Trusting and Discomfort: A Perspective on Collaborating in Decolonizing Participatory Research

This article presents my deliberations on the challenges of issues of trusting and discomfort in decolonizing research, and in particular where non-Indigenous researchers work in partnership with Indigenous scholars and/or Indigenous communities. It draws on the epistemological and methodological decolonizing process of The Tipuna Project as a significant and thoughtful means of conducting decolonizing research that has transformative, reparative intent and protective practice at its core. The piece speaks to debates about decolonizing research and Indigenous methodologies that have gained a foothold of attention in the academy.