Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

What Is a Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies Framework?

To our knowledge, there are no direct definitions of what specifically constitutes a Critical Indigenous Research Methodology; however, we do have a sense of how and in what ways indigenous scholars have begun to critically address the call for indigenous-based research and practices. Denzin and Lincoln (2008) suggest that one way to begin to conceptualize CIRM is by considering the following position: “Critical indigenous inquiry begins with the concerns of Indigenous people” (p. 2), and the concerns of indigenous peoples are not necessarily confined to a dichotomous opposition of human concern versus environmental concern. Moreover, for Evans, Hole, Berg, Hutchinson, and Sookraj ...