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The current mission of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Research Office is to enhance the tribal research infrastructure by continuing to build the research review capacity, education through community engagement, and exercising tribal sovereignty through research data management.
The current mission of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Research Office is to enhance the tribal research infrastructure by continuing to build the research review capacity, education through community engagement, and exercising tribal sovereignty through research data management.
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Research Office Current Research Projects Listed below are abstracts of the studies that are either ongoing or are recently completed. To learn more about the study, feel free to contact the Research Office for more information.
Kim TallBear (she/her) is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, a Dakota nation in present-day South Dakota. She is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
Oyate is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Brandon Jackson and Emil Benjamin. The film follows Indigenous activists and politicians as they shed light on the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Nation by reviewing research proposals and granting permission to researchers to conduct research on the Lake Traverse Reservation (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Research Office n.d.-a).
This required repeated visits to each of Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate’s seven districts to meet with the tribal membership and provide education on the importance of research projects, research oversight, and data sovereignty.
