Indigenous Methodologies

This Research Guide provides links to resources about Indigenous Methodologies.

Journals

The Contemporary Pacific
Covers a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It features refereed articles that examine social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays. Each issue highlights the work of a Pacific Islander artist.
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies
The journal brings together emergent and ground breaking research in the field of Indigenous studies within the global community offering scope for critical international engagement and debate. As Critical Indigenous Studies is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field the journal's epistemological framework encompasses but is not restricted to Sociology, Law, Literature, Psychology, Education, Anthropology, History, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Visual and Performing Arts, Cultural studies, Queer studies, Feminism, Human Geography, Environmentalism, Postcolonial studies and Race studies. Published twice a year and all issues can be downloaded.
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society is an undisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online Open Access journal committed to supporting and advancing decolonization scholarship, practice, and activism within and, more importantly, beyond and against, the academy.
WINHEC: International Journal of Indigenous Education Scholarship
An open access, peer-reviewed publication celebrating Indigenous Knowledges. As a multidisciplinary publication, the WINHEC Journal is dedicated to the exploration and advancement of issues related to Indigenous education, research, culture, and language central to the lives of WINHEC (World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium) nations and members.
MAI Journal: A New Zealand Journal of Indigenous Scholarship
MAI Journal is an open access journal that publishes multidisciplinary peer-reviewed articles that critically analyse and address Indigenous and Pacific issues in the context of Aotearoa New Zealand. MAI Journal publishes three issues per year, April, August and December. MAI Journal is only published online and seeks to substantively engage with intellectual Indigenous scholarship.
International Journal of Indigenous Health (IJIH)
Established to advance knowledge and understanding to improve Indigenous health. The Journal seeks to bring knowledge from diverse intellectual traditions together with a focus on culturally diverse Indigenous voices, methodologies and epistemology. The Journal is peer-reviewed, online, open-access and shares innovative health research across disciplines, Indigenous communities, and countries. Previously titled: Journal of Aboriginal Health.
International Indigenous Policy Journal (IIPJ)
A peer-reviewed, policy-relevant research journal addressing issues pertaining to Indigenous Peoples throughout the world. Regionally, they represent North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The journal publishes 4 issues a year, 2010-Present. Full Text access is freely available online.

Other notable Indigenous Studies journals not currently available at UHMC Library but that we nonetheless want to make you aware of:

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
A peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that publishes scholarly research on Indigenous worldviews and experiences of decolonization from Indigenous perspectives from around the world.. AlterNative is published quarterly in print and online. AlterNative spans themes of origins, place, peoples, community, culture, traditional and oral history, heritage, colonialism, power, intervention, development and self-determination. Journal began in 2005. You can browse info on current and past issues on their website, but access to full-text content is only available by subscription. If you find an article you're interested in, contact us at the UHMC Library to check if access is available from other UH Libraries.
The Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAIS)
Based at the University of Minnesota, NAIS frames, deploys, and critically challenges the local and global contours of Indigenous studies. Published twice per year. You can browse info on current and past issues on their website, but access to full-text content is only available by subscription. If you find an article you're interested in, contact us at the UHMC Library to check if access is available from other UH Libraries.