Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)
- Affiliation: Wilfrid Laurier University
Kathleen E. Absolon is Anishinaabekwe from Flying Post First Nation and teaches wholistic knowledges in the Aboriginal Field of Study, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Books by Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)
Kaandossiwin
How We Come to Know
Kathleen Absolon (Minogiizhigokwe)
Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonialist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe researcher Kathleen Absolon examines the academic work of fourteen Indigenous scholars who utilize Indigenous worldviews in their search for knowing. Through an examination not only of their work but also of their experience in producing that work, Kaandossiwin describes how Indigenous researchers re-theorize… (more information)