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Indigenous Methodologies Bibliography
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Alfred, Gerald R. Peace, Power, Righteousness : an Indigenous Manifesto. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Alfred, Gerald R. Wasaʹse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom. Peterborough, Ont.; Orchard Park, N.Y.: Broadview Press, 2005.
Alfred, Taiaiake, Kaweienón:ni Peters, Tekahiónhake Peters, University of Victoria, and Indigenous Governance Program. Everyday Mohawk = Kanien’kéha satá:ti tsi tesatawénrie. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, Indigenous Governance Program], 2004.
Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Biolsi, Thomas, and Larry J Zimmerman. Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.
Brown, Leslie Allison, and Susan Strega. Research as Resistance Critical, Indigenous and Anti-oppressive Approaches. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10191692.
Research as Resistance: Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-oppressive Approaches. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2005.
Cajete, Gregory. Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence. Santa Fe, N.M.: Clear Light Publishers, 2000.
Campbell, Howard. Zapotec Struggles: Histories, Politics, and Representations from Juchitán, Oaxaca. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice. ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series. Mahwah, N.J: L. Erlbaum, 2005.
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: MR, 1972.
Chilisa, Bagele. Indigenous Research Methodologies. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2012.
Chiñas, Beverly. The Isthmus Zapotecs: Women’s Roles in Cultural Context. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
Chiñas, Beverly. The Isthmus Zapotecs: a Matrifocal Culture of Mexico. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992.
Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.
Churchill, Ward. Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Covarrubias, Miguel. Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. London; New York; New York, N.Y.: KPI ; Distributed by Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986.
Cruz, Víctor de la. Guie’ sti’ diidxazá = La flor de la palabra. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1999.
Cruz, Víctor de la. El pensamiento de los binnigula’sa’: cosmovisión, religión y calendario con especial referencia a los binnizá. México, D.F.; Santa María Ixcotel, Oaxaca: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia : Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) : Casa Juan Pablos ; Instituto Estatal de Educación Pública de Oaxaca, 2007.
Davis, Wade. The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2009.
Deloria, Philip Joseph. Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins; an Indian Manifesto. [New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Deloria, Vine. The World We Used to Live in: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Pub., 2006.
Denzin, Norman K, Yvonna S Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. Los Angeles: Sage, 2008.
Douglas, Stan, and Or Gallery. Vancouver Anthology: a Project of the Or Gallery. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks ; Or Gallery, 2011.
Fanon, Frantz. A Dying Colonialism. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Fanon, Frantz, and Constance Farrington. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press, 1968. ! 2!
Fogarty, William, and Inge Kral. “Indigenous Language Education in Remote Communities.”http://caepr.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Publications/topical/TI2011_11_Fogarty_Kral_language.pdf(December 2011). https://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/9737.
Francis, Daniel. The Imaginary Indian: The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture. Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1992.
Garcia, Ofelia. “Education, Multilingualism and Translanguaging in the 21st Century.” In Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising the Local, edited by Ajit Monhanty, Minati Panda, Robert Phillipson, and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, 128–145. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan (former Orient Longman), 2009.
García, Ofelia. “En/countering Indigenous Bilingualism.” Journal of Language, Identity, and Education 8, no. 5 (September 9, 2009): 376–380.
González, Roberto J. Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Hayden, Tom. The Zapatista Reader. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002.
Huvila, Isto. “Participatory Archive: Towards Decentralised Curation, Radical User Orientation, and Broader Contextualisation of Records Management.” Archival Science 8, no. 1 (2008): 15–36. doi: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/10.1007/s10502-008-9071-0.
Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues. Indigenous Peoples: a Global Quest for Justice : a Report for the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Zed Books, 1987.
Jordan, Steven. “Who Stole My Methodology? Co-opting PAR.” Globalisation, Societies and Education 1, no. 2 (2003): 185–200. doi:10.1080/14767720303913.
Kenny, Carolyn Bereznak. A holistic framework for aboriginal policy research. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 2004.
King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
King, Thomas. The Truth About Stories: a Native Narrative. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Kovach, Margaret. Indigenous Methodologies : Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Kovach, Margaret. Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Louis, Renee Pualani. “Can You Hear Us Now? Voices from the Margin: Using Indigenous Methodologies in Geographic Research.” Geographical Research 45, no. 2 (2007): 130–139. doi:10.1111/j.1745- 5871.2007.00443.x.
Maldonado Alvarado, Benjamín. Autonomía y comunalidad india: enfoques y propuestas desde Oaxaca. Oaxaca: CONACULTA-INAH : CEDI : Movimiento Pedagógico Plan Piloto CMPIO : Secretaría de Asuntos Indígenas, 2002.
Maldonado Alvarado, Benjamín. Los indios en las aulas: dinámica de dominación y resistencia en Oaxaca. México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2002.
Marcos, and Juana Ponce de Leon. Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001.
Marker, Michael. “Indigenous Voice, Community, and Epistemic Violence: The Ethnographer’s ‘Interests’ and What ‘Interests’ the Ethnographer.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 16, no. 3 (2003): 361–375. doi:10.1080/0951839032000086736.
McCarty, Teresa L., and Leisy T. Wyman. “Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism—Theory, Research, Praxis.” Journal of Language, Identity & Education 8, no. 5 (October 30, 2009): 279–290.
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. New York: Orion Press, 1965.
Menchú, Rigoberta, and Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. I, Rigoberta Menchú: an Indian woman in Guatemala. London: Verso, 1984.
Mertens, Donna M, Fiona Cram, and Bagele Chilisa. Indigenous Pathways into Social Research Voices of a New Generation. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press, 2013. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=506652.
Meyer, Lois, and Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado, eds. New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South, and Central America. Open Media Series. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2010.
Mihesuah, Devon A. Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. ! 3!
Mihesuah, Devon A. Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Mihesuah, Devon A. So You Want to Write About American Indians? a Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=127273.
Mihesuah, Devon A, and Angela Cavender Wilson. Indigenizing the Academy Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=103468.
Pennycook, Alastair. Language as a Local Practice. 1st ed. Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York: Routledge, 2010.
Regina Cortina. “Empowering Indigenous Languages and Cultures.” European Education 42, no. 3 (2010): 53– 67.
Rendón Monzón, Juan José. Taller de Diálogo Cultural : Metodología Participativa Para Estudiar, Diagnosticar y Desarrollar Las Culturas de Nuestros Pueblos /. Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara, Universidad Iberoamericana León, Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, Científicos, Artísticos, Tradicionales y Lingü.sticos Ce-Acatl, A.C., 2004.
Renville, Florestine Kiyukanpi, and Karen Lone Hill. Shaping Survival: Essays by Four American Indian Tribal Women. Scarecrow Press, 2006.
Royce, Anya Peterson. Becoming an Ancestor the Isthmus Zapotec Way of Death. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=421945.
Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.
Schwab-Cartas, Joshua. “Learning from Communities: Personal Reflections from Inside.” In Handbook of Participatory Video, edited by Elizabeth-Jane Milne, Claudia Mitchell, and Naydene De Lange, 383–396. Lanham, Md: AltaMira Press, 2012.
Semali, Ladislaus. What Is Indigenous Knowledge? : Voices from the Academy. New York: Falmer Press, 1999.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. Penguin, 1977.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies. London: ZED BOOKS LTD, 2012.
Taiaiake, Alfred. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom. Peterborough, Ont. [u.a.]: Broadview Press, 2005.
Wilson, Angela Cavender, and Michael Yellow Bird. For Indigenous Eyes Only: a Decolonization Handbook. Santa Fe: School of American Research, 2005.
Wilson, Shawn. Research Is Ceremony : Indigenous Research Methods. Black Point, N.S.: Fernwood Pub., 2008.
Yellow Bird, Michael, and Angela Cavender Wilson. For Indigenous Minds Only: a Decolonization Handbook. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 2012.
Supplementary Materials for “Caminando y Miando: a Reflection on Academic Practice,” 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44078.