently, and such was its quality I read it through twice in a matter of days, although in all modesty I think that the learning for me contained in this text will take me many years to properly appreciate and integrate. Dr Wilson's writing style is massively engaging, and his expression of ideas is lucid and thoughtful - often offered with welcome humour, and always offered with immense respect. The book is already highly influential amongst a younger (and not so young!) generation of Indigenous researchers - its primary audience - but I also feel that it has much to offer non-Indigenous researchers such as myself. I will be recommending this book to all of my postgraduate research students, especially those who have an interest in critical and qualitative research. I am only sorry that I did not read this book earlier in my academic career.

Wonderful resource for anyone conducting resource with Indigenous communities

K.C. · June 8, 2023

Wonderful resource for anyone conducting resource with Indigenous communities

Great Book

M.C. · July 31, 2025

Loved reading this book. It was for a class at UofC but recommend to lots of people to read outside of the class.

Essential title for research methodology, philosophy of science and anthropology curricula

c. · October 9, 2020

A clearly and beautifully articulated book on research methodologies that could and should complement mainstream academic research. This book, however, could be a challenging read for most academics unless they are committed to decolonising research.

Easy read and informative.

M.H. · August 14, 2019

An assigned text book for a research unit. But having bought it and read it cover to cover I find it incredibly interesting and written in an easy to read narrative format.

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