Here's a life hack for 'indigenous' social science scholars looking to make an original contribution to the knowledge base in the 21st century through a decolonial or endogenous lens.

Mini-thread:

Pick a typical human practice or custom—the more quintessentially and obviously human the better—then construct an academic argument saying either:

1. We do that, too. But we have our own way of thinking about it; here is the data on how (aka supposed new knowledge) and over here is why I thought to collect it and your empire state of mind didn't. Yours is not the only way, wethu.

Or...

2. We do that, too, and the only reason that fact surprises you is that you didn't think us human. Here's why everything you've been taught on what being human looks like isn't all there is to it.

[Btw... this won't be new knowledge. To you.]

***Bonus***
Pick an authoritative text on an 'indigenous' practice/custom by a 20th-century liberal white scholar, ask your kin using non-hierarchical methods why they do it, then construct an argument on why the liberal white scholar's wrong. He's always wrong; it's always a he.