Editing Not Engaging Indigenous Scholarship

Although it is possible to think about correspondence, intra-dependency, possibility , and response-ability while never reading a page of Indigenous scholarship, this would be an in-appropriate path to choose when working on questions of knowledge relating, situated in community-based research.  

To only rely on "New Materialist" scholarship, or comparable schools, thinkers and scientist that contributed to the western genealogy of generative ontologies, is to erase the rich history of Indigenous thinking that contributes to such thinking, and Indigenous scholarship itself<ref>Watts, V. (2013). Indigenous place-thought and agency amongst humans and non humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!). Decolonization: Indigeneity, education & society, 2(1).</ref><ref>Todd, Z. (2016). An indigenous feminist's take on the ontological turn:‘Ontology’is just another word for colonialism. Journal of historical sociology, 29(1), 4-22.</ref><ref>Rosiek, J. L., Snyder, J., & Pratt, S. L. (2020). The new materialisms and Indigenous theories of non-human agency: Making the case for respectful anti-colonial engagement. Qualitative inquiry, 26(3-4), 331-346.</ref>. 

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In my research I put western scholarship in dialogue with Indigenous scholarship. 

I engage practices like "wayfaring" and paradigms like "Agential Realism", from western thinkers to formulate ways of thinking outside of classic subject/object divides, while putting the processes and ethics that come with these approaches in dialogue with Indigenously formulated principles of ethical engagement.</div>



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'''"Return"''' to cut 3 to start tracing the Bearwatch project. 

<span class="return to-cut-3 link" data-page-title="Wayfaring the BearWatch Project" data-section-id="8" data-encounter-type="return">[[Wayfaring the BearWatch Project#TEK Workshops|Return to Cut 3: Wayfaring the BearWatch Project]]</span>