Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168178
D. Findlay
This article considers the terms culture and healing, critiques perpetuation of colonizing perspectives in conventional trauma-informed mental health approaches, and introduces Gathering Our Medicine, an innovative community framework created by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish; Coast Salish Peoples Indigenous to the lands of Southern British Columbia, Canada) practitioner Denise Findlay in response to the need for decolonial approaches to mental health for Indigenous communities throughout British Columbia, Canada. The framework encourages re-imagining healing and mental health practices through values such as lateral kindness that draw from distinct traditional Indigenous philosophies, ontologies, and epistemologies. By revitalizing and centring distinctive traditional knowledges about actualization, transformation, and healing, the framework provides a role for allies that disrupts the impulse to deny culpability that Indigenous scholar Susan Dion calls the perfect stranger position. Findlay provides an alternative—the imperfect friend—drawing on kinship practices as effective indirect praxis for collective healing and well-being, transforming the distanced expert into engaged community member.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168174
Hector Vazquez-Cordoba (Totonac), Jesús Alberto Flores Martínez (Masewal)
Masewal (Indigenous people who live in the Huasteca region, Mexico) associate Chikomexochitl (seven flower or corn-child) to a ritual practice and also with the five stages of the development of corn, from seed until the harvest is completed. Just as corn grows, the five stages of the development of corn provides us with a framework to centre the importance of building relationships of trust that grow over time when doing research with Indigenous communities. First, we provide a description of the Huasteca region. We then engage in a critical discussion to challenge the dominant western positivist approach in research, which has historically served to undermine Indigenous perspectives as less valid forms of knowledge. Masewal people’s narratives give meaningful insight into the Masewal worldview and the importance of corn and the corn plant. Finally, we propose the use of Chikomexochitl as an Indigenous research methodology rooted in the Masewal worldview.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1177/11771801231169044
A. Paul, Robin Roth, Saw Paul Sein Twa
States have long used protected areas to consolidate control over Indigenous Peoples’ territories, undermining community-based governance and access to resources. Despite this history, Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly designating their own protected areas to defend ancestral territories and assert self-determination. This paper examines Indigenous conservation politics in the Salween Peace Park in Kawthoolei, an autonomous territory of the Karen (Sino-Tibetan language-speaking peoples living primarily in Burma and along the Thai-Burma border). Local villagers and the Karen National Union envision the park as a grassroots initiative for peace in an area that has suffered decades of armed conflict between the Burmese military and the Karen movement for self-determination. Using the Salween Peace Park as a case study, we engage Indigenous scholarship on politics of recognition, resurgence, and refusal. We explore intersections and tensions between these political strategies, highlighting ways that Indigenous protected areas mobilize different forms of power to advance self-determination.
长期以来，各国利用保护区巩固对土著人民领土的控制，破坏了以社区为基础的治理和对资源的获取。尽管有这样的历史，世界各地的土著人民越来越多地指定他们自己的保护区，以捍卫祖传的领土和主张自决。本文考察了位于卡图莱的萨尔温江和平公园的土著保护政治，该公园是克伦族(主要生活在缅甸和泰缅边境的汉藏语系)的自治领土。当地村民和克伦民族联盟(Karen National Union)将这座公园视为该地区的一项草根和平倡议。数十年来，缅甸军方和克伦民族自决运动一直在该地区发生武装冲突。以萨尔温江和平公园为例，我们将土著学者纳入承认、复兴和拒绝的政治研究。我们探讨了这些政治策略之间的交集和紧张关系，强调了土著保护区动员不同形式的力量来推进自决的方式。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168380
Matthew Wildcat, Daniel Voth
The following seeks to advance relational research methods by providing more specificity in how relationality is defined, and by engaging commonly held refrains on relational research. Responding to concerns about Indigenous relationality being pan-Indigenous, we suggest a three-part framework that defines Indigenous relationality. First, relationality as a defining aspect of global Indigeneity; second, relational understandings that emerge from specific Indigenous nations and third, relationality as manifest within inter-Indigenous connections. Building on our definitional work, we argue that three common refrains within relational research methods should be extended. First, researchers should be able to balance a slippage between the particular context of Indigenous nations and the general context of Indigenous relationality. Second, we have to do more than simply value relationships, and consider how we use relationality for critical thinking. Finally, ensuring accountability within Indigenous research requires us to revisit how we analyze the concept of community.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168140
Tara Erb, C. Loppie
This research represents an in-depth exploration of the lived experience, demands and risks of facilitating Indigenous cultural safety and the impact it has on the health and wellness of Indigenous cultural safety facilitators. Using Indigenous and qualitative methodologies, this study gathered data from 11 Indigenous cultural safety facilitators in the Vancouver Island and Vancouver regions through in-depth interviews. Issues around training, preparation, boundaries and capacity within Indigenous cultural safety spaces were examined, as well as the resistance, harm, violence, emotional taxation, hardships and burnout often experienced by Indigenous cultural safety facilitators. With a focus on how facilitating Indigenous cultural safety affects physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellness, as well as emphasizing the high risk of burnout, this research demonstrates that Indigenous cultural safety environments can be unsafe for Indigenous cultural safety facilitators and exposes a need to explore further how social and structural supports can better protect the health and wellness of Indigenous cultural safety facilitators.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167913
R. Quigg, Francis Kewene, K. Morgaine
The board game, The Last Straw!, is part of the Aotearoa (New Zealand) public health and medical curriculum at the University of Otago. An engaging and effective teaching tool about the social determinants of health, the game falls short by being silent about Indigenous experiences. A project is underway to adapt The Last Straw! for play following an Indigenous framework, kaupapa Māori (Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa) approach). The game board is being redesigned as Whāriki, a woven mat. The mat represents a metaphor for life as strands of thread are woven throughout the lifecourse, and the thread characteristics impact the strength and qualities of the mat. This brief commentary outlines the first stage of adapting this resource, illustrating decolonizing the public health and medical curriculum in a way that honours and embeds te ao Māori (the Māori worldview), making them visible and intentional.
棋盘游戏，最后一根稻草！，是奥塔哥大学Aotearoa（新西兰）公共卫生和医学课程的一部分。作为一种关于健康的社会决定因素的引人入胜且有效的教学工具，该游戏对土著人的经历保持沉默。一个改编《最后的稻草》的项目正在进行中！游戏遵循土著框架，kaupapa Māori（毛利人（Aotearoa的土著人）方法）。游戏板正在被重新设计为Whāriki，一种编织垫。编织垫代表着生命的隐喻，因为在整个生命过程中，线股被编织，线的特性影响着垫子的强度和质量。这篇简短的评论概述了改编这一资源的第一阶段，以一种尊重和嵌入te ao Māori（毛利人世界观）的方式，说明了公共卫生和医学课程的非殖民化，使其可见和有意。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167652
Jessica Tupou, Chevelle Ataera, Hannah Waddington
This mixed-methods study aimed to explore the experiences and goals of Māori parents and whānau (families) caring for young autistic children. Data were collected via a rōpū kōrero (focus group) and an online questionnaire, with a total of 33 parents and whānau participating in at least one phase of the study. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse rōpū kōrero data with findings used to inform the design of an online questionnaire. Questionnaire responses were summarised using descriptive statistics. Results indicate that experience and perceived helpfulness of supports varied across participants. Communication and values-based goals were a high priority for most participants, and most rated cultural goals as important. Findings highlight the value of considering parent and whānau voices, especially those from Indigenous communities.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167654
H. Dicks
This article explores existing research related to mixed-blood Indigenous individuals in an effort to reveal a more complete picture of social inequality that exists within and between the binary categorization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous within Canada. Tracing a line through past and present discriminatory assimilationist policies, this article reveals the pervasive challenges associated with living as a mixed-blood Indigenous person in this country. Marked by a perpetual struggle to gain recognition from both Indigenous and settler populations, individuals living within this marginal identity face a structure of inequality that is little explored in contemporary research literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167872
Sharon Louth, Veronica Bird, Joyce Bonner
This article reports on the outcomes of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community–led project which sought to build a pathway to reconciliation through formulating a localised community response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The research follows a phenomenological research design which collected qualitative data from lived experiences of the participants. Phenomenological analysis was conducted iteratively on the data where themes were identified as integral to achieve self-determination and reconciliation locally: respect, voice, truth, treaty and unity. Each theme comprised interconnected sub-themes where a Local Response to the Statement of Commitment was hewn from these results. This response will be used as a local charter to promote Memorandums of Understanding across the Fraser Coast region, Queensland, Australia, to improve life choices, control decision making and self-determination for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the region, enacting the vision of the Uluru Statement.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167881
Kathryn Riley, Amanda Froehlich Chow, Kathleen Wahpepah, M. L. Humbert, M. Brussoni, Natalie E. Houser, M. Erlandson
Growing philosophical and empirical evidence shows that physical literacy and risky play enriches movement opportunities, while also fostering increased physical activity, wholistic health, and wellness across the lifespan. However, physical literacy and risky play have typically been theorized and practiced from a western worldview. In response, Nature’s Way-Our Way is an initiative designed to ground physical literacy and risky play in Indigenous games, activities, cultural connections, and traditional teachings, as enacted in Early Childhood Education Centres across Saskatchewan, Canada. This article explores Nature’s Way-Our Way’s theoretical underpinnings of Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing), adopted to braid together the strengths of Indigenous Knowledges with western knowledge through practices of Indigenous métissage (land and story-based approaches to curriculum informed by relationality). Providing examples of culturally rooted resources, this article shows how the Nature’s Way-Our Way initiative supports Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty to foster increased physical activity, wholistic health, and wellness across the lifespan.
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