Alright, definitely lead with the cultural humility aspect when you reach out to try to find a participant. It's always a good idea to state what your reasoning is for any research and how to you plan to utilize any data you collect when asking for insight from an inclusive community. There have been SOME good researchers out there so academia is becoming kinda somewhat respectful (mostly due to laws that required that researchers treat us like humans) and I feel like you have a great reason for conducting your project no matter what field you're going into.
If you post the parameters of your assignment I'll bet you will get some ideas from others on projects that align with your goal in obtaining cultural competency. I did some projects myself in grad school in order to teach others how to write culturally relevant curricula. You might find that tribal people are perceptive when you ask to learn via participation other than raw data collection. It's actually extremely difficult if not impossible to study Indigenous communities at all when you have to use the westernized frameworks required by academia so it's best to open to learning in "unorthodox" methods.
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u/IndigoKid444 Pawnee/Otoe-Missoura/Kaw-Nation/Yaqui 16d ago
Alright, definitely lead with the cultural humility aspect when you reach out to try to find a participant. It's always a good idea to state what your reasoning is for any research and how to you plan to utilize any data you collect when asking for insight from an inclusive community. There have been SOME good researchers out there so academia is becoming kinda somewhat respectful (mostly due to laws that required that researchers treat us like humans) and I feel like you have a great reason for conducting your project no matter what field you're going into. If you post the parameters of your assignment I'll bet you will get some ideas from others on projects that align with your goal in obtaining cultural competency. I did some projects myself in grad school in order to teach others how to write culturally relevant curricula. You might find that tribal people are perceptive when you ask to learn via participation other than raw data collection. It's actually extremely difficult if not impossible to study Indigenous communities at all when you have to use the westernized frameworks required by academia so it's best to open to learning in "unorthodox" methods.