From: Conceptualizing Indigenous strengths-based health and wellness research using group concept mapping
Cluster | Actionable Recommendations |
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1. Decolonial Research: Exists, Resists, Persists in the Face of Colonialism | • Support Indigenous scholars who are navigating Eurocentric systems (e.g., funding agencies) and their own tribal values • Funding agencies and institutions support strengths-based health research topics • Funding agencies and institutions allocate adequate time and funding to support relational, formative aspects of strengths-based research |
2: Indigenous Praxis: Positionality and Process for Being in Good Relation | • Emphasize and act to support relationality, including, but not limited to relationships to community, ancestors, lands, cultures • Promote relational processes of research, including honoring and respecting community relationships • Name, discuss, and address positionality and power within research |
3: Generating and Transforming Indigenous Futures | • Research should lead to action (e.g., narrative shifting, advocacy, services, policy, capacity building) |
4: Intergenerational Healing and Flourishing | • Research should benefit communities • Report and uplift community action and change through research |
5: Collective Wisdom: Original Instructions and Dynamic Futures | • Promote and act according to original (Indigenous) instructions and/or cultural teachings/values • Emphasize intergenerational connectedness • Acknowledge that communities and cultures adapt and evolve over time (e.g., be flexible) |
6: Centering Indigenous Ways and Cultures in Research | • Promote Indigenous Research Methodologies • Respect, cite, and employ Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, cultures, spirituality |