Community Relationships within Indigenous Methodologies

This chapter centers on the aspects and ethics of conducting research within community contexts and, specifically, highlights an urban Indigenous research project in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Through exploring existing literature and the use of dialogic conversation, the chapter underscores the criticality of relationship with community within Indigenous methodologies. This includes a commentary upon the community-researcher relationship within Indigenous contexts, the act of connecting with community, and the practice of community reciprocity in Indigenous methodologies. The conversation arises from a performative workshop in which the two authors performed a dialogic conversation between an Indigenous graduate student and Indigenous faculty member (each having experienced these identities) as they contemplate the criticality, complexities, and conditions of community relationships within Indigenous methodologies.