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The term ‘discovery’ can be explained as the power to discover community knowledge that is not already owned by the community. I was uncomfortable with this use of the term ‘discovery’, and discussed it with my community’s Elders and with other Indigenous communities in Bangladesh, Canada, and Norway.

One of the Elders from our Indigenous community in CHT Bangladesh responded to the term by stating, ‘I know from my ancestors that knowledge has been practiced in our Indigenous communities for many centuries; knowledge has been within us and within our land from long before I born. We cannot discover knowledge; rather, we learn from our land.’

Similarly, when I asked my mother, she told me, ‘Do not listen to ethnographic researchers. I learned from my ancestors. My ancestors learned from their ancestors that knowledge is here in our land; we just carry it from one generation to another. We cannot discover anything; we can only learn.’

The last part of this statement: ‘We cannot discover anything; we can only learn’ was significant for me in understanding the challenges in my ethnographic research training. Another Elder from a Dene First Nation community in Canada said, ‘Our knowledge comes from our ancestors. I learned from them. If I share our knowledge with you, you should not say that you discovered it. If you do so, it will be stealing.’

Another challenge I faced during my master’s research with one of the Indigenous communities in CHT was the participants’ fear of the Western form of ethnographic research.

One of the Elders explained why he feared ethnographic research, by saying, ‘Many ethnographic researchers have come to our Indigenous community and did ethnographic research but did not have any positive impact on our community.’

He explained further, ‘Researchers stayed in our house, lived with us, learned from us about what we do, how we do, and they wrote our stories as their discovery. It is stealing our knowledge.’

Another Elder suggested a means of overcoming this challenge by saying, ‘If your research cannot talk about how we are facing problems in our everyday lives, why should I engage with your research?’ He also said, ‘Research should be action-oriented so that it can contribute to us solving our issues. It should focus on our voice instead of only your academic priorities.’

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