Kaandossiwin: How We Come to Know

Addressing how indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by Western scientific means of knowledge production, this reference challenges this colonialist rejection by examining the work of 14 scholars who utilize indigenous worldviews. The analysis goes beyond studying these academics’ efforts, delving into their personal experiences during the production of their work and describing how they recreate their methodologies. The discussion explores the ways these researchers operate within mainstream academia, rendering their methods visible and helping to guard alternative forms of knowledge from colonial repression. Understanding these intellectuals’ approaches as guided by paradigms, principles, processes, and contexts, this consideration argues that they are holistic, relational, and interdependent with indigenous philosophies and ways of life.