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- [Narrator] Indigenous Ways of Knowing.

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Considerations for Researchers

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Working in Indigenous Communities,

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Reciprocity.

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Presented by the Center for Native Child

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and Family Resilience.

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Paulette Running Wolf, Ph.D.

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Enrolled Blackfeet Tribal Member.

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CEO, Running Wolf & Associates.

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- [Paulette] Often the community
never knows what happens.

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What was the results of that?

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What did we learn out of that?

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What did we get back out of that?

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One of the things that we've done

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in our institutional review board

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is request right up
front on the application,

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all right, how can you
reciprocate back to the community?

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- [Narrator] In the context
of research and evaluation,

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reciprocity can be thought of

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as the balance, equilibrium, or congruence

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that exists between researchers
and research participants.

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- [Paulette] You're
getting this information.

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We want to know what it
is you can contribute.

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And in some cases, it was,

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and we help give them ideas,

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train a data programmer to
look at data in a certain way.

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Data entry, right, maybe,

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and leaving that data set with them.

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- [Narrator] Researchers
should ask themselves,

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what am I bringing to, taking from,

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and leaving the community?

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- [Paulette] It's not just
always about me, me, me.

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I take the data set with me.

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We examine it, we analyze it,
we interpret it without input.

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But involving them every step of the way

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is really important,

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and so, like I mentioned earlier,

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it builds skills and it
leaves that piece there.

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So thinking about how,

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maybe they do a community presentation

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as a contribution back when they finish.

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That's part of it.

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Because if they don't do it,

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then we're not going to be open

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to another application
from that investigator.

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We've just made a decision
as a board not to do that.

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So we continually look for ways

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to make sure that there's
that element of openness

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and contribution and
joining and connectedness.

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And if they can't make that
community presentation,

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well, they darn well better do
something else to replace it

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and within a certain period of time.

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And that's just the way I feel.

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I think we need to be able
to empower communities

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to pick this up on their own.

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And they will someday.

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I see it happening.

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Here and there, small pieces,

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community stepping up and saying,

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I'm interested in looking at this aspect

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of intervention in our community.

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I want to try to see if this works.

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If we can really provide that connection

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and we can show that
all of these connections

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to ceremonials to naming, what have you,

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if those work, we're gonna use them.

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And they make those
determinations, we don't.

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And that knowledge builds,

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and they reach out and
they pull others in too.

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'Cause that's the way it
is in Native communities.

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And that's part of the
humbleness of Native people.

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We don't step up and showcase ourselves.

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We do not do that.

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We offer suggestions.

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We don't function in that way.

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We don't even think in that way.

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It wouldn't occur to you to take credit,

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this is my theory, you know,

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and start that competitive angle

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that Western society insists upon.

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Rather, it's ours.

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And we share that credit and
we join and we celebrate it.

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And that's what's exciting,

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and that's what we're about,

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through the people we serve.

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They don't serve us.

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We serve them.

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- [Narrator] The Center for Native Child

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and Family Resilience

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was funded by the Children's Bureau,

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Administration for Children and Families,

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U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services,

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under cooperative
agreement Number 90CA1853.

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reflect the official views

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