Heeding the Voice of Mishtameku Collaborative Ethics and the Evaluation of Research in Aboriginal Contexts Reflection on A Field Experience.

One of the main issues facing the evaluation of research--as well as collaborative ethics--involves the negotiation of power. Heeding the Voice of Mishtameku describes our field experience, which consisted of implementing shared collaborative ethics in a team we formed to evaluate certain research activities. In this context, our team also experimented with a collaborative evaluation process in Innu and Atikamekw territory. This field experience story is complemented by our reflection on the manner in which some of the issues and challenges specific to collaborative ethics in the evaluation of research in Aboriginal contexts may be identified. This experience allowed us to gain more insight into the role of evaluation in collaborative ethics and the potential of a collaboration agreement as a research evaluation tool. Through an approach aimed at creating conditions favourable to the realization of a multi-voice evaluation process equitable to every actor, is it possible to rebalancing the scales of power? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]