ABSTRACT
We conclude our book with a discussion of the importance of building what we term “statistical literacy” among first world Aboriginal nations, communities, and researchers. By statistical literacy we refer, first, to understanding in terms of the categories used to collect, analyze, interpret, and use Indigenous data relating to our own peoples within our own nation-states. Second, and perhaps more urgently, we refer to the need to massively build the practice and production of statistical analysis under our own tent. We hope we have demonstrated in the previous five chapters the utility of our Indigenous quantitative methodological approach to guide Indigenous researchers towards both these ends. Certainly, statistical literacy has already begun to take hold in certain areas of the world (such as Aotearoa New Zealand) but, by and large, this remains the exception rather than the rule.
