What is Indigenous Studies?

Abstract

This editorial addresses the discipline of Indigenous studies and the scholarship that has shaped our current understandings. For the journal’s inaugural edition, a grounding of the various theoretical frameworks and methodologies undertaken by scholars working in Indigenous communities is
highlighted along with a sharing of the canon which roots Indigenous Studies. The piece, as well as the journal, celebrates the multiple ways of knowing and being while adhering to the call of the discipline to deconstruct, interrogate, expose, and create knowledge.