unit 1

• Method

  • Provides the tools (ceremony, protocal, sharing circle) for methodology

  • Way of doing something

• Methodology 

  • Frames questions, shapes analyses and determines instruments.

  • Affects the selection of methods.

  • A systym of methods used in Indigenous studies

• Qualitative Research 

  • With a qualitative research approach: Indigenist research methodology privileges Indigenous voices, resistance, and political integrity

• Quantitative Research 

  • In quantitative research takes a strength-based approach to statistical data, less importance on Indigenous voices, more fact based.

• Insurgent research methodology

  • Grounded in Indigenous worldviews and is action-oriented, providing the community with final authority.

• tribal epistemology

  • is the system of knowledge production (Kovach)

  • (Wilson) said knowledge can’t be owned or discovered, is merely a set of relationships that may be given visible form.

  • Debate cautions against full adoption of Indigenous epistemologies due to their inability to capture pre-contact Indigenous epistemologies.

  • A system of knowledge production which is shared not owned

• Ontology 

  • As the categories used to explain the world around us and our nature of being

  • The study of who we are, our nature and how we are connected with the land

• Axiology 

  • Encompasses relational accountability, Set of ethics or morals that guides the process of Indigenous research

• Indigenous 

  • The Umbrella term used in Canada refers to First Nations, Métis and Inuit individuals (also refers to: Individuals who inhabited or existed on their land since time immemorial)

• First Nations

  •             The term refers to an Indigenous person distinct from Métis or Inuit. The term originates in the 1970s and refers to those who are legally considered “Indians” in the Constitution Act 1982, s.35. In Manitoba, First Nation peoples include the Néhiyaw, Dakota (Assiniboine), Dakota, Anishinaabe, Anishininew, and Dene

• Metis

  • Refers to an Indigenous person who self-identifies of the historic Métis nation Ancestry, is distinct from other Aboriginal peoples and is accepted by the Métis nation.

• Inuit 

  • The Inuit are recognized as Indigenous people and are registered in Ottawa, but the Indian Act does not apply to the Inuit. The Inuit do not have reserves. They have received Indigenous titles to the lands in the North that are recognized as belonging to them by the federal and territorial governments.

• Aboriginal 

  •         The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982 uses the term to describe the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, whose rights are recognized and affirmed within the document. Although used in a legal context in your work when not referring specifically to s.35 of the constitution or government policy, avoid using this term.

• Native American/Canadian

  • Outdated considered derogatory term, implies that Indigenous peoples are the property of the country and belong to it.

Outline the five w’s (who, what, where, when, why) for the following 

1. Role of Education TRC Murray Sinclair

1.     Who: Murray Sinclair: Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

1. What: TRC result of the IRSSA agreement to recognize the suffering and traume experienced by Indigenous students at residential schools. Providing financial compensation, funds for research

2. Where do we want to be: a better relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, and to no longer colonize the Indigenous culture

3. When do we want this: now, looking at our education system and seeing ways to improve

4. Why it’s important: to change stereotypes surrounding Indigenous peoples and address how to Canadian gov. Has treated them past/present.

5. Treaties in Manitoba 

   1. Who: Indigenous peoples who are in Manitoba

   2. What: 5 treaties passed throughout 1871-1875, (Treaty 1(1871), Treaty 2(1871), Treaty 3(1873), Treaty 4(1874), Treaty 5(1875))

   3. Where: Manitoba – Treaty 1: Southern mb, Winnipeg, Treaty 2: Southwestern mb, Treaty 3: Southeastern, treaty 4: above treaty2, Treaty 5: mid-northern mb east-west

   4. When:1871-1875

   5. Why: provide a framework for living together and sharing the land Indigenous peoples traditionally occupied

6. Manitoba Metis Federation Regions 

   1. Who: Métis federations

   2. What: 7 regions in Manitoba of Métis

   3. Where: Throughout Manitoba federations ( Northwest Region, The Pas region, Thompson Region, Interlake Region, Southeast Region, Southwest Region, Winnipeg Region)

   4. When:

   5. Why:

7. Inuit in Manitoba 

   1. Who:

   2. What:

   3. Where:

   4. When:

   5. Why:

8. Province of Manitoba Aboriginal Population Census 2016

   1.  Who: in 2016, there were 223,310 Aboriginal people in Manitoba, making up 18.0% of the population.

   2. What: A Census conducted to document the total population of Aboriginal Identity and  Registered or Treaty Indian status in Manitoba.

   3. Where: Manitoba

   4. When: 2016

   5. Why:

Explain the following concepts.

• Indigenous Studies R’s of research

  • Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, relationship and Responsibility

  • Indigenous studies as a discipline must uphold the responsibilities of research, ensure research is relevant to communities and serves with reciprocity, demonstrate respect through humanity, and grant sovereignty to the community through the right of refusal, and through relationships.

• The role of Indigenous Studies in destruction, dismantling, exposure & creation

  • Destruction- Challenging the stereotypes of Indigenous people that exist in Canadian pop culture and literature. 

  • Dismantling- returning back to themselves or pulling apart stereotypes to understand how they work (to challenge them). 

  • Exposure- to expose racism and the white institution's true nature and effects on Indigenous people. 

  • Creation- the creation of new knowledge.  Method

    • Provides the tools (ceremony, protocal, sharing circle) for methodology

    • Way of doing something

  • Methodology 

    • Frames questions, shapes analyses and determines instruments.

    • Affects the selection of methods.

    • A systym of methods used in Indigenous studies

  • Qualitative Research 

    • With a qualitative research approach: Indigenist research methodology privileges Indigenous voices, resistance, and political integrity

  • Quantitative Research 

    • In quantitative research takes a strength-based approach to statistical data, less importance on Indigenous voices, more fact based.

  • Insurgent research methodology

    • Grounded in Indigenous worldviews and is action-oriented, providing the community with final authority.

  • tribal epistemology

    • is the system of knowledge production (Kovach)

    • (Wilson) said knowledge can’t be owned or discovered, is merely a set of relationships that may be given visible form.

    • Debate cautions against full adoption of Indigenous epistemologies due to their inability to capture pre-contact Indigenous epistemologies.

    • A system of knowledge production which is shared not owned

  • Ontology 

    • As the categories used to explain the world around us and our nature of being

    • The study of who we are, our nature and how we are connected with the land

  • Axiology 

    • Encompasses relational accountability, Set of ethics or morals that guides the process of Indigenous research

  • Indigenous 

    • The Umbrella term used in Canada refers to First Nations, Métis and Inuit individuals (also refers to: Individuals who inhabited or existed on their land since time immemorial)

  • First Nations

    •             The term refers to an Indigenous person distinct from Métis or Inuit. The term originates in the 1970s and refers to those who are legally considered “Indians” in the Constitution Act 1982, s.35. In Manitoba, First Nation peoples include the Néhiyaw, Dakota (Assiniboine), Dakota, Anishinaabe, Anishininew, and Dene

  • Metis

    • Refers to an Indigenous person who self-identifies of the historic Métis nation Ancestry, is distinct from other Aboriginal peoples and is accepted by the Métis nation.

  • Inuit 

    • The Inuit are recognized as Indigenous people and are registered in Ottawa, but the Indian Act does not apply to the Inuit. The Inuit do not have reserves. They have received Indigenous titles to the lands in the North that are recognized as belonging to them by the federal and territorial governments.

  • Aboriginal 

    •         The Canadian Constitution Act of 1982 uses the term to describe the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit, whose rights are recognized and affirmed within the document. Although used in a legal context in your work when not referring specifically to s.35 of the constitution or government policy, avoid using this term.

  • Native American/Canadian

    • Outdated considered derogatory term, implies that Indigenous peoples are the property of the country and belong to it.

  Outline the five w’s (who, what, where, when, why) for the following 

  1. Role of Education TRC Murray Sinclair

  1.     Who: Murray Sinclair: Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

  1. What: TRC result of the IRSSA agreement to recognize the suffering and traume experienced by Indigenous students at residential schools. Providing financial compensation, funds for research

  2. Where do we want to be: a better relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, and to no longer colonize the Indigenous culture

  3. When do we want this: now, looking at our education system and seeing ways to improve

  4. Why it’s important: to change stereotypes surrounding Indigenous peoples and address how to Canadian gov. Has treated them past/present.

  5. Treaties in Manitoba 

     1. Who: Indigenous peoples who are in Manitoba

     2. What: 5 treaties passed throughout 1871-1875, (Treaty 1(1871), Treaty 2(1871), Treaty 3(1873), Treaty 4(1874), Treaty 5(1875))

     3. Where: Manitoba – Treaty 1: Southern mb, Winnipeg, Treaty 2: Southwestern mb, Treaty 3: Southeastern, treaty 4: above treaty2, Treaty 5: mid-northern mb east-west

     4. When:1871-1875

     5. Why: provide a framework for living together and sharing the land Indigenous peoples traditionally occupied

  6. Manitoba Metis Federation Regions 

     1. Who: Métis federations

     2. What: 7 regions in Manitoba of Métis

     3. Where: Throughout Manitoba federations ( Northwest Region, The Pas region, Thompson Region, Interlake Region, Southeast Region, Southwest Region, Winnipeg Region)

     4. When:

     5. Why:

  7. Inuit in Manitoba 

     1. Who:

     2. What:

     3. Where:

     4. When:

     5. Why:

  8. Province of Manitoba Aboriginal Population Census 2016

     1.  Who: in 2016, there were 223,310 Aboriginal people in Manitoba, making up 18.0% of the population.

     2. What: A Census conducted to document the total population of Aboriginal Identity and  Registered or Treaty Indian status in Manitoba.

     3. Where: Manitoba

     4. When: 2016

     5. Why:

  Explain the following concepts.

  • Indigenous Studies R’s of research

    • Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, relationship and Responsibility

    • Indigenous studies as a discipline must uphold the responsibilities of research, ensure research is relevant to communities and serves with reciprocity, demonstrate respect through humanity, and grant sovereignty to the community through the right of refusal, and through relationships.

  • The role of Indigenous Studies in destruction, dismantling, exposure & creation

    • Destruction- Challenging the stereotypes of Indigenous people that exist in Canadian pop culture and literature. 

    • Dismantling- returning back to themselves or pulling apart stereotypes to understand how they work (to challenge them). 

    • Exposure- to expose racism and the white institution's true nature and effects on Indigenous people. 

    • Creation- the creation of new knowledge.