Walk Softly and Listen Carefully

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Walk Softly and Listen Carefully
The national Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center and Montana State University`s Center produced this resource with insights from researchers involved in research in Montana and other areas.
Tribal leaders have acknowledged that tribal research is a major tool in tribal sovereignty: research is useful in providing information and data on community policy and development programs, cross-community planning and community planning. Efforts to address issues as health disparities for American Indians and Alaska Natives have highly used partnership research approaches. The resource "Walk Softy and listen carefully" aims at strengthening partnership research approaches by providing an overview about how culture sovereignty matters in research with native communities. Tribes have embraced the use of research in trying to address issues like early childhood education, diabetes, cancer, water quality among other issues affecting the community. However, tribal leaders have raised concern about the real need to protect cultural information from unethical research practices. The concerns have been triggered by historical ethical violation of the data. Tribal nations are diverse with each nation having a unique research project and team. There have been researching partnerships that have provided benefits to native communities and making great contributions towards providing so...