ABSTRACT
Utilizing Jo-Ann Archibald’s methodology of storywork, this chapter explores three stories from our research that offer data analysis grounded in relationality in research with Indigenous youth, families, and communities. The authors situate themselves as doing research for, with, and in relation to Indigenous communities; individually and collectively. As such, their stories emphasize the expansive ways of determining who and what constitute “youth.” In this regard, relationality takes a different form. We are accountable to the how, the who and the where when analyzing data. Using storywork to locate the “connective tissue” of relationality, research is seen as action that should work toward becoming better ancestors.
