About the workshop

The Messy, Mundane, Tensions and Uncertainty of Research
 
In this session, Michaela McGuire will discuss the methodological framework that guides her Ph.D. research. This adapted methodological framework includes decolonization, resurgence, grounded normativity (see: Coulthard, 2014; & Simpson, 2017), and Haida values. She will reflect on the tensions and uncertainty she has grappled with in conducting research in her home community, navigating the dualities of western and Nation-based/community research, and the impacts of cognitive imperialism and imposter syndrome.
 

Michaela's talk is part of Indigenous Research Methods in Action, a series that showcases SFU researchers who engage in Indigenous Research Methods. 

 About the speaker

Michaela McGuire (Jaad Gudgihljiwah) is a current PhD Student and sessional instructor in SFU’s School of Criminology. Michaela’s ancestry is Haida, Ojibwe, Irish, and British. Her research interests include Haida justice, decolonization, and resurgence, Haida identity and belonging, racism against Indigenous peoples, self-determination and self-governance, Indigenous women, and corrections. She is currently living, working, and writing from her home in HIG̲aagilda (Skidegate), Haida Gwaii.

Land acknowledgement

Elder Marie Hooper, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem First Nation)

Marie Hooper is an elder from Kwikwetlem First Nation. Recently she has moved onto the nations reserve, so she can connect better with her Indigenous culture. This has, and will keep her connected with her culture. She keeps her knowledge of the history of the nation and its families. This is passed down from her ancestors, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins and mother who is 96 years old and all of whom have lived on the reserve lands and territories.

Marie who was born in the UK, immigrated to Vancouver, B.C. in 1967. Her background is Coast Salish, English, Scottish and Portuguese.

Marie has studied at B.C. Institute of Technology and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her qualifications include Indigenous Environmental Archeology, Ecologic Engineering, and Guardian of the Indigenous lands and territories.  

Marie is a mother of four and grandmother of nine. Her passion is to bring residential awareness into the school system, or wherever she can bring up the subject asking individuals, ‘What do you know about residential schools?’. Only learning about residential schools five years ago, and bringing awareness, help Marie process the trauma her family and others have endured.