ABSTRACT
Decolonization refers to both the global decolonization movement where countries in Africa and Asia overthrew imperial powers and also the struggles of Indigenous peoples in settler contexts. The following focuses primarily on the struggles of Indigenous peoples and the ways they use research to advance decolonization by centering questions of land and Indigenous knowledge. In settler colonial contexts academic research can easily avoid Indigenous peoples even though the foundation of settler societies is the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from land. Decolonial methods require us to evaluate what knowledge is absent from our personal and collective analysis when we set out to do research. More specifically, it asks everyone, even when Indigenous peoples are not the centre of your research to consider questions of land, Indigenous knowledge, and settler colonization.
