Episodes
Monday May 15, 2023
S1E12: Indigenous Insights: Kim van der Woerd
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
Dr. Kim van der Woerd is the Lead for Strategy and Relations at Reciprocal Consulting, a firm co-owned by four Indigenous women and founded in 2003.
Kim is a proud member of the ‘Namgis (Numgees) Nation, and completed her PhD in Psychology at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her dissertation research focused on a comprehensive participatory evaluation of a Federally funded First Nations substance abuse treatment centre. Kim has over 25 years of experience conducting local, provincial and national program evaluations, and research. Kim has received many accolades for her outstanding work including the BC Community Achievement Award and the The Mitchell Award from the BC Achievement Foundation in 2018, a Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award from the Canadian Evaluation Society in 2014, and the Michael Scriven Dissertation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evaluation Theory, Methodology or Practice in 2007.
Resources from this episode:
Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. (2nd Ed.). Zed Books.
Shawn Wilson’s Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Fernwood Publishing.
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge And The Teachings Of Plants. Milkwood Editions.
Monique Gray Smith’s adaptation, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Zest Books.
Transcript from this episode can be found here.
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Monday Apr 17, 2023
S1E11: Indigenous Insights: Abigail Echo-Hawk
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Abigail Echo-Hawk, MA, is an enrolled citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. She was born in the heart of Alaska where she was raised in the traditional values of giving, respect for all, and love.
Abigail is an auntie, sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, and a community member who works toward building a great future for the next generations. She serves her community as the Director of Urban Indian Health Institute and Executive Vice President of Seattle Indian Health Board where she works locally to provide public health services to the Seattle Urban Native community and nationally to engage community partners, conduct research and evaluation, and build capacity for Native organizations.
Resources from the episode
UIHI Indigenous Evaluation Resources: https://www.uihi.org/projects/indigenous-evaluation/
Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice: A Brown Paper (Shiree Teng & Sammy Nuñez) https://latinocf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Shiree-Teng-Measuring-Love.pdf
Malia Villegas: #lovemore
Malia Villegas: A roadmap for collaborative and effective evaluation in Tribal communities
Building the Sacred: An Indigenous Evaluation Framework for Programs Serving Native Survivors of Violence
https://www.uihi.org/resources/building-the-sacred-an-indigenous-evaluation-framework-for-programs-serving-native-survivors-of-violence/
Transcript from this episode can be found here.
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Monday Mar 27, 2023
S1E10: Indigenous Insights: Melanie Nadeau
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Dr. Melanie Nadeau, aka Dr. Mel, is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in Belcourt, North Dakota. She completed both her Master’s in Public Health in community health education with a concentration in health disparities and her PhD in social/behavioral epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Dr. Nadeau is a community engaged scholar and has worked more than 18 years on various research and evaluation projects within the American Indian community. She has successfully engaged a multitude of tribal health stakeholders from across the nation and is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Native communities. Dr. Mel currently serves as Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor for the Indigenous Health PhD program housed within the Department of Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Dr. Mel also serves on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Research Review Board, the American Public Health Association’s American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian board, and as program co-chair for the American Evaluation Association Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group.
Resources from the episode
Dr. Melanie Nadeau’s University of North Dakota Directory Page including her biography, digital stories about my educational journey, contact information, curriculum vitae, websites, courses, research/areas of interest, publications/presentations and stories featuring her work in the media.
Indigenous Evaluation Framework by Dr. Joan LaFrance and Richard Nichols. American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC). 2009. Here is the link to the AIHEC website that includes a link to Document Collections and Document Libraries .
A Framework for Evaluation. CDC. 1999.
The show transcript is available here.
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Monday Feb 06, 2023
S1E09: Indigenous Insights: Terrellyn Fearn Part 2
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Terrellyn Fearn is the Project Director of Turtle Island Institute, a global Indigenous social innovation think and do tank - a teaching lodge enabling transformative change. She brings wisdom and understanding of Indigenous well-being and community building through rematriation and Indigenous ways of knowing. Terrellyn’s work over the last 30 years has focused on advancing social justice and systems change in the area of health, gender-based violence, education, and child welfare having worked with over 400 rural and urban Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island.
In 2017, she was the Director of Outreach and Support Services for the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and led a 2.5 year process for family members and survivors of violence to share their truth. She is a MEd. candidate at York University and a Research Associate at the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience (WISIR) focusing on understanding complexity theory, ethical space of engagement, Indigenous feminism, and healing centered design. She sits on the Indigenous Advisory Circle for the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime focused on the decolonization of the Canadian criminal justice system.
Questions reflected in the episode include what can an understanding and relationship with Indigenous languages offer evaluation and inquiry? What is the opportunity of Etawaptmumk and how can we go deeper into the language and practices to learn about learning and reflection. How can we tell the stories of impact in ways that align with this journey?
Resources from the episode
More about Two-Eyed Seeing: http://www.integrativescience.ca/Principles/TwoEyedSeeing/
Article: Willie Ermine: Ethical Space of Engagement.
Photos from Terrellyn Fearn including 8-point star petroglyph, ribbon skirts, and bundle blanket
Join Turtle Island Institute Virtual Teaching Lodge
https://turtle-island-lodge.mn.co/share/SlH9yMlZxJZkXeCd
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Monday Jan 23, 2023
S1E08: Indigenous Insights: Terrellyn Fearn
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Terrellyn Fearn is the Project Director of Turtle Island Institute, a global Indigenous social innovation think and do tank - a teaching lodge enabling transformative change. She brings wisdom and understanding of Indigenous well-being and community building through rematriation and Indigenous ways of knowing. Terrellyn’s work over the last 30 years has focused on advancing social justice and systems change in the area of health, gender-based violence, education, and child welfare having worked with over 400 rural and urban Indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island.
In 2017, she was the Director of Outreach and Support Services for the Canadian National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and led a 2.5 year process for family members and survivors of violence to share their truth. She is a MEd. candidate at York University and a Research Associate at the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation & Resilience (WISIR) focusing on understanding complexity theory, ethical space of engagement, Indigenous feminism, and healing centered design. She sits on the Indigenous Advisory Circle for the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime focused on the decolonization of the Canadian criminal justice system.
Resources from the episode
Join Turtle Island Institute Virtual Teaching Lodge
https://turtle-island-lodge.mn.co/share/SlH9yMlZxJZkXeCd
Care and Systems Change Dialogues
https://youtube.com/@turtleislandinstitute-indi6341
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls final report
https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
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Monday Jan 09, 2023
S1E07: Indigenous Insights: Nicky Bowman
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Monday Jan 09, 2023
Dr. Nicole Bowman is President of Bowman Performance Consulting and an Associate Scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an Associate Editor and co-founder of Roots and Relations, a permanent section in the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. In 2018, Dr. Bowman received American Evaluation Association’s 2018 Robert Ingle Service Award, and was notably the youngest and first Indigenous awardee. She has served decades as chair or co-chair of AEA’s Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation Topical Interest Group, in addition to participating in numerous global evaluation initiatives. She is a curious, creative, and courageous innovator whose academic lodge sits at the place where traditional knowledge and Tribal sovereignty intersect with evaluation, policy and research.
Resources from this episode
Resource: BPC Academic Lodge
Book Chapter: Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation (2015)
Open Access Article: Looking Backward but Moving Forward: Honoring the Sacred and Asserting the Sovereign in Indigenous Evaluation
The show transcript is available here.
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Monday Dec 05, 2022
S1E06: Indigenous Insights: JoLee Sasakamoose
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Dr. JoLee Sasakamoose Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) is a member of the M'Chigeeng First Nation in Ontario and an active citizen of the Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. She is an Associate Professor in Educational Psychology and Counselling at the University of Regina. In collaboration with the First Nations communities of Saskatchewan, she co-authored the Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness Theory (ICRT), now known as the CRF, a theoretical framework to direct research that improves the health of Indigenous peoples in Saskatchewan. Dr. JoLee is the Wellness and Research Director of the Muskiki Muskwa Medicine Bear Healing Lodge and Peer Advocacy Services, part of the Indigenous Wellness Research Community Network (IWRCN). Dr. Sasakamoose is an Indigenous methodologist utilizing community and participatory-based research approaches with FN communities and peoples. From a strengths-based, trauma informed decolonizing lens, her research engages Indigenous peoples in defining health and healthy communities; explores the intergenerational effects of historical trauma and traditional healing methods as protective factors with Indigenous peoples; utilizes neurodecolonization, contemplative mind body practices and Sîtoskâkewin© expressive therapies in the promotion of health and wellbeing.
Resources from the episode:
Project: nato’ we ho win. https://pathssk.org/natowehowin/ The website has multiple reports, presentations, and videos about the work and what is being learned as a result.
Book: Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts, Second Edition, Dr. Margaret Kovach. https://utorontopress.com/9781487525644/indigenous-methodologies/
Article: Reflexive Reflection Co-created with Kehte-ayak (Old Ones) as an Indigenous Qualitative Methodological Data Contemplation Tool.
https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijih/article/view/33906
Article: Miýo-pimātisiwin Developing Indigenous Cultural Responsiveness Theory (ICRT): Improving Indigenous Health and Well-Being.
https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/iipj/article/view/7527
Article: Indigenous Birth Support Worker (IBSW) Program Evaluation: A Qualitative Analysis of Program Workers and Clients’ Perspectives. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2082644/v1
The show transcript is available here.
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Monday Nov 28, 2022
S1E05: Indigenous Insights:Paula Morelli & Peter Mataira
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Dr. Peter Mataira earned his doctoral degree in social policy and social work from Massey University, Albany campus in Auckland, New Zealand. He has published widely in areas of indigenous health, well-being and economic justice with particular emphasis on cultural research methodologies and social innovation and entrepreneurship. His clinical and community practice background is in mental and behavioral health, economic sustainability and working with marginalized indigenous people. He enjoys running, reading, music, playing tennis, rugby, travel, and spending time with his family.
Dr. Paula Morelli is retired, and continues to support the community through her work as a Clinical and Research Consultant and Affiliate Graduate Faculty at University of Hawai`i and in her work in Indigenous Evaluation. This includes their current work accompanying (walking alongside) Ulu `Ae Learning Center in Kalaeloa, HI in their development of programming and evaluation. She also supports the Journal of Indigenous Social Development as a member of the Editorial Board https://www.ucalgary.ca/journals/indigenous-social-development
Resources from the episode:
Film documenting one of their experiences working in a local community and development of Strengthens Enhancing Evaluation Research (SEER)
Article: Indigenizing Evaluation Research: A Long-Awaited Paradigm Shift, Dr. Peter Mataira & Dr. Paula Morelli
Handbook: Strengths-Enhancing Evaluation Research (SEER) Handbook: A Tool for ‘Aina-Based Program Evaluation - Paths to Relevant, Effective Program Development
Article: Guesthood as Ethical Decolonising Research Method, Dr. Graham Harvey
Website: Hawaii Pacific Evaluation Association (H-PEA)
Monday Nov 21, 2022
S1E04: Indigenous Insights: Tammy Mudge
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Tammy Mudge is L'nu (Illnew), from Glooscap First Nation, a mother of four and a member of the Mi'kmaq Nation. She is the Manager of Learning and Evaluation at Every One Every Day Kjipuktuk-Halifax, a non-profit organization working to build an ecosystem of inclusive and meaningful participation in and among neighbourhoods, and a part-time faculty member at Acadia University, where she teaches Decolonizing Community Development.
She is an active community member and Co-founder and Chair of the Glooscap First Nation Family Recreation Committee. Tammy is also a member of the Atlantic Indigenous Evaluation Stewardship Circle.
Resources from the Episode:
Learning & Impact Stories from the organization: https://www.halifaxiseveryone.ca/stories
Progress Reports: https://www.halifaxiseveryone.ca/progress-reports
The show transcript is available here.
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Monday Nov 14, 2022
S01E03: Indigenous Insights: Michael Hart
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Dr. Michael Hart is a citizen of Fisher River Cree Nation and the vice-provost (Indigenous engagement) at the University of Calgary.
He held a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Knowledges and Social Work through the University of Manitoba from 2012 to 2018. Dr. Hart also led the development of the Master of Social Work in Indigenous Knowledges program at the University of Manitoba and was the inaugural director for the program.
He was the founder of the Aboriginal Social Workers’ Society and a board member for 17 years since its launch in 2001. His work has spanned Canada, including Manitoba, Quebec and Yukon, and includes many internationally based projects and events in such places as the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Norway. These projects include being the Editor of the Journal of Indigenous Social Development since 2015.
Journal Article: Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge, and Research: The Development of an Indigenous Research Paradigm
The show transcript is available here.
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