ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the author lifelong decolonizing ceremony as a form of reconciliation, which involves an ongoing unlearning and relearning research journey. Reconciliation through decolonizing ceremony to an Indigenous style of research not only deepens participants' understanding of the impacts of the Western and colonial research process but also helps researchers to reclaim the meaning of research from and within the participant community's needs and knowledge. With reconciliation as decolonizing ceremony, the author want to believe that researcher and participant knowledge and empathy will no longer be ignored, neglected, or misapplied. In reconciliation, decolonizing both research and researcher is essential in community-based research, and the transformation helps in reclaiming the participants' voice. Reconciliation as decolonizing ceremony in research could enable researchers to explore self in the presence of others to gain a collective understanding of their shared experiences. Indigenous perspectives on meanings of land-water management and sustainability of the Laitu Khyeng Indigenous community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.
