Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context.
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..
As an educated Indian, I\'ve spent much of my life straddling the Indigenous and academic worlds.
I\'m also a father of three boys, a researcher, son, uncle, teacher, world traveller, knowledge keeper and knowledge seeker.
I\'m an Opaskwayak Cree from northern Manitoba currently living in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales, Australia.
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.
Indigenous Research is the Ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships.
Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the Ceremony that is Indigenous research.
Relationships don\'t just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality.
This book describes a Research paradigm shared by Indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, and demonstrates how this paradigm can be put into practice.
Indigenous researchers are knowledge seekers who work to progress Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing in a modern and constantly evolving context
