Choosing Border Work ...

• Main Author: Haig-Brown, Craig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Journal of Native Education 2021
• Subjects: Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v19i1.195556; https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195556

Assuming that research, the creation of knowledge, influences local power and authority and may in fact contribute to changing power relationships between First Nations and non- First Nations peoples and institutions, is it a paradox for a non-Native researcher to enter a social arena— a Native education centre dedicated to Indian control o f Indian education— and to profess to contribute to the struggle for control, through research? In a retrospective on just such a research project, Haig-Brown conceptualizes her place in the struggle for In­dian control as being on a border that demarcates a wider struggle related to land and to a First Nations definition of people's relationship to land. A subsidiary struggle is for recogni­tion of the legitimacy of First Nations' conceptual ordering of research priorities and of First Nations voice in the articulation of research findings. Haig-Brown reviews the detail of research design, entry into the research "field," the nature of an ethnographer's relation­ ships ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 19 No. 1 (1992) ...