Kaandossiwin, 2nd ed.: How We Come to Know: Indigenous Re-Search Methodologies

by Kathleen E.  Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)

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.

Genres: Nonfiction

304 pages, Paperback

Published July 19, 2022

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cited Kathleen E. Absolon a lot in my thesis study. I hesitated at first as a white researcher until my supervisor convinced me to read this because I didn't want to take up space where I didn't belong. However, Kaandossiwin discusses how non-Indigenous researchers can be part of this as well.