The Tsimshian Protocols: Locating and Empowering Community-based Research

• Main Author: McDonald, James Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: UBC Faculty of Education 2021
• Subjects: Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196373; https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v28i1-2.196373

This article highlights examples o f community-centred research that demonstratedrespectful long-term research relationships; that developed and followed communityspecific ethical protocols; and that resulted in beneficial educational curricula. Theprinciples and development processes o f the Tsimshian protocols are described.Anthropologists and other social science researchers have often struggled withresearch ethics and issues o f power. This article demonstrates one important path outo f this quagmire: "to work with communities and individuals in ways that respecttheir realities, their needs, and their futures."