The Challenges of Indigenous Research

Abstract

What constitutes indigenous research and what is its purpose? With whom should indigenous researchers negotiate? Inquiry into indigenous research tends to focus on those Native researchers who are academically trained. This article looks, instead, into how indigenous organizations set up infrastructures, both conceptual and administrative, to form grassroots researchers outside of the Academy, looking at: how they define research, what they think research is for, who constitutes the “community” toward which this research is oriented, and how these researchers use writing. The article focuses on several research initiatives taking place under the umbrella of the Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca) in southwestern Colombia.

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