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.
