One Story of a Spiritual Research Journey
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v33i1.196513Résumé
This article relates the story of a spiritual research journey that was both personal andacademic. What began as a personal search for healing led to the completion of a dissertation. Two distinct forms of learning were integral to the pursuit of this spiritualresearch journey: traditional community-based experiential learning under the guidance of a gifted Elder, combined with the academic pursuit of the knowledge related toIndigenous research and scholarship. In this article, I address the ontological and epistemological nature of spirit in Indigenous research, and how, in the process of conducting my research, I maintained my connection to spirit through the use of PlainsCree protocol and methods of inquiry.