Indigenous Geographies: Research as Reconciliation

Employing a reflexive and co-constructed narrative analysis, this article explores our experiences as a non-Indigenous doctoral student and a First Nations research assistant working together within the context of a community-based participatory Indigenous geography research project. Our findings re...

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Published in:International Indigenous Policy Journal
Main Authors: Smithers Graeme, Cindy, Mandawe, Erik
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: Scholarship@Western 2017
Subjects:
reconciliation
Indigenous geography
reflexive methods
Aboriginal
Human Geography
Indigenous Studies
Canada
First Nations
Online Access:https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol8/iss2/2
https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2017.8.2.2
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Summary:Employing a reflexive and co-constructed narrative analysis, this article explores our experiences as a non-Indigenous doctoral student and a First Nations research assistant working together within the context of a community-based participatory Indigenous geography research project. Our findings revealed that within the research process there were experiences of conflict, and opportunities to reflect upon our identity and create meaningful relationships. While these experiences contributed to an improved research process, at a broader level, we suggest that they also represented our personal stories of reconciliation. In this article, we share these stories, specifically as they relate to reconciliatory processes of re-education and cultural regeneration. We conclude by proposing several policy recommendations to support research as a pathway to reconciliation in Canada.

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