Learning How to Ask: Reflections on Engaging American Indian Research Participants

Autor/inn/en	Hodge, Felicia Schanche; Maliski, Sally; Cadogan, Mary; Itty, Tracy L.; Cardoza, Briana
Titel	Learning How to Ask: Reflections on Engaging American Indian Research Participants
Quelle	In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 34 (2010) 4, S.77-90 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-6463
Schlagwörter	American Indians; Researchers; Story Telling; Tales; Indigenous Populations; Indigenous Knowledge; Beliefs; Personal Narratives; Narration; American Indian Culture; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? American Indian; Indianer; Researcher; Forscher; Erzählung; Sinti und Roma; Belief; Glaube; Erlebniserzählung
Abstract	Communication patterns and explanatory processes are culturally specific and not often compatible with research data-gathering approaches. Particularly in areas of medical research and health and health-care behavioral research, indigenous educators and researchers note their frustration when Western paradigms, academic traditions, and medical protocols and terminology are forced upon minority populations. Further, Linda Tuhiwai Smith points out that the term "research" is inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism. Questioning the Western model of ethical inquiry, Norman Denzin points out that refusal to "define indigenous peoples as subjects who have been turned in to the natural objects of white inquiry" is at the center of indigenous research. This commentary shares the research experience of behavioral health Native researchers, describes processes, and recommends directions for Native and non-Native researchers in planning for and implementing research that gathers and analyzes stories from Native research participants. Based upon knowledge gained by many years of research with American Indian populations, the authors' reflections of successful approaches to engaging American Indian research participants are discussed in order to assist other researchers in working sensitively with American Indians. (Contains 13 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. 3220 Campbell Hall, Box 951548, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1548. Tel: 310-825-7315; Fax: 310-206-7060; e-mail: sales@aisc.ucla.edu; Web site: http://www.books.aisc.ucla.edu/aicrj.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10