View recent exemplary and relevant research projects with Tribal and Indigenous communities. This is a working list that is being compiled as of fall 2020. Topics include:
- Research processes and protocols
- Community-based participatory research
- Education
- Climate change and environmental justice
- GIS/spatial
- Health
- Food Sovereignty
Tribal Research Processes, Protocols, and Ethics
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Books
- Decolonizing Methodologies, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
- Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts, by Margaret Kovach
- Indigenizing the academy: Transforming scholarship and empowering communities, edited by Devon Abbot Mihesua and Angela Cavender Wilson
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy, edited by M. Walter, T. Kukutai, S.Carroll, and D. Rodriguez-Lonebear
- The Oral History Manual, by Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan
Research and Papers
- Research that Benefits Native People | National Congress of American Indians
- Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Implications for Participatory Research and Community | AJPH | Vol. 98
- Indigenous Data Governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations | DSJ | Vol. 18 Issue 1
- Support of US Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Inclusion of Tribes in the Development of Tribal Data Governance Principles | National Congress of American Indians
- Exploring pathways to trust: a Tribal perspective on data sharing | Genetics in Medicine | Vol. 16 Issue 11
- Conducting Research with Tribal Communities: Sovereignty, Ethics, and Data-Sharing Issues | Environ Health Perspect | 120 Issue 1
- Creating Research Capacity Through a Tribally Based Institutional Review Board | AJPH | Vol. 103 Issue 12
- Indigenous Research Ethics Requirements: An Examination of Six Tribal Institutional
- Review Board Applications and Processes in the United States | JERHRE | Vol. 15 Issue 4
- Ethical Goals of Community Consultation in Research | AJPH | Vol. 95 Issue 7
- A culturally tailored research ethics training curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native communities| CPH | Vol. 9 Issue 1
- Self-Determination in Health Research: An Alaska Native Example of Tribal Ownership and Research Regulation | IJERPH | Vol. 14 Issue 11
- Recommendations From Tribal Experiences with Tribal Censuses and Surveys | National Congress of American Indians
- Best Practices for American Indian and Alaska Native Data Collection | SIHB
Institutions and Programs
Other Media
Community-Based Participatory Research
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Books and Guides
Research and Papers
- Community-based participatory research and integrated knowledge translation: advancing the co-creation of knowledge | Implementation Science | 12
- Identifying Community Needs and Resources in a Native Community: A Research Partnership in the Pacific Northwest | IJMHA | Vol. 8
- Building Capacity for Productive Indigenous Community – University Partnerships | Prevention Science | Vol. 21
- Multilevel and Community-Level Interventions with Native Americans: Challenges and Opportunities | Prevention Science | 21
- Advancing the Science of Community-Level Interventions | AJPH | 101 Issue 8
Institutions and Programs
Education
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Books and Guides
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom, by Bell Hooks
- Beyond the Asterisk, Understanding Native students in education, edited by Heather J. Shotton, Shelly C. Lowe, & Stephanie J. Waterman
- Indian subjects: Hemispheric perspectives on the history of Indigenous education, by Brenda J. Child and Brian Klopotek
- Dissident Knowledge in Higher Education, by Marc Spooner and James McNinch
- Engaging the “Race Question”, Accountability in U.S. Higher Education, by Alicia Dowd and Estella Bensimon
- On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, by Sara Ahmed
- Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the long view, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, & K. Wayne Yang
- Racism and Education: Coincidence or conspiracy? by David Gillborn
- Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought, by Sandy Grande
- Career Pathways Guidebook | American Indian College Fund
Research and Papers
- Tribal College Journal
- Decolonization is not a metaphor | DIES | 1 Issue 1
- Decolonizing education with Anishinaabe arcs: generative STEM as a path to indigenous futurity | ETRD | Vol. 68
- Entrepreneurial, Economic, and Social Well-Being Outcomes from an RCT of a Youth Entrepreneurship Education Intervention among Native American Adolescents | IJERPH | 17 Issue 7
- American Indian College Student Mentoring: A Study to Measure Changes in
- Self-Efficacy | Education Sciences | 10 Issue 2
- American Indian Social Work Students: Factors that Influence Success in Graduate School | JEBSW | Vol. 17 Issue 1
Institutions and Programs
Climate Change and Environmental Justice
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Books and Guides
- As Long as Grass Grows, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- College of Menominee Nation’s Sustainable Development Institute Builds Capacity for Tribal Climate Change Adaptation | College of Menominee Nation
- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation Climate Change Strategic Plan, by the CSKT of the Flathead Reservation
- Tribal Climate Adaptation Guidebook | The Oregon Climate Change Research Institute
- Tribal Climate Change Guide | The University of Oregon
Research and Papers
- Indigenous Nations’ Responses to Climate Change | AICRJ | Vol. 32 Issue 3
- Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene | Vol. 55 Issue 1
- Justice Forward: Tribes, climate adaptation, and responsibility | Climatic Change | 120
- If Indigenous Peoples Stand With the Sciences, Will Scientists Stand with Us? | Daedalus | Vol. 147 Issue 2
- Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Indigenous knowledge with western scientific science for effective adaptation | Environmental Science & Policy | Vol. 88
- Community-based research as a mechanism to reduce environmental health disparities in American Indian and Alaska Native communities | IJERPH | Vol. 12 Issue 4
- Exploring Effects of Climate Change on Northern Plains American Indian Health | Climatic Change | Vol. 120 Issue 3
- The impacts of climate change on tribal traditional foods | Climatic Change | 120 Issue 3
- Change Rippling through Our Waters and Culture | JCWRE | 169 Issue 1
- Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research? | SNR | Vol. 29 Issue 1
- Indigenous Women, Climate Change Impacts, and Collective Action | Hypatia | Vol. 29 Issue 3
- Responses of Native American cultural heritage to changes in environmental setting | AlterNative: International Journal of Indigenous Peoples | 15 Issue 4
- Native American tribal governments, cross-sectoral climate policy, and the role of intertribal networks | Climatic Change | Vol. 160
- The “value” of values-driven data in identifying Indigenous health and climate change priorities | Climatic Change | Vol. 158 Issue 2
Institutions and Programs
- Center for Humans & Nature: Think Here
- Changing Climate, Changing Culture | Gikinoo’wizhiwe Onji Waaban | GWOW
- Stewarding Native Lands | FirstNations.org
- Tribal Vulnerability Assessment Resources | The University of Washington
- Tribal Climate Change Project | The University of Oregon
- US Climate Resilience Toolkit | United States Global Change Research Program
- Tribal Climate Health – Helping tribes prepare for the health impacts of climate change
Other Media
GIS/Spatial
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Books and Guides
Research and Papers
- Developing a GIS Program at a Tribal College | Journal of Geography | Vol. 108
- Facilitating native land reacquisition in the rural USA through collaborative research and Geographic Information Systems | Geographical Research | Special Issue
- Habitat modeling for health sovereignty: Increasing indigenous access to medicinal plants in northern Maine, USA | Applied Geography | 56
- Expanding Toolkits for Heritage Perpetuation: The Western Apache Ethnography and Geographic Information Science Research Experience for Undergraduates | IJAGR | Vol. 6 Issue 1
- Sexual Assault Services Coverage on Native American Land | JFN | Vol. 10 Issue 2
- Environmental risk mapping of potential abandoned uranium mine contamination on the Navajo Nation, USA, using a GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis approach | ESPR | 27
Institutions and Programs
Other Media
Native Health
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Books and Guides
Research and Papers
- A framework for enhancing ethical genomic research with Indigenous communities | Nature Communications
- Native American Perspectives on Health and Traditional Ecological Knowledge | EHP | Vol. 126 Issue 12
- Tangled pasts, healthier futures: Nursing strategies to improve American Indian/Alaska Native health equity | Nursing Inquiry
- Accelerating and Strengthening Native American Health Research Through a Collaborative NIH Initiative | Prevention Science | Vol. 21 Supplement 1
- Encompassing Cultural Contexts Within Scientific Research Methodologies in the Development of Health Promotion Interventions | Prevention Science | Vol. 21
- Exploring Legal Issues in Tribal Public Health Data and Surveillance | Southern Illinois University Law Journal | Vol. 44
- The Imperative for Research to Promote Health Equity in Indigenous Communities | Prevention Science | Vol. 21
- Prevention Research with Indigenous Communities to Expedite Dissemination and Implementation Efforts | Prevention Science | Vol. 21
Institutions and Programs
- Research Ethics Training for Health in Indigenous Communities | rETHICS
- NCAI Genetics Resource Center | NCAI
- Health Impact Project | PEW Charitable Trusts
- Urban Indian Health Institute | Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB)
- Navajo Nation Human Resource Review Board | Navajo Nation
- Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (IRINAH) | NIH
- Indian Health Service | Indian Health Service (IHS)
- Tribal Public Health Data Toolkit | National Native Network