This is a manifesto of the Umulliko Research Team which seeks to conduct research on Indigenous cultures in ways that places and keeps Indigenous voices at the center of the research in the process of advancing decolonization. The writers echo Smith (1999) when they point out that research is a Western construct and practice that retells the story of colonization and hegemony. This particular research team seeks to find ways to centralize the voices of those who have been silenced these many centuries.
Although this is a short manifesto, it is useful to research on place-based learning because it outlines some of the issues regarding research that has been done to date. Much of this research has been used to implement policy including educational ones, which have succeeded in further alienating Indigenous cultures.
References
Smith, L. (1999). Introduction. In Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous peoples. London: Zed Books, Ltd, 1-18.
The University of Newcastle, Australia. Indigenous research methodology. Retrieved from http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/umulliko/indigenousresearchmethodology/index.html