Trust Settlement Agreement Practices in First Nation Communities

Abstract

In this book chapter, I focus on the epistemological, ontological and axiological practice traditions that help to reveal the taken-for-granted assumptions about the management of trust funds in First Nation communities. Informing this chapter is a qualitative research study involving 11 First Nation community members in Canada who were interviewed. Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing and the theory of practice architectures are used to identify the cultural discursive, material-economic and social-political arrangements that enable and/or constrain practice. The findings reveal that Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing collide adversely with trust account decision making due to the duties and obligations guiding trust settlement agreements. The ways in which trust account practices can be transformed to ensure greater alignment with Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing are outlined.

Citation

Blue, L.E. (2023), "Trust Settlement Agreement Practices in First Nation Communities", Researching Practices Across and Within Diverse Educational Sites: Onto-epistemological Considerations, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 113-140. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-871-520231006