“Of Course, Data Can Never Fully Represent Reality”: Assessing the
                    Relationship between “Indigenous Data” and “Indigenous Knowledge,” “Traditional
                    Ecological Knowledge,” and “Traditional Knowledge”

Duarte, Marisa Elena; Vigil-Hayes, Morgan; Littletree, Sandra; Belarde-Lewis, Miranda

doi:10.13110/humanbiology.91.3.03

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“…This allowed us to direct our efforts in disseminating the knowledge at hand. As other re-searchers have noted, “data sets alone do not generate solutions” (Duarte et al, 2020). Indigenized Methodologies require that re-search is conducted according to Indigenous Protocols, and that the relationship between the Indigenous Communities and the re-search team does not end at the creation of a dataset or after “analysis.” It is not enough to describe the racism, discrimination, and oppression that Indigenous Women face; but to honour the voices there must be an active sharing back of the re-search teachings in a way that reaches and serves community by addressing priority issues (Held, 2019).…”

Section: Teaching Of the Trees: (A Discussion On What We Learned)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Changing Tide: Indigenizing Re-Search with Indigenous Women Living with HIV to Explore, Understand, and Support their Health and Well-Being

Nicholson

Gormley

Cardinal

et al. 2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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The Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study – Positive Aboriginal Women (CHIWOS-PAW) actively Indigenizes and honours re-search by, with, and for Indigenous communities. In this study, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, we weave our ways of knowing and doing together on the Ancestral, Traditional, and stolen lands of the xwmƏθkwƏýƏm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), [Formula: see text] (Tsleil-Waututh), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), and the Kwantlen Territories. We conceptualize ‘re-search’ as a cyclical journey that is not about ‘discovering’ new knowledge but designing a process to search for what is known, existing, and embodied by Mother Earth and our Ancestors. In this paper, we describe our process of using strengths-based approaches grounded in our connections with the Lands and Waters to explore how Indigenous Women living with HIV support their health and well-being by drawing upon Indigenous teachings and healing. Over the course of multiple gatherings conducted over 1 year with the same group of women, we utilized arts-based research methods, Indigenous teachings and ceremony, and Sharing Circles to collect and analyze women’s perspectives and experiences of their health and healthcare. The Wise Women were living in the Coast Salish Territories, yet came from different Communities, including Coast Salish, Cree, Blackfoot, and Navajo Nation. Our Indigenized re-search process was healing for the Wise Women who participated in the study and for us as the re-search team, which promoted re-connection to self, nature, and culture. We share insights on our learnings to support other community-based research teams to engage in re-search by, with, and for Indigenous Women that prioritizes safety, healing, and benefit for those who participate. Such insights include the importance of centering Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Ceremony, and Cultural Practices; changing re-search jargon to more inclusive and honouring language; and reaffirming commitment to Indigenous Communities.

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Section: Teaching Of the Trees: (A Discussion On What We Learned)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Changing Tide: Indigenizing Re-Search with Indigenous Women Living with HIV to Explore, Understand, and Support their Health and Well-Being

Nicholson

Gormley

Cardinal

et al. 2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Scholarship in Indigenous data sovereignty offers important lessons for digital geographers. Native scholars in Indigenous data sovereignty demonstrate the necessity to read and understand data practices outside Cartesian genealogies that reproduce inequality and erase Indigenous political orders (Duarte et al, 2019). For instance, the decolonial methodology of storywork as a data practice enables apprehending the geo-imaginary of place-based story outside the violent abstraction of digital practices (Smith, 2021;Archibald, 2008).…”

Section: (Re)imagining Digital Knowledge Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, the decolonial methodology of storywork as a data practice enables apprehending the geo-imaginary of place-based story outside the violent abstraction of digital practices (Smith, 2021;Archibald, 2008). Where data as Duarte et al (2019) argue "of course data cannot represent all reality," decolonial feminist methodologies centering on relationality open the possibility for imagining data outside property, objects, and possessionary artifacts for capital accumulation. Indigenous data sovereignty insists on Indigenous modes of knowledge that adhere to Indigenous protocols (Duarte, 2021).…”

Section: (Re)imagining Digital Knowledge Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This process must insist on accountable relationships to the communities and lands from where knowledge emerges. For instance, decolonial feminism centered on relationality demands accountable and responsive research methods and pedagogies to digital and visual methodologies (Duarte et al, 2019). Anticolonial frameworks (re) direct digital knowledge politics by shifting disciplinary frameworks towards relationship building within the spaces and communities where knowledge creation takes place.…”

Section: (Re)imagining Digital Knowledge Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics

Rivera

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geography as a discipline is entangled in settler colonial regimes that continue to shape geographic practice and the boundaries of geographical knowledge. Digital technologies play an instrumental role in shaping the view of geography and sociospatial relations. This paper traces the construction of the settler imaginary in geographic thought through scholarship in digital geographies and anticolonialism. By bridging anticolonial scholarship in digital geographies, this paper contributes to debates on anticolonial and decolonial refusal politics and its role in realizing reciprocal land-life relations. The (re)imagining of digital knowledge politics begins with accountable digital geographic practices on the terms of Indigenous peoples’.

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“…They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions, and legal system” whether recognized by colonial powers or not (Cobo, 1981). Indigenous Peoples’ data include both tangible and intangible information, knowledge, and specimens about their peoples, governments, and non-human relations that are digitized and entered into the data ecosystem (Carroll, Kukutai, et al, 2019; Duarte et al, 2020; Kukutai and Taylor, 2016).…”

Section: Indigenous Peoples Data and Research Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Life and times of data access: Regarding Native Lands

Brewer

Carroll

Bartecchi

et al. 2023

Environment and Planning F

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It is challenging to understand the full and detailed story of Native People’s lands in the United States. In this article, we contend that reliable and accessible data regarding Native People’s lands complicate and perpetuate those challenges. Stemming from the implications of colonial ideologies, such as the General Allotment Act of 1887, Native Peoples’ land-based data are difficult to access for Tribal Nations and researchers. Land data have been and continue to be obscured by U.S. federal processes and are dependent on unreliable systems of outdated and exclusive practices that consistently marginalize Native Peoples. Therefore, those data do not adequately inform Tribal land planning initiatives. In this article we recommend new processes that strengthen Tribal data sovereignty as the fundamental underpinnings to an inclusive and protected data in the future.

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“Of Course, Data Can Never Fully Represent Reality”: Assessing the Relationship between “Indigenous Data” and “Indigenous Knowledge,” “Traditional Ecological Knowledge,” and “Traditional Knowledge”

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

The Changing Tide: Indigenizing Re-Search with Indigenous Women Living with HIV to Explore, Understand, and Support their Health and Well-Being

The Changing Tide: Indigenizing Re-Search with Indigenous Women Living with HIV to Explore, Understand, and Support their Health and Well-Being

Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics

Life and times of data access: Regarding Native Lands

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