Indigenous Insights: An Evaluation Podcast

S1E08: Indigenous Insights: Terrellyn Fearn

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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S1E07: Indigenous Insights: Nicky Bowman

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
 
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S1E06: Indigenous Insights: JoLee Sasakamoose

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  
 
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S1E05: Indigenous Insights:Paula Morelli & Peter Mataira

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)

S1E04: Indigenous Insights: Tammy Mudge

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
 
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S01E03: Indigenous Insights: Michael Hart

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 
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S01E02: Indigenous Insights: Larry Bremner

Larry Bremner, President and Partner at Proactive Information Services, established in 1984 to provide social research services to the not for profit and public sectors. 
Resource connected to the episode:
Recently Larry Bremner became the Co-Editor for the new section of the Canadian Journal of Program, Evaluation: Roots and Relations. The purpose of Roots and Relations (RR) is to honour our lineage, grow our kinship, and sustain our intergenerational legacies of Indigenous wisdom and practices in and through evaluation. R&R will work to sacredly hold traditional knowledge, celebrate and make visible culture and language utilization, protect and assert sovereignty, provide space for Indigenous voices and celebrate Indigenous wisdom and innovations in and through the lens of evaluation.
Journal Article: Creating new stories: The Role of Evaluation in Truth and Reconciliation 
 
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S01E01: Indigenous Insights: Making Introductions

In this first episode, Gladys introduces herself, her journey into the work of Indigenous evaluation, and what you can expect this season.
 
Resources from this episode
Na-gah mo Waasbishkizi Ojijaak Bimise Keetwaatino: Singing White Crane Flying North Gathering A Bundle for Indigenous Evaluation 
 
Winnipeg Boldness Project - https://www.winnipegboldness.ca/ 
 
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