Abstract
As Indigenous academics from different places in the world (U.S/Canada and Aotearoa), we set out to center Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. As invited guest editors, we wanted to highlight the unique and important work that is being done in our communities by the people and for the people. Some Indigenous scholars choose not to participate in publishing as a way of disseminating knowledge. Western knowledge and methods of doing has steam rolled over Indigenous people and diminished our ways of doing and being. Western research and publishing standards can be caustic to Indigenous people and the ways they do their work that honors their own traditions and community norms. There has been great resistance to our thinking through our methodologies and worldviews.