USAI (utility self-voicing access inter-relationality) research framework

As the OFIFC welcomes all informed and principled allies to partner, cooperate, and collaborate with the Federation and the communities, when appropriate and required, this document has been developed as a guide to our research principles and ethical considerations, to our rules of research conduct and the goals of our research endeavors. [...] We also acknowledge that, in the last decade, In PAR, which pulls thoughts, much has been written about reflections, and actions out of The decolonizing research approaches Predicted and The Validated and into and the ethics of research with The Possible and The Real, “human Indigenous communities and among actors are both willful and capable Indigenous people(s). [...] Our Research Framework, named USAI after the four ethical principles that govern it, Utility, Self-Voicing, Access, and Inter-relationality, is designed to ensure the integrity of our research from the perspective of the knowledge holders and knowledge authors. [...] Elders Both the purpose of the and the student share and co-author interaction and the type of the knowledge generated through the knowledge being sought interaction. [...] If the student wants to must be explicitly stated, and publish the record of the interaction, the potential biases of the s/he needs to vet her/his account knowledge seeker addressed in through the Elders.