Walter and Andersen 2013, Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methdology 

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Statistics do not just describe reality; they ______ it.

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Census data

Can be used by Indigenous tribes to plan the infrastructure needed to meet tribal government responsibilities

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Official statistics

Operate as a powerful truth claim in most modern societies

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Indigenous populations

They become statistical creations based on aggregate individual-level data rather than real-world concrete groups

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Population statistics

Map the contour of the social world itself and play a role in defining a nation's concept of itself

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Methodology

The active element in constituting the portrait of the realities that statistical techniques eventually create

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Qualitative methodologies

Methodology that focuses on small or localized objectives to examine them more deeply, analyzing subjective experiences with a level of contextualization and depth, often over a long period of time

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Quantitative methodologies

Methodology that allows researchers to draw information from the local context, standardize it, and, removing it from context, deliver it to a central point of calculation

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problem, uncritiqued

Indigenous people are constituted as the ______ and non-Indigenous ways of life are _______.

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Statistics

Systematically collected numerical facts

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Census data

Used to calculate funding for Indigenous people

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Statistics

Describe Indigenous population profiles and geographical distribution as well as their delayed levels of educational achievement, labor market participation, health, and economic status

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Methods

The research method of statistical analysis itself

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Interpret, society

Statistics ______ reality and influence the way we understand ______

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Objective

Indigenous statistics are accepted as straightforward and ______

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Pejorative

Indigenous statistics are ______ and tend toward a documentation of difference, deficit, and dysfunction

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Constructions

Researchers must understand that statistics are social ______

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Complexity

A problem of quantitative methodologies is that it misses the _______ of our social relations

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Place

A problem of quantitative methodologies is that is downplays the importance of ______ which is central to Indigenous populations

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Mark

Researchers who create statistics leave their _____ on them

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Dominant

Data about Indigenous peoples both reflect and constitute the _____ cultural framework of the nation-state within which they operate

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Understanding, constructions

For researchers, ______ how statistics are created and deployed is crucial to be able to understand them as social _______ and therefore to be able to create alternatives

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Translation, academia

We must be aware and careful of the _____ processes through which non-academic knowledge is translated into _______

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