New Infographic: Considerations For Indigenous Evaluation
September 2024
About the author: Kim Desjarlais is a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation and an Evaluation Assistant with Three Hive Consulting. She has a background in administrative and managerial roles across nonprofit and community organizations. She brings experience managing data, overseeing enriched programs, and supporting operational functions, with strengths in program evaluation, staff coordination, and system management to enhance organizational effectiveness.
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Eval Academy just released a new infographic, “Considerations for Indigenous Evaluation”!
Truth and Reconciliation Day / Orange Shirt Day is on September 30. This may inspire questions around ways evaluators can support Indigenous evaluation. This infographic provides some aspects to consider when planning an evaluation with Indigenous peoples.
Who’s it for?
This infographic is for anyone looking to learn more about Indigenous evaluation.
What’s the purpose?
This infographic provides some aspects to consider when designing a program evaluation with Indigenous people. Indigenous evaluation uses methodologies grounded in Indigenous knowledge, values, and cultural practices. Many Indigenous methodologies employ a ‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ approach, as discussed by Elder Albert Marshall, that applies both Western and Indigenous knowledge. At Eval Academy, we have an expanded definition of Indigenous evaluation in our dictionary.
Truth and Reconciliation Day / Orange Shirt Day is on September 30. This may inspire questions around ways evaluators can support Indigenous evaluation. This infographic provides some aspects to consider when planning an evaluation with Indigenous peoples.
What’s included?
A one-page, downloadable infographic as a PDF file.
Learn more: related articles and links
History:
Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s What We Have Learned: Principles of Truth and Reconciliation(2015).
University of Alberta’s Indigenous Canada course available on Coursera.
Indigenous people’s map available on the Native Land Digital website.
North American Residential/Indian Day School map available on the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation’s website.
Ethics and data ownership:
The Native Women’s Association of Canada’s Indigenous Data Sovereignty Toolkit (2026).
The First Nations Information Governance Centre’s Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP™).
National Aboriginal History Organization (NAHO)’s Principles of Ethical Métis Research (2011).
Indigenous Protocols:
Protocols for Engaging with Indigenous Peoples and Communities is available on the Downie & Wenjack Fund website to help guide schools and non-profits in work with Indigenous communities.
Indigenous research and evaluation methodologies and examples:
Indigenous Insights: An Evaluation Podcast is hosted by Dr. Gladys Rowe and is available on her website.
Dr. Janice Cindy Gaudet wrote about her research and Indigenous knowledge she used in keeoukaywin: The Visiting Way – Fostering an Indigenous Research Methodology (2019).
Robline Davey explored a few Indigenous research methodologies in Searching for Métis Research Methodologies: natoonikew poor ayshitotamun michif (2023).
Dr. Tiffany Dionne Prete wrote about her research and using Indigenous cultural teachings inBeadworking as an Indigenous Research Paradigm (2019).
Other resources:
Engaging Indigenous Partnerships Using Keeoukaywin, The Visiting Way.
Indigenous Visiting Bundle with templates to help in planning.