Indigenous Learning Resource Guide
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Overview
Peer-reviewed publications, book recommendations, blog posts, guides, and other learning resources with a focus on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples.

Contents
This page contains links to Indigenous learning resources.
- First Nations Information Governance Centre (n.d.). OCAP: Ownership, control, access, and possession.
- Promoting self-determined Indigenous data governance in Canada: The Métis Health Research and Data Governance Principles, Health Promotion International. Henry, R., Gabel, C., et al. (2026)
- National Strategy on Research. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. (2018)
- CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. The Global Indigenous Data Alliance. Research Data Alliance International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group. (2019)
- Bartlett, C., Marshall, M., & Marshall, A. (2012). Two-Eyed Seeing and other lessons learned within a co-learning journey of bringing together Indigenous and mainstream knowledges and ways of knowing. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2(4), 331–340.
- Archibald JA, Lee-Morgan J, De Santolo J, eds. Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology. ZED Books Ltd; 2019
- Drawson, A. S., Toombs, E., & Mushquash, C. J. (2017). Indigenous research methods: A systematic review. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 8 (2).
- Kilian A, Fellows TK, Giroux R, Pennington J, Kuper A, Whitehead CR, Richardson L. Exploring the approaches of non-Indigenous researchers to Indigenous research: a qualitative study. CMAJ open. 2019;7(3):E504-9.
- Gaudet, J. C. (2019). Keeoukaywin: The Visiting Way — Fostering an Indigenous Research Methodology. Aboriginal Policy Studies, 7(2), 47–64.
- Ferrazzi, P., Tagalik, S., Christie, P., Karetak, J., Baker, K., & Angalik, L. (2019). Aajiiqatigiingniq: An Inuit consensus methodology in qualitative health research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1–12.
- Absolon, Kathleen E. Kaandossiwin. How We Come to Know: Indigenous Re-Search Methodologies. 2nd edition., Fernwood Publishing, 2022.
- Quinless, Jacqueline M. Decolonizing Data : Unsettling Conversations about Social Research Methods. 1st ed., University of Toronto Press, 2022.
- Kovach, Margaret, and EBSCOhost. Indigenous Methodologies : Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts. Second edition., University of Toronto Press, 2021.
- Smith, L. T. (2021). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Quinless, J. M. (2022). Decolonizing data: Unsettling conversations about social research methods. University of Toronto Press.
- Wilson, S. (2020). Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Fernwood Publishing.
- Ongomiizwin Indigenous Institute of Health and Healing & George & Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation. (2022). Indigenous Healthcare Quality Framework (Version 1.4).
- O’Keefe, V. M., Maudrie, T. L., Cole, A. B., Ullrich, J. S., Fish, J., Hill, K. X., … & Walls, M. L. (2023). Conceptualizing Indigenous strengths-based health and wellness research using group concept mapping. Archives of Public Health, 81(1), 71.
- McBeath, B., Franks, O., Delormier, T., Périllat-Amédée, S., McComber, A., Abigosis, T., … & Lévesque, L. (2021). Reflecting on the use of Concept Mapping as a Method for Community-Led Analysis of Talking Circles. Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, 1(2).