Indigenous Statistics

Maggie Walter (PhD; FASSA) is Palawa and Distinguished Professor of Sociology (Emerita) at the University of Tasmania. Chris Andersen is Métis, from the parkland region of Saskatchewan. He is the dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Tahu Kukutai (Ngāti Tiipa, Ngāti Māhanga, Ngāti Kinohaku, Te Aupōuri) is Professor of Demography at Te Ngira Institute for Population Research, The University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. Chelsea Gabel is Métis from Rivers, Manitoba and a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. She is an Associate Professor in the Indigenous Studies Department and the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University.

1. Chapter 1 Introduction, 2. Chapter 2 A decade of data revolutions: Big data and Indigenous Data Sovereignty, 3. Chapter 3 The statistical field, writ Indigenous, 4. Chapter 4 Statistics and the neo-colonial alliance: ‘Seeing’ the indigene, 5. Chapter 5 Beyond colonial constructs: The promise of Indigenous statistics, 6. Chapter 6 Statistics, stigmatization and stereotyping: The importance of authentic, partnering and community-engagement to validate Indigenous statistical research, 7. Chapter 7 Métis population data in Canada: A conceptual case study, 8. Chapter 8 ‘Fixing’ the figures: Tribal data in the Aotearoa New Zealand 2018 Census, 9. Chapter 9 Doing Indigenous statistics in Australia: The racial burden of disregard