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Discuss the challenges of 12 ways to be researched (colonized), why an Indigenous peoples's project is important, and why land-based and Indigenous languages would transform the agenda for Indigenous social work research methodologies.
1. Having your genealogy and identity (cell-lines) stolen, patented, copied.
2. Having the umbilical cord blood of aborted babies 'farmed'
3. Having your cultural institutions and their rituals patented either by a non-Indigenous person or by another Indigenous individual.
4. Scientific and political reconstruction of a previously extinct Indigenous people.
5. Dying and then coming back to life as a flock of sheep or variety of tomatoes.
6. Commodifying Indigenous spirituality
7. Creating virtual culture as authentic culture.
8. Feeding consumption, tuberculosis of the marketplace.
9. Creating sovereign reservations for the elite.
10. Denial of global citizenship.
11. Exercising terror in the twenty-first century.
12. Let them eat cake