"Relationships don't just shape Indigenous reality, they are our reality. Indigenous researchers develop relationships with ideas in order to achieve enlightenment in the ceremony that is Indigenous research. Indigenous research is the ceremony of maintaining accountability to these relationships. For researchers to be accountable to all our relations, we must make careful choices in our selection of topics, methods of data collection, forms of analysis and finally in the way we present information"-- Jacket.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral).

Getting started -- On the research journey -- Can a ceremony include a literature review? -- The elements of an Indigenous research paradigm -- Relationality -- Relational accountability -- Articulating an Indigenous research paradigm.