Editing Multiple Voices (section)

=Relational Accountability=

Within Indigenous (research) paradigms of collective responsibility, and intra-dependency- accountability is often understood in terms of recognizing one’s response-abilities and making oneself accountable to ones more-than-human relations<ref>Wilson, S. (2018). Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods: Fernwood Publishing.</ref><ref>McGregor, D. (2009). “Honouring Our Relations: An Anishnaabe Perspective on Environmental Justice.” In Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada, ed. Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole, Randolph Haluza-Delay, and Pat O’Riley, 27–41. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.</ref><ref>Kovach, M. (2009). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts. University of Toronto press.</ref>. 

Traditional understandings of accountability within western academia as the occasional ‘presenting back’ final outcomes of research to partnering communities, come across as distant and disengaged in comparison. 

[[File:4.41.png|border|Selected testimonies from participants of the 2019 workshops in Gjoa Haven #4, artwork by Danny Aaluk]]

[[File:4.42.png|border|Selected testimonies from participants of the 2019 workshops in Gjoa Haven #5, artwork by Danny Aaluk]]

In the case of Gjoa Haven, many community members expressed feeling like they had to fend for themselves after the considerable cut in polar bear quota. And that the support they were promised, was never delivered.

[[File:4.43.png|border|Selected testimonies from participants of the 2019 workshops in Gjoa Haven #6, artwork by Danny Aaluk]]

<div class="next_choice">Look again at the Voices of Thunder slideshow. Take your time, and let each of the testimonies sink in. An emergent insight shapes as you sit at your table. 

Visit this '''"Landmark"''' insight. 


Or,


'''"Keep Going"''' to finish the testimonial reading and find Gjoa Haven's "Voices of Thunder" on the cusp of their emergence.</div>



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<span class="pop-up landmark link" data-page-title="Listening_&_Witnessing_Landmark" data-section-id="0" data-encounter-type="Landmark">[[Listening & Witnessing Landmark|Landmark: Listening and Witnessing]]</span>