UTILITY USAI 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 is a guide to our research principles and ethical considerations. [...] PAR pulls thoughts, reflections, and actions out of The Predicted and The Validated into The Possible and The Real: Since the word “culture” is now widely recognized as a term “human actors are both willful and capable of thwarting of convenience, we note its everyday use when we refer to research prediction, and willful and capable of selecting Indigenous ways of seeing, knowing, believing, and a. [...] people remain more “…trusted informants, confidants, and advisors”, while in the latter, Indigenous communities and Trauma-informed approaches in Indigenous research are a people assume the rightful position of Creators and Keepers of critical component of community-driven praxis and a central knowledge and praxis. [...] OFIFC’s Indigenous Research Training Specific to Indigenous research and to the USAI Research Manual (OFIFC, 2014) includes an Evaluation Circle tool to help Framework is the recognition that, just as the research communities establish where they are in their process and orientation incorporates Indigenous ways of knowing and to what extent their research goals are realized. [...] As USAI research is conducted within the intricate web of The ultimate assessment of project and program “validity relationships, connections, interactions, and stories, we and reliability” is in the hands of the community and we recognize that the most challenging aspect of evaluation is emphasize that no translation, interpretation, or validation that what is to be “evaluated” and reported on ar.