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Native health issues, specifically awareness of diabetes, their physical activity, and their mental health. However, this article is about researcher reflexivity and the problematics of certain kinds of research that
includes the dynamics of power. In this case, the setting was the North American Indigenous Games. Jacob herself is Indian and attended the games as both a participating athlete
and a researcher completing her Ph.D. studies. She was investigating the meanings of researcher subjectivity when working in a racialized setting. She writes about the challenges of attempting to gather
information exclusively from indigenous persons while trying to refuse to obtain the same information from Whites. She reveals the challenges and her own reactions to those challenges in conducting the
research data. The purpose of this article was to report her findings about researcher subjectivity. Jacob discovered there is an inherent power hierarchy even in a cross-cultural situation that
is dominated by one culture, in this case, the dominant culture was indigenous persons. However, Whites volunteered to help in the Games and were also visitors to the event. She
questions the degree of validity of data collected under these circumstances and suggests that the "knowledge research produces" may not be as valid as the researcher would conclude. She herself
discovered that trying to collect information exclusively from indigenous persons left her the object of suspicion as some indigenous folks thought she was collecting information for the government. On the
other hand, Whites tried to exercise power or supremacy becoming very upset because she initially would not allow them to complete the surveys. The many studies the author refers
to are all qualitative studies. As an example, Jacob cites Brackette Wiliams a Black woman, was reported she was treated differently in Black communities in the U.S. South as compared
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