“WAIT A SECOND: WHO ARE YOU ANYWAYS?” THE INSIDER/OUTSIDER DEBATE AND AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES by Sophia Thraya https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw ROBERT ALEXANDER INNES en-us 2025-04-03 21:15:26 UTC 2025-04-04 00:12:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/png/1f587.png Both insider and outsider. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395159779 2025-04-04 00:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395159779 https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395159998 2025-04-04 00:04:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395159998 In Treaty 7 I am Indigenous but not from a Treaty 7 First Nation so I am kind of insider and outsider in Indigenous work here. A relative! https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395160080 2025-04-04 00:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395160080 Outsider https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395160296 2025-04-04 00:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395160296 This view is way more in line with Indigenous community ways of doing things. It is in opposition to the notion of scientific objectivity. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395160800 2025-04-04 00:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395160800 A foot in both worlds - insider & outsider. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395161005 2025-04-04 00:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395161005 I think this is where my mind is turning more and more in my learning journey - distance creates a false sense of security in a way, letting us think that we can understand if we separate ourselves from our work, relationships within that work, etc. but really it just disconnects us. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395161046 2025-04-04 00:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395161046 Both an insider and outsider when I think of the research I want to do. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395162306 2025-04-04 00:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395162306 I am somewhere inbetween most often. An ally. but can never embody or experience the (his)tory or generational trauma. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395162755 2025-04-04 00:06:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395162755 https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395162798 2025-04-04 00:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395162798 I am not sure if we can change the meaning of the established term, but we can refocus to something else. Maybe relationship and enacting on responsibilities should be regarded more important in research than validity. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395163143 2025-04-04 00:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395163143 Both an insider and outsider. I am looking at the education system differently, which sometimes makes me feel like I am becoming even more of an outsider to some of my co-workers. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395163650 2025-04-04 00:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395163650 Risk of causing harm if we see ourselves as distanced from the communities we are working with: what is at stake then? https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164088 2025-04-04 00:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164088 objectivity is a western trick that helps us distance ourselves from our responsibilities. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164542 2025-04-04 00:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164542 When I think about my place in the queer community, I feel an insider and outsider. I am queer, but still placing my roots and building relationships in queer community and therefore I sometimes feel like I don't belong. It's a tricky place to navigate, being both insider and outsider. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164560 2025-04-04 00:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164560 I reflect on who my research is serving because I am accountable to multiple communities and because my positionality shapes my questions and perspectives. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164848 2025-04-04 00:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164848 Validity and objectivity is a myth! Attending to relationality will strengthen research because the perspectives and positions of all folks participating in the work will be acknowledged. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164919 2025-04-04 00:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395164919 these roles change the way I show up as a witness or as an invited participant. My role is to listen and learn and walk alongside supporting relationship and respect. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395165148 2025-04-04 00:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395165148 https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395165371 2025-04-04 00:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395165371 As an insider, I have a responsibility to make sure that my research brings benefit to my community, but also linking to the Eve Tuck reading today, I have to also make sure that I am not picturing my community in a deficit way. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166092 2025-04-04 00:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166092 I feel my responsibility is to build stronger community and to strengthen trusting and reciprocal relationships so that I can engage with my community in a respectful way. Both as a community member but also future researcher within that community. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166097 2025-04-04 00:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166097 The more you know, the more you see. I am learning something new every day, which is empowering and daunting at the same time. I constantly have ideas flowing through my mind. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166494 2025-04-04 00:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166494 objectivity and validity are so deeply rooted in colonial structures and measures that I try to experience learning/research as always related to or relational https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166723 2025-04-04 00:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166723 https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166780 2025-04-04 00:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395166780 There are so many communities within my communities that I can be an insider and outsider at the same time https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395167377 2025-04-04 00:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395167377 https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395168308 2025-04-04 00:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395168308 yes, it community mostly influence my thoughts https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395168546 2025-04-04 00:11:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395168546 Purple sheep https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395168770 2025-04-04 00:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395168770 I see myself somewhere in-between. I was born and raised in an Indigenous Akan community. Both my parents are natives of the community. I am conscious of the community's culture and therefore consider myself an insider. However, due to the kind of education I receive from my long studies in school, I sometimes unconsciously carry certain beliefs and ideas that are in contravention with my community ones. https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395169829 2025-04-04 00:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sophiathraya/y7x56cfuri02ozqw/wish/3395169829