Conclusion: Lessons About Indigenous Evaluation

This last chapter draws together the key lessons from chapter authors for strengthening Indigenous evaluation (IE). These lessons are about evaluators acknowledging Indigenous sovereignty and building genuine relationships with Indigenous peoples. They are about the development of mutual respect between evaluators and Indigenous peoples and evaluators’ commitment to evaluation collaborations in Indigenous contexts, including the commitment to sharing knowledge and strengthening Indigenous evaluation capacity. From this foundation, evaluators might then represent Indigenous peoples well and produce evaluations that serve a larger decolonization agenda that is essential for the sustainability, resilience, vitality, and very existence of Indigenous peoples.