ABSTRACT
The field of Indigenous methodologies has grown strongly since Tuhiwai Smith's ground-breaking book Decolonizing Methodologies. For the most part, however, there has been a marked absence of quantitative methodologies with the methods aligned with Indigenous methodologies predominantly qualitative. This chapter proposes that the absence of an Indigenous presence from Indigenous data production has resulted in an overwhelming statistical narrative of deficit for dispossessed Indigenous peoples around the globe. Using the theoretical concept of Indigenous LifeWorlds it builds on the core premises of Walter and Andersen's book Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies. Arguing for a fundamental disturbance of the Western logics of statistical data, it details recent developments in the field including the emergence of the Indigenous Data Sovereignty movement. The chapter also explores Indigenous quantitative methodologies in practice using the case study of a Tribal Epidemiology Centre in New Mexico.
