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- [Narrator] Indigenous Ways of Knowing:

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Considerations for Researchers Working

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in Indigenous Communities.

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Sovereignty, presented

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by the Center for Native
Child and Family Resilience.

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- [Ethleen] I think knowing
the protocols of the community,

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the nation, the village,
wherever we're going into,

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I think that's really important.

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And I think that would
really speak to respect

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and honor for the people.

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- [Narrator] Recognizing and
honoring Tribal sovereignty

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is one of four essential
IWOK knowledge areas.

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In the context of research and evaluation,

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it is vitally important that researchers

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and evaluators understand, acknowledge,

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and honor Tribal autonomy and
Tribal jurisdictional issues.

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- [Ethleen] One of the
things that I think about

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is John Neihardt came to our people

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and asked to speak to somebody
that knew our grandfather,

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Crazy Horse, our great leader,

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and he wanted to interview them.

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And so somebody sent him
to one of the relatives,

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an Elder named Black Elk.

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And he asked him if he knew of him

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and he could interview him and he said,

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"I've been waiting for you.

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You're going to tell my story."

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He said, "You're going to tell my vision."

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So, he said, "But I can only",

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and this wasn't just right
away, this was over time,

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"And I can only tell you
if you're related to me

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because this is my vision," he said.

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So he adopted him as a son
and he prayed about it,

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they filled the sacred pipe,

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and they prayed and he shared his vision.

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So that vision is now Black Elk Peaks,

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and it's translated into
hundreds of languages.

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People are really take to
his story and his vision.

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But what if he walked away and said,

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"No, I wanna speak to somebody

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about the grandfather, Crazy Horse."

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Or, "No, I don't wanna be adopted."

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That would have been lost.

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It was meant to be.

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It was meant to be that way.

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So I think about the things

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that the research and evaluation

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that's being done in our communities,

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and it really has to be prefaced
by knowing the protocols,

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and I guess being open to
them and to following them,

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even if it conflicts with our
own ways of understanding.

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- [Narrator] As researchers,
it is important to respect

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and honor cultural protocols
such as cultural adoptions.

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As evaluators, it is
critical for your work

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to understand community engagement,

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Indigenous wisdom and Indigenous practices

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as our people have been doing
this since time immemorial.

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- Oftentimes as evaluators,

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we had to come in once a
program had been developed.

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And here we are saying
honor Indigenous knowledge,

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work on issues of importance
of context and community,

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the importance of engagement,

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the importance of having
a cultural metaphor

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to kind of represent your program

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rather than just a logic model,

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but a metaphor built off of that,

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the importance of having
consultation across departments

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or across elements of the community

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and not see yourself as
we've got a grove of trees.

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It's just not one tree in a
grove, that's a community.

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But all of those things are important

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when you're developing programs.

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And I think we are very much able,

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as we articulate what is important

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in Indigenous research and evaluation

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to share that that is
wisdom that's important,

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even when we're developing our programs

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so that it's a natural marriage between

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what a program is about

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and how it's gonna build
in evaluation practice.

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I just hope that we can,

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from my perspective as evaluators caring

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about Indigenous practice,

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help people become more
embracing of Indigenous practice

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when they're developing proposals

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and pushing against some of
the some of the requirements

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in a proposal that don't quite fit

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in an Indigenous community.

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- [Narrator] When a non-Tribal
member enters Tribal land,

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they must learn and have great respect

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for traditional Native ceremonies.

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If you don't know about
Indigenous ceremonies,

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ask a Tribal member from that Tribe

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for direction, guidance,
and understanding.

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- [Lisa] That's where a lot of
times we open the door

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for the ceremonial things
that are taking place.

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A program like this has no working in...

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With monetary fund's
passing back and forth

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really don't have any business
in a Sundance or in a...

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Just trying to get to know

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what a Native American
church ceremony is like or,

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participate in some of these
other ceremonies that we have.

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That's not what we're saying here.

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We're saying it really has to be organic

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and it has to come from the heart

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and everybody has to really engage

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that relationship building process,

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and it takes time.

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- [Narrator] The Center for Native Child

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and Family Resilience 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 No. 90CA1853.

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are solely the responsibility

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of JBS International, Inc.

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and do not necessarily
reflect the official views

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of the Children's Bureau.