Kathleen Absolon King

Wilfrid Laurier University | WLU · Faculty of Social Work

This article describes an Indigenist research project where I gathered stories from my mother who went to the St. Johns Anglican Residential School. The research project was a personal, close to home project that took place from 2015 to 2017. This article articulates a personal, layered, wholistic and seasonally governed Indigenist methodology. It...

With the intention of generating critical discussion, in this paper the authors examine the complexities of doing decolonizing research within colonial institutions. Drawing on their experiences as co-investigators on a large scale partnership grant involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners doing community-based research in Indigenous commun...

This article contextualizes history and current realities of colonization in order to put into accurate context what we are trying to reconcile from. The section following history is informed by a recent presentation Akiesha offered to a group of non-Indigenous learners in the field of Social Work on reconciliation; it was from this experience that...

This paper begins with a poem and is inclusive of my voice as Anishinaabekwe (Ojibway woman) and is authored from my spirit, heart, mind and body. The idea of social inclusion and Indigenous peoples leave more to the imagination and vision than what is the reality and actuality in Canada. This article begins with my location followed with skepticis...

Indigenous methodologies have been silenced and obscured by the Western scientific means of knowledge production. In a challenge to this colonist rejection of Indigenous knowledge, Anishinaabe researcher Kathy Absolon examines the academic work of eleven Indigenous scholars who utilize Indigenous world views in their search for knowing. Through an...

In this article, the author, establishes a knowledge set for Indigenous social work practice based on Indigenous wholistic theory. An overall framework using the circle is proposed and introduced followed by a more detailed and elaborated illustration using the four directions. The article identifies the need to articulate Indigenous wholistic theo...