Resilience has gained traction in social science as a framework for a community's response to environmental, social, and political disturbances, the contours of which are not well understood in Indige

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Unsettling Resilience: Colonial Ecological Violence, Indigenous Futurisms, and the Restoration of the Elwha River* (2020) · doi

  Resilience has gained traction in social science as a framework for a community's response to environmental, social, and political disturbances, the contours of which are not well understood in Indigenous contexts.

  Keywords: social resilience gained traction science framework community response environmental political disturbances contours well understood indigenous
• As It Is Above, So It Is Below: Repositioning Indigenous Knowledge Systems within Ecosocial Work (2025) · doi

  While these threats to human life and planetary well-being are well documented, little is known about the divergence of Indigenous epistemology in ecosocial work and how cultural strategies can enhance recovery and resilience building with community.

  Keywords: well threats human life planetary documented little known divergence indigenous epistemology ecosocial cultural strategies enhance
• The importance of community support for women in a Gulf Coast Indigenous tribe (2022) · doi

  Originality/value –: This paper centers Indigenous women's resilience, approaches the health and well-being of Indigenous tribes holistically and helps to fill an important gap in literature describing informal adoption (outside the legal system) in state-recognized Indigenous communities.

  Keywords: indigenous originality value centers women resilience approaches health well tribes holistically helps fill important literature