Indigenous-Minded Innovation in Shifting Ecologies

Huaman, Elizabeth Sumida

doi:10.1007/978-94-6300-226-4_1

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“…Indigenous knowledge and innovation systems can offer a way forward (Agrawal, 1995;Battiste & Youngblood, 2000). Indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing are associated with more sustainable ways of addressing the diverse social and economic needs of peoples across the globe (Huaman, 2017;Wuttunee, 2004). Furthermore, attention toward Indigenous innovation, understood through a decolonizing lens, would serve as an integral component of reconciliation, supporting existing government policy and practice in this journey.…”

Section: Why Should Indigenous Entrepreneurship Have the Immediate Attention Of Canadian Government Policy Makers?mentioning

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Informing Canadian Innovation Policy Through a Decolonizing Lens on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Tamtik

2020

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While Indigenous entrepreneurship is associated with significant economic promise, Indigenous innovation continues to be invisible in Canadian policy contexts. This article examines how Indigenous entrepreneurial activities are framed in government policy, potentially leading to another wave of active exploitation of Indigenous lands, peoples, and knowledges. The article first discusses the concepts of Indigenous entrepreneurship and innovation through a decolonizing lens, drawing links to education. Then, it provides a set of rationales for why governments need to re-think and prioritize Indigenous entrepreneurship. Next, it maps the current federal government initiatives in this policy sector. Drawing from the Indigenous entrepreneurship ecosystem approach (Dell & Houkamau, 2016; Dell et al., 2017), the article argues that a more comprehensive policy perspective guiding Indigenous entrepreneurship programs should inform Canadian innovation policy. Individual voices from 13 Indigenous entrepreneurs in Manitoba point to three core issues: (a) relationships with the land and the community; (b) the relevance of (higher) education and training; and (c) the importance of cultural survival and self-determination. The article makes an argument for a systemic decolonizing change in how Indigenous innovation is approached in government policyand programs, supported by the work of higher education institutions.

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Section: Why Should Indigenous Entrepreneurship Have the Immediate Attention Of Canadian Government Policy Makers?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Informing Canadian Innovation Policy Through a Decolonizing Lens on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Tamtik

2020

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“…Indigenous innovation focuses on human relationships, community-based learning, ecological awareness, and relationship with land. Literature also suggests that Indigenous innovation is primarily connected to preserving Indigenous heritage through (re)learning one’s Indigenous cultural ways of knowing and being (Hindle & Lansdowne, 2005; Huaman, 2015). As such, innovation in Indigenous contexts is often understood as looking back and not necessarily looking forward (Hindle & Lansdowne, 2005).…”

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“…Scholars have also pointed out that higher education institutions play a crucial role in advancing such inequities, as they tend to perpetuate the narratives of competitiveness and meritocracy, focusing on performativity over structural change (Bhopal & Pitkin, 2020; Jin & Ball, 2020). Calls for immediate intervention grounded in decolonizing perspectives have been made particularly by Indigenous scholars (Battiste, 2002; Donald, 2009; Huaman & Sriraman, 2015). There is a need to start thinking about the innovation agenda differently and to examine how higher education institutions can play a role in this shift, which could lead the way towards more equitable higher education systems.…”

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Indigenous innovation and organizational change towards equitable higher education systems: the Canadian experience

Tamtik

2023

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Indigenous knowledges are largely absent from higher education institutions’ efforts to pursue excellence and innovation. Grounded in decolonization literature and institutional theory, this article examines how Indigenous peoples of Canada have engaged with innovation discourses in higher education. Through document analysis of 15 research-intensive Canadian universities and conversation with 13 Indigenous peoples, the article analyses political, functional, and normative pressures associated with Indigenous knowledges shaping Canadian universities. The article demonstrates how Indigenous groups have been able to push post-secondary institutions towards a normative shift in organizational structure. The article also shows how approaching innovation from decolonizing perspectives can provide a way forward for equitable higher education systems, advocating for re-imagining the dominant market economy, and focusing on learning from Indigenous worldviews that centre around reciprocity, ecological sustainability, and connection to land.

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“…To counter this, indigenous innovations in science and technology emphasize "cultural autonomy, remembrance and retrieval, self-determination, and community-based values linked with the maintenance, preservation, restoration, and revitalization of Indigenous knowledge systems that merge episteme with place and cultural practice" (Huaman 2015). The diversity and heterogeneity of indigenous communities across the globe renders this approach a powerful antidote to the homogenizing effects of economic globalization, and also allows for a plurality of methods and approaches that emphasize adaptive management (AM) based on localized knowledge of the biophysical world, to counter Enlightenment approaches that emphasize permanent, standardized fixes for "environmental problems."…”

Section: Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%