ABSTRACT

What is a methodology? How do we recognize one when we see it and how do we determine what sort of methodology it is? Equally importantly, what makes it Indigenous? These seem like straightforward enough questions, but they are surprisingly hard to answer using research tomes as your sources. Yet these questions must be both asked and answered as a first step in articulating an Indigenous quantitative methodology. Only when we understand what constitutes a methodology can we differentiate Indigenous quantitative methodologies from other kinds.