Un-Settling Indigenous Research–A ‘recipe’ for anti-colonial research with Indigenous communities

Dr. Deondre Smiles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). Dr. Smiles is of Ojibwe, Black, and settler descent, and is a citizen of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Smiles’ research interests center around critical Indigenous geographies, political ecology, and tribal cultural resource management/protection. Smiles currently serves as the Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, sits on the editorial board of the journal Native American and Indigenous Studies, and is a Trustee of the Leech Lake Tribal College.