FYS 120V: Global Folktales

Colonization and marginalization of Indigenous peoples means that information about them is often created by non-Indigenous people.

Consider:

• Who created the resource:

  • Is the writer Indigenous? Are they a part of the Indigenous community they're writing about?

  • What is the author's worldview?

• Why the resource was created:

  • Who benefits from the research? Indigenous communities? Individuals? Institutions? The general public?

• When the resource was created:

  • Is this an older resource? It may contain language and ideas that are considered harmful.

  • What is the historical context of this resource? What was its intended purpose at the time of its creation?

• How the resource was created:

  • Did the writer consult an Indigenous community?

  • What methods were used to gather the information?

  • Was the research made available to the Indigenous communities that participated in the study?

The above content is published under a CC-NC-SA 4.0 license. It was adapted from the University of Alberta Library under a CC-NC-SA 4.0 license.