ABSTRACT
Runner: Over the past sixty years Indigenous scholars the world over have challenged facets of Western knowledge and knowledge acquisition. We have attempted to understand research from our own perspectives. This next presentation does this and more as it moves beyond Western philosophical positions to the Ularaka-the philosophical knowledge and practices-of the Arabana people. This morning I have the pleasure of introducing a person who has traveled a great distance to present on her dissertation which exemplifies a:
• passionate naming of “assimilative intent”; • use of Indigenous philosophy, ontologies, metaphor, and language within
research; • complex and detailed discussion of “expert”-led resistance to change; and • vigilant demonstration of the multi-faceted and parallel nature of
existence.
