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Table 2 Recommendations for Indigenous strengths-based health research

From: Conceptualizing Indigenous strengths-based health and wellness research using group concept mapping

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Actionable Recommendations

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