The guidelines for authors (and for reviewers) to the edition of the Canadian Journal of Native Education that is edited by the Indigenous Peoples Education Program at the University of Alberta states, "although all submissions will be considered, preference will be given to articles that are written from within an Indigenous paradigm." Understanding some guidelines and principles that underlie an Indigenist paradigm will help as academics, graduate students, researchers and authors write from that base. We have invited Shawn Wilson, Cree scholar and author of Research is aCeremony (in press) to answer our editorial question.