From Oceania to North America, indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity. The term "indigenous storywork" has come to encompass the sheer breadth of ways in which indigenous storytelling serves as a historical record, as a form of teaching and learning, and as an expression of indigenous culture and identity. But such traditions have too often been relegated to the realm of myth and legend, recorded as fragmented distortions, or erased altogether.Decolonizing Research brings together indigenous researchers and activists from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to assert the unique value of indigenous storywork as a focus of research, and to develop methodologies that rectify the colonial attitudes inherent in much past and current scholarship. By bringing together their own indigenous perspectives, and by treating indigenous storywork on its own terms, the contributors illuminate valuable new avenues for research, and show how such reworked scholarship can contribute to the movement for indigenous rights and self-determination.

Identifies new approaches and methodologies for indigenous research, as well as a consideration of ethics and other practical aspects.

Part I: Aotearoa NZ1. Purakau: From the Inside Out - Jenny Lee-Morgan2. Within the Womb of our Ancestor: Restoring and Restorying our Ancestral Lnowledges through Wananga - Naomi Simmonds3. Naming our Names and Telling our Stories - Joeliee Seed-Pihama4. Purakau as Method: Storying Gender in Maori Worlds - Hayley Marama Cavino5. Indigenous Storywork and Law: Exploring Maori Legal Traditions - Carwyn Jones6. Whanau Storytelling as a Decolonial Research Method - Leonie PihamaPart II: Australia7. Yanyba Jarngkurr, Kingkalli: Song Tradition Renewal and Story-World Enactments of Sustainable Autonomy - Jason De Santolo, Gadrian Hoosan, Bruce King8. Indigenous Story-Telling: Decolonising Institutions and Assertive Self-Determination and implications for Legal Practice - Larissa Behrendt9. Designing a Sovereign Storytelling Model - Dr Romaine Moreton10. Fire Country: A Storied Journey into the Revitalising of Ancient Fire Knowledge Practices - Victor Steffensen11. Lilyology as a Transformative Framework for Decolonising Ethical Spaces within the Academy - Nerida Blair12. Storywork in Storytelling: Indigenous Knowledges as Literary Theory - Evelyn Araluen CorrPart III: Canada13. Indigenous Storywork: Past, Present, and Future - Jo-ann Archibald Q'um Q'um Xiiem14. Indigenous Visual Storywork for Indigenous Film Aesthetics - Dorothy Christian15. Using the Indigenous Storywork Principles to Guide Ethical Practices in Research - Sara Florence Davidson16. Leq'7es te Stsptekwll: Our Memories Long Ago - Georgina Martin and Elder Jean William17. Indigenous Storywork, Mathematics Education, and Community-Based Research - Cynthia Nicol, Joanne Yovanovich, Jo-ann Archibald