Research and (Re?)Conciliation: Imagining Eighth Fire Scholarship in Action

Abstract

"if Indigenous attitudes to the practice of research are to be adopted because they are valuable-because they help us to map out a good process, which results in a beneficial product-then these methods are equally valuable and applicable to projects in which there are no Indigenous participants. Respect, Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Reverence ... are good research pillars that inform a healthy and healthful research process and that yield real and lasting benefits for Indigenous research partners.... it is in this historical moment, as this nation takes conscious stock of the wreckage wrought by those who processually upheld those binaries in their quest to write a New World empire into being, that these structures, their resultant cognitive frameworks, and alternatives must be most vigorously interrogated for a process of repair to begin."