Building Partnerships With Indigenous Communities

<p>Non-indigenous researchers embark on research with indigenous communities with good intentions but can unintentionally continue to oppress. While existing research shows building partnerships with indigenous communities, requires researchers to work “with” not “for” communities and walk side-by-side, and to do so with reciprocity, respect, relevance, responsibility and reverence, this research study identified an iterative model to learn, follow, and emerge research relationships through ongoing connections and outlined the mindsets to consider and assess often. Ten non-indigenous researchers from the US and Canada shared their stories about building relationships with indigenous communities. Through their stories of successes and challenges, strengths and learnings, the position of the non-indigenous researcher was juxtaposed against the existing research of Kirkness and Barnhardt’s, 4 R’s for Indigenous Relationship Building model to identify concrete steps and mindsets.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis- Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Community Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2024

Author dc:creator

• Plamondon, Andrea

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Bradley Olson
• Dr. Judah Viola
• Dr. Tiffeny Jimenez

• qualitative research
• narrative research
• indigenous research
• indigenous relationships
• Community Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/797

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1855