Indigenous data, indigenous methodologies and indigenous data sovereignty

Indigenous Peoples are, and have always been, highly numerate in how they understand their worlds.

“Though “quantitative avoidance can be linked to Indigenous Peoples' longstanding (and largely justified) suspicions around research using positivist methodologies,” it is important to note that “Indigenous [P]eoples are, and have always been, highly numerate in how we understand our worlds” (Walter & Suina, 2019, p. 233).”

Qualitative methods have dominated the literature on Indigenous research methods.

“Though qualitative methods are often an appropriate Indigenous methodology and have dominated the literature on Indigenous research methods, they are not the only methods available for health research.”

Indigenous research methodologies have largely been focused on qualitative approaches.

“As such, Indigenous research methodologies have largely been focused on qualitative approaches (Walter & Suina, 2019), which can be defined as:”

Deficit-based epidemiology has traditionally shown Indigenous Peoples and communities through a lens of disparity, deprivation, disadvantage, dysfunction, and difference.

“This approach is in distinct contrast to deficit-based epidemiology that has traditionally shown Indigenous Peoples and communities through a lens of “disparity, deprivation, disadvantage, dysfunction, and difference””

These practices remain exceptions under conditions of bandwidth scarcity, compute inequality, and exclusion from digital policy regimes.

“Yet these practices remain exceptions under conditions of bandwidth scarcity, compute inequality, and exclusion from digital policy regimes (Walter & Suina, 2019).”