First Nations Children Count: An Indigenous Envelope for Quantitative Research

Indigneous peoples have increasingly called for disaggregated data to inform policy and practice and yet there has been very little discourse on how to “Indigenenize” quantitative research. This article provides a synopsis of Indigenous research goals before moving onto describe how quantitative res...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:First Peoples Child & Family Review
Main Author: Blackstock, Cindy
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada 2010
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7202/1068932ar
http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1068932ar
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Summary:Indigneous peoples have increasingly called for disaggregated data to inform policy and practice and yet there has been very little discourse on how to “Indigenenize” quantitative research. This article provides a synopsis of Indigenous research goals before moving onto describe how quantitative research can be placed in an Indigenous envelope to advance Indigenous child health and welfare policy goals.