Continuing the Evaluation Journey: Sharing the Lunaape Seven Directions Medicine Wheel (7DMW™) Model

As part of decades of Indigenous evaluation scholarship in the global North and South this article highlights how decolonized, culturally responsive, and Indigenous evaluation frameworks, theories, and methods can be developed and refined over time. Using a Lunaape Medicine Wheel framework, the author builds on the four directions and extends it to a Seven Directions Lunaape Medicine Wheel (7DMW™) model using traditional teachings and language, educational and career pathways development, and real-world applications. The article offers multiple examples of how the 7DMW framework has been used in contemporary ways to evaluate entrepreneurial business values, ethics, philosophy, and operations an has been applied to evaluation projects and initiatives. The article concludes with reflections on capacity building and strategies for bridging Indigenous and non-Indigenous contexts and evaluators. The reader should leave with professional, academic, and personal insights that should be considered for future evaluative thinking, professional development, equitable and sustainable resource allocation, policy, and practice at the program, organizational, systems, and nation-to-nation (First Nation and public government) levels.