Indigenous methodologies have been
silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge
production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of
Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe re-searcher Kathleen Absolon
describes how Indigenous re-searchers re-theorize and re-create
methodologies. Indigenous knowledge resurgence is being informed by
taking a second look at how re-search is grounded. Absolon
consciously adds an emphasis on re with a hyphen as a process of
recovery of Kaandossiwin
and Indigenous re-search. Understanding Indigenous methodologies as
guided by Indigenous paradigms, worldviews, principles, processes and
contexts, Absolon argues that they are wholistic, relational,
inter-relational and interdependent with Indigenous philosophies,
beliefs and ways of life. In exploring the ways Indigenous
re-searchers use Indigenous methodologies within mainstream academia,
Kaandossiwin renders
these methods visible and helps to guard other ways of knowing from
colonial repression. This second edition features the author's
reflections on her decade of re-search and teaching experience since
the last edition, celebrating the most common student questions,
concerns, and revelations.