Libraries and Learning Commons: Indigenous Resources: Respectful Research

Respectful Research

Ojibwe People's Dictionary
The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is a searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers. It is also a gateway into the Ojibwe collections at the Minnesota Historical Society. Along with detailed Ojibwe language entries and voices, you will find beautiful cultural items, photographs, and excerpts from relevant historical documents. Whenever possible, we provide examples of documents in the Ojibwe language.
University of Toronto Syllabic Writing System
This guide introduces books, web sites, and other materials in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), encompassing the Ojibwe, Odawa, Chippewa, and Saulteaux languages.

TK Labels
The TK and BC Labels are an initiative for Indigenous communities and local organizations. Developed through sustained partnership and testing within Indigenous communities across multiple countries, the Labels allow communities to express local and specific conditions for sharing and engaging in future research and relationships in ways that are consistent with already existing community rules, governance and protocols for using, sharing and circulating knowledge and data. Communities customize their TK & BC Labels. To do this you will need to use the Local Contexts Hub which allows community control over customization and delivery to institutions, data repositories and other organizations.
How should I cite Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers?
Lorisia MacLeod, James Smith Cree Nation, is an Indigenous scholar and instruction librarian who developed templates to cite Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers that allow authors to provide both an in-text citation and a reference. Ms. MacLeod worked with NorQuest College's Elder in Residence and the staff of the Indigenous Student Center to develop the templates.
More Than Personal Communication Templates For Citing Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers
In this project report, I introduce the citation templates for Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers that I created in partnership with the staff of the NorQuest Indigenous Student Centre. These citation templates have been adopted/linked to by twenty-five institutions across Canada and the United States. They represent an attempt to formalize something that Indigenous scholars have been doing for decades: fighting to find a better way to acknowledge our voices and knowledges within academia.

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I outline how the project was developed, highlighting the importance of stable, respectful relationships, before delving into some of the literature and personal experiences that provided the reasoning for why more culturally responsive citation is needed. Part of the background is acknowledging my own experiences as an Indigenous scholar, but I also draw on literature from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars to illustrate the interdisciplinary need for these templates. I provide in-depth explanations of each element in the new citation templates to explain the reasoning behind and/or importance of each element. For example, I outline why including the individual’s nation/community is important for breaking down the pan-Indigenous stereotype and helping scholars to recognize the variation of knowledge across the hundreds of unique Indigenous communities. While the main focus of this paper will be these specific citation templates, I hope that it will also empower, inspire, and provide a case study of how academia can make small changes to improve the respectful recognition of Indigenous knowledges and voices. Given the recent focus in educational institutions on being more inclusive of Indigenous ways of knowing, I think it is only right that we also look at reconsidering how we treat things like Indigenous oral knowledge in academia and whether there are systems in place that implicitly prioritize written knowledge over oral knowledge in a form of ongoing colonialism.

Indigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines (by UBC)
Includes terms to use and avoid when writing and speaking about Indigenous peoples.
Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion: Inclusive Language Guidelines (by American Psychological Society)
These inclusive language guidelines are written for those working to champion equity, diversity, and inclusion in the spaces that they learn, teach, work, or conduct research.
Research Guidelines with Indigenous Peoples (by Sheridan College)
This document is designed to provide Sheridan faculty, staff and students with suggested practices to guide their research when working with Indigenous Peoples and to establish a set of standards to ensure that all research activities are undertaken with care and respect.

Learning Portal - Inquire: Research Protocols Hub

Inquire: Research Protocols
Research protocols are codes of conduct to ensure that research practices and methodology used when conducting research relating to Indigenous population is done ethically and responsibly.