Researchers sometimes extract Indigenous knowledge and never return it to its source.

Evidence

And Hazel would tell about the time she was called out to deliver a baby in a snowstorm, or how people would come to her door for healing herbs. She said how some other lady professor had once come with a tape recorder to talk to her and was going to put her in a book, on account of all the old ways she knew. But the professor had never come back and Hazel had never seen the book. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 251

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: This is a perfect concrete case for the general critique in my polyad reading around extractive research and missing reciprocity.
• SEED: The vanished tape-recorder professor is a precise model of one-way knowledge extraction — worth an essay or case study in research ethics.
• XREF: Connects directly to chapter 10 of this same book on how Indigenous scholars’ knowledge gets used on terms that demean them. — connects to: Ecojustice educators must honor indigenous knowledges without appropriating or speaking for them — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1568; Colonial archives should be treated as ethnographic sites not extraction sources

Broader Connections

• Ecojustice educators must honor indigenous knowledges without appropriating or speaking for them #responds-to (0.82) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1568
• Colonial archives should be treated as ethnographic sites not extraction sources #expands (0.78)