Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231193594
Suliasi Vunibola, Regina Scheyvens
This article aims to examine crucial elements that provide a platform for the success of Indigenous businesses based on customary land, drawing on case studies from Fiji. A qualitative, ethnographic, three case study approach was conducted, and talanoa (discussion or talking together in groups or between two people) method was used to collect data guided by the Vanua Research Framework. Four significant themes unfolded from the study in terms of essential strategies for the success of the businesses on customary land: following protocols for safe cultural affiliation of the business; practices of people working collectively; making socio-cultural contributions to the community and contributing to employee well-being. The research implies that Indigenous businesses on customary land tend to define success from a cultural viewpoint that differs from how business success is conventionally defined.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231195069
Rachael Glassey, Boyd Swinburn, Raun Makirere Haerewa, P. McKelvie-Sebileau, Brittany Chote, David Tipene-Leach
This study explores how a purposively selected sample of mainstream primary schools in regional New Zealand incorporate mātauranga Māori (traditional Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand) knowledge) into school life to support successful learning. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with five principals of low advantage schools with high Māori student populations identified six themes focused on creating a curriculum built around Te Ao Māori (Māori worldview). They were mainstream curriculum not fit for purpose for Māori learners, blending of mātauranga Māori and western knowledge, mātauranga Māori as learning and educational experiences, mātauranga ā-iwi (local Māori knowledge) and achievement fit for tamariki (children). Mātauranga Māori is incorporated into these schools’ environment to support learning, but the mainstream curriculum can be a challenge for schools wishing to promote Māori ways of being. Some schools, however, supported a He Awa Whiria (braided rivers) approach to education, the interweaving of both western practices and mātauranga Māori.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231193861
Andre McLachlan (Ngāti Apa, Muaūpoko), Suzanne Pitama (Ngāti Kahungunu), Simon J Adamson
In the field of mental health and addictions, there is a lack of research that acknowledges or considers Indigenous needs, preferences, and approaches to the design, development and maintenance of collaborative health and social initiatives in rural communities. This study presents a Kaupapa Māori (Indigenous Māori research approach) qualitative case study in a small rural community. The study focused on three groups involved within service collaboration. These included 10 individuals who were identified as Indigenous community leaders; 10 individuals experiencing substance use and related problems; 12 family members; and two focus groups involving 21 health and social service practitioners working within this community. The study findings present a dynamic whānau (families) and rural community-centred model of collaboration. This model reflects a continuum of collaboration that incorporates service users, their whānau, and culture as core components. The key barriers and enablers to collaboration across the continuum are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231194585
Javier Mignone, Beda Suárez Aguilar, Aynslie Hinds, Yercine Duarte, Dorian Ospina, John Harold Gómez Vargas
Anas Wayuu is an Indigenous-led non-profit health insurance organization in Colombia. It provides health care coverage to approximately 220,000 people, mostly Indigenous Wayuu, the largest Indigenous population in Columbia, living in La Guajira, the northeast region of the country, and in neighboring Venezuela. Anas Wayuu offers several intercultural health initiatives, among them the inclusion of bilingual guides for Wayuu families. The objective of the study was to describe the use of Anas Wayuu’s bilingual guides and determine whether use was associated with access and quality of care. A 34-item survey was conducted in 2020 to 2021 with a final sample of 2,113 Anas Wayuu enrollees and non-enrollees. Study findings demonstrated the relevance of bilingual guides programming. They suggested that bilingual guides improved individual’s capabilities to navigate the health care system, increased access to care, and increased their experience of quality of care. The findings strengthen the case for Indigenous self-governance over health care.
Anas Wayuu是哥伦比亚土著居民领导的非营利健康保险组织。它为大约22万人提供医疗保健服务，其中大多数是居住在哥伦比亚东北部拉瓜希拉地区和邻国委内瑞拉的土著瓦尤人，他们是哥伦比亚最大的土著人口。Anas Wayuu提供了若干跨文化卫生倡议，其中包括为Wayuu家庭提供双语指南。本研究的目的是描述Anas Wayuu双语指南的使用情况，并确定使用是否与护理的可及性和质量有关。2020年至2021年进行了一项34项调查，最终样本为2113名阿纳斯瓦尤人登记和非登记。研究结果证明了双语导游节目的相关性。他们认为，双语指南提高了个人在卫生保健系统中导航的能力，增加了获得护理的机会，并增加了他们对护理质量的体验。调查结果加强了土著居民在保健方面实行自治的理由。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231194205
Mohseen Riaz Ud Dean
Indigenous knowledge systems play pivotal roles in the lives of Indigenous communities. This study utilises ethnographic methods of talanoa (Pacific method of informal dialogue), memory reconstruction with village elders, household surveys, focused group discussions, and participant observation to draw on the unique and unexplored traditional salt-crafting knowledge and cultural assets such as the māqa (the site holding historical and cultural significance for salt crafting), matoji (well), mahima (salt), dōgō (mangrove) used in the salt-crafting process by the Indigenous community of the Vusama Village, Nadroga-Navosa Province, Viti Levu, Fiji. The study endeavours to examine how such Indigenous knowledge systems and cultural assets can help increase social cohesion, empower women, youth, and children, and stimulate societal responsibility for ecological and community well-being, including the role they can play for informing interventions that can contribute towards environment sustainability and climate resilience for Indigenous communities such as Vusama.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1177/11771801231194650
Leda Sivak, Seth Westhead, Graham Gee, Michael Wright, Alan Rosen, Stephen Atkinson, Emmalene Richards, Jenna Richards, Harold Dare, Ngiare Brown, Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Michael Walsh, Natasha J Howard, Alex Brown
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages can be seen as an integral aspect of cultural health. While colonisation has had devastating effects upon Indigenous languages, communities are increasingly reclaiming their languages, as a means to cultural preservation, community wellbeing and healing. Currently, there are no tools that specifically measure the potential positive impacts of language revival on the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples. This article brings together two broad constructs, social and emotional wellbeing and language reclamation, and describes an approach to developing a survey instrument to measure the relationship between Indigenous languages and wellbeing. With an emphasis on decolonising approaches to research, it steps out the key activities undertaken to develop the Indigenous Language and Wellbeing Survey. This article highlights the importance of addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research priorities. It also shows how qualitative material can guide the development of a quantitative survey in mixed-methods research.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-29DOI: 10.1177/11771801231193169
Peter Smith, Kylie Rice, N. Schutte, K. Usher
The spirituality of Indigenous Australians is described in this study, showing its distinctness from mainstream religion and its importance for social and emotional wellbeing. Connection and identity in the literature are defining elements in the spirituality of Indigenous people, and this study set out to understand how connections contribute to meaning and healing. Guided by a semi-structured interview, Indigenous spirituality was explored in terms of both meaning and importance. Four primary themes emerged from the interview data which described the importance of connection: to ancestors, family, country, and belief in God. There were also two sub-themes: nature and interior reality. Although spirituality was centred around these primary themes, for many Indigenous Australians, there has been an amalgamation of traditional beliefs with mainstream religion that reflects the history of colonialism. Participants emphasised the importance for mental health practitioners to acknowledge clients’ spirituality and to consider its importance within the therapeutic setting.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1177/11771801231191597
Apostolos Tsiouvalas, Cecilia Silva Campos
accomplished” (p. 275). They offer eight points for further reflection and action, towards the goals of generating both “greater appreciation of Māori scholars” and “a deeply sophisticated and decolonised twenty-first century science and education sector” (p. 276). Despite all the mamae (pain), loneliness and racism recalled in these chapters, the editors remain optimistic about the next generation. They return us to the notion of responsibility or duty: “forging spaces within the academy and research sector, throwing open doors, and disrupting the assumed norms of disciplines and institutional structures by being present, loud, and heard, are actions we are obliged to perform” (p. 279). Importantly, this work “cannot and should not be the work of Māori scholars alone” (p. 279). Pākehā and other tangata Tiriti—non-Māori living in New Zealand pursuant to the Treaty of Waitangi—must step up and heed these calls for recognition and action. The “resistant knowledge projects” detailed in this book are compelling, and their alternative visions for the future offer connection, hope, and strength through standing on the shoulders of one’s ancestors (p. 55). A book like this deserves not a mere review, but what philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò calls constructive politics, which, here, might mean a national, sector-wide commitment to anti-racist politics and education (Táíwò, 2022). Beyond changing the curriculum and decolonising our citation politics, we need to change the disciplines themselves, we need—in Táíwò’s words—to change the very people in the room where decisions are made.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.1177/11771801231189842
S. Burke
This study describes insights shared by Indigenous Elders in British Columbia, Canada, who were asked about kinship care practices involving Indigenous children. It arises from a community-guided research study that set out to explore how child welfare organizations that work with Indigenous children and families can develop kinship care practices that honor traditional Indigenous values, beliefs, and practices around kinship care. In-person interviews took place with eight Elders in the fall of 2022. Thematic analysis revealed three themes: (a) kinship care as a traditional practice, (b) kinship care and current child welfare systems, and (c) creating kinship care practices that uphold traditional Indigenous values, beliefs, and practices. This article discusses these themes and their sub-themes and offers suggestions for child welfare organizations, policy-makers, and practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1177/11771801231187551
Caroline L. Tait, Michael A. J. Moser, V. McKinney, J. Kappel, Robert Henry
The First Nations and Métis Organ Donation and Transplantation Network (the Network) facilitates Indigenous-driven, culturally-informed, and safe research, policies, education, and advocacy regarding organ donation and transplantation through the building of collective intelligence among Indigenous peoples in Canada. The Network’s think tank comprises Indigenous Elders, thought leaders, and persons with lived experiences of organ donation—living donors and organ recipients—as well as healthcare professionals, outreach workers, and university-based researchers. The Network responds to the failure of governmental institutions to reduce health disparities facing Indigenous peoples, and the dispersal of Indigenous collective intelligence caused by changing federal or provincial and territorial leadership and priorities. The collective intelligence of Indigenous peoples regarding end-stage organ failure and organ donation and transplantation is central to improving patient experiences, increasing the number of Indigenous organ donors and recipients, and finding pathways for advancing healthcare reforms that prevent and treat end-stage organ failure.
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