Indigenous Methodologies Quotes

“When we ask others to share stories, it is necessary to share our own, starting with self-location.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“story and knowing have been tightly bound together as a legitimate form of understanding since time immemorial.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“collecting data is the gifting of another’s story to a researcher:”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“data are more than things; they are living connections animated through the exchange of story.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“From a traditional Nêhiyaw perspective, seeking out Elders, attending to holistic epistemologies, and participating in cultural catalyst activities (dream, ceremony, prayer) are means for accessing inward knowledge and the spirit force.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“In summary, a conceptual framework is a plan that guides the researcher in developing a research question; contemplating epistemology, theory, and ethics; engaging with community; self-situating; considering existing knowledge; hearing story; choosing methods and analytical strategies; and presenting the research and arranging for reciprocity in disseminating findings.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“The theory choice will be influential in all aspects of research but specifically so in analysis and interpretation”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“The thinking (philosophy) and doing (method) in research methodology are guided by the research purpose, question, and aim.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“For a methodology to be correctly identified as an Indigenous methodology, it must be anchored in Indigenous epistemology, theory, ethics, story, and community.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“Indigenous research, then, is about discovering new understandings as these relate to Indigenous peoples. Indigenous research is an inclusive term, and it casts a wide net.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“researcher “you are answering to all your relations when you are doing research” (p. 177). Indigenous”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“Abductive knowledge comes to us in the a-ha moment – an insight that can be described as a flash of knowing. It is the creative insight.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“Reflexivity is the researcher’s own self-reflection in the meaning-making process.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“Now as Indigenous researchers we need to move beyond these, beyond merely assuming an Indigenous perspective on these non-Indigenous paradigms” (p. 176). Shawn Wilson cautions us that”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“There is an epistemological difference between Western and Indigenous thought, and subsequently a need for both Western and Indigenous methodologies.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

“Indigenous methodologies are steeped in body, story, place, land, community, and spirit.”
― Margaret Kovach, Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts