Adopting an Indigenous framework is more aligned with Indigenous realities, knowledge, intellects, histories and experiences.
Indigenous methodology makes it explicit that the study will be viewed through a culturally-specific lens that privileges Indigenous realities by taking account of Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies [ 18].
Adopting an Indigenous framework identifies the limitation of Western paradigms to adequately portray Indigenous realities, knowledge, intellects, histories and experiences.
Although he did not share Arguedas's passion for indigenous reality, Vargas Llosa admired and respected the novelist for his contributions to Peruvian literature.
Because they tend to proceed from lived experiences and historical realities, indigenous notions of rights are hardly abstract.
In reality, indigenous governments are the most over-reporting level of government, because any community that receives funding under the Indian Act is required to produce about 100 reports every year, something that Minister Valcourt might know about his own department, if only he had read Anaya's report before responding to it in a press release.
Given this reality, indigenous and ethnic minority students are required to aim to achieve a high level of academic performance within the pathways used for future selection into medical or health professional programmes of study [ 12].
While many health care providers want to improve service delivery to Indigenous patients, the reality in most health settings is that demands for quality and organisational efficiency compete, so there is often little time or resources allocated to understanding the special needs of Indigenous people and the challenges of providing quality primary and follow-up care.
Moreover, the conventional translations are by no means reliable, and most of the names themselves are of somewhat recent origin, probably crystallized and rigidified by the exigencies of colonial administration more than by the realities of indigenous culture.
First, the view that TEK and science must be labeled as such, and kept distinct, misses the realities of indigenous environmental governance today.
"While the government is right to include and focus on the families of these women, I have fear that the realities of Indigenous sex workers, who continue to live in fear and who continue to experience violence as a result of criminalization of their lives in multiple ways, including the criminalization of sex work, will not be addressed".
