Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i2.39009
S. Stewart
As a global population, Indigenous Peoples face multiple health barriers related to poverty, access to service, literacy weaknesses, racism and discrimination, language, geography, colonization, addictions and mental health, and the intergenerational trauma of colonial assaults and aggressions. To address these problems, and to attempt to answer the above question, the IJIH seeks to provide a voice in the academic publishing world to community-driven research and re- searchers who work, as much as possible, in western colonial academic systems, based in Indigenous paradigms.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i1.36713
Denica Dione Bleau, Melanie Lansall
The COVID-19 Pandemic has substantially affected Indigenous communities. Deterrence of physical and mental health within Indigenous communities has been prevalent through unjust social, environmental and economic factors, due to pre-existing health conditions, unsustainable and overcrowded housing, limited health care and mental health services, and inadequate access to clean drinking water (Independent Auditor’s Report, 2021). These factors have resulted in exacerbated mental health and trauma symptoms (Arriagada, et. al., 2020). Indigenous communities have needed to adapt methods of attaining mental health and medical services, in order to maintain personal and communal wellbeing. We offer a summary of the delivery of two programs: The Medicine Keeper Wellness Program and Creative Corner Program, which were conducted in Northern Central Interior and Southern Indigenous communities by Indigenous social workers, to continue individual and community wellness. These programs navigated the barriers presented as a result of COVID-19 and the restrictions therein, to accessing social work and therapeutic services.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i2.37131
Nicole Redvers, Mia Wilkinson, Sarah Larson, Kalisi ‘Ulu’ave
Objectives: Despite decades of continued commercial tobacco prevention and control efforts, smoking rates in Northern Plains American Indian (AI) communities within the United States continues to be remarkably high. We sought to take a microcosmic view of AI tobacco research in the Northern Plains region to identify the types of tobacco-related research that has been completed, and to critically examine whether the four areas of community importance outlined as best practice for tobacco programming in AI communities has been represented in the literature to date. Design: A systematic search of multiple databases was executed utilizing an established scoping review framework that was adapted to fit within an Indigenous worldview. A consequent title and abstract review of tobacco-related research published with AI Northern Plains communities was completed. Structured deductive content analysis was carried out on each article utilizing a matrix of analysis developed from existing literature on best practices in AI communities. Results: Of the 916 published studies identified, 50 met the inclusion criteria and were represented within five identified categorical themes: (1) commercial tobacco smoking as a risk factor, (2) commercial tobacco-related disease outcomes, (3) tobacco policy, (4) commercial tobacco smoking cessation, and (5) cultural or traditional tobacco use. The matrix analysis identified substantial variation in the number of studies carried out with community-identified best practices in place, including 22 of the 50 (44%) articles containing one or none of the four areas of importance noted as best practice. Conclusions: We identified a substantial lack of community and culturally informed tobacco-related research being carried out in the Northern Plains region. Community-based and culturally grounded efforts that consider colonization, historical trauma, and ACEs when planning research, funding mechanism, and health programming activities in the region are urgently needed to decrease commercial tobacco use and consequent health disparities.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v18i2.36754
S. Priest
Based on 40 years of living and travelling with indigenous populations around the world, the author shares the repeating patterns of common lessons learned about adventure and land-based healing.
基于40年来与世界各地土著居民的生活和旅行，作者分享了关于冒险和陆地治疗的共同经验教训的重复模式。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i1.36933
Chantelle Richmond, Veronica Reitmeier, Katie Big-Canoe, Erik Mandawa, R. Mohammed, Hallie Abrams
Among Indigenous People in Canada and around the world, the health impacts of COVID-19 have been measured largely through biological, social, and psychological impacts. Our study draws from a relational concept of health to examines two objectives: 1) how social distancing protocols have shaped Indigenous connections with self, family, wider community, and nature; and 2) to exploring what these changing relationships mean for perceptions of health. Carried out by an Indigenous team of scholars, community activists and students, this research draws from a decolonizing methodology and qualitative interviews (n=16) with Indigenous health and social care providers in urban and reserve settings. Our results illustrate a considerable decline in interpersonal connections, such as with family, community organizations, and larger social networks, as a result of social distancing. Among those already vulnerable, underlying health, social, and economic inequities have been exacerbated. While the health impacts of COVID-19 have been overwhelmingly negative, participants noted the importance of this time for self-reflection and reconnection of human-kind and with mother earth. This paper offers an alternative perspective to popularized views of Indigenous experiences of COVID-19 as they relate to vulnerability and resilience.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i1.36724
J. Sylliboy, N. Bird, Evan Butler, Kehisha Wilmot, Gage Perley
The Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance (W2SA), a regional Two-Spirit organization, administered an online survey in May of 2020 to identify priorities and concerns of Two-Spirit (2S) individuals and Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ people in Atlantic Canada during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The respondents (n=149) shared health concerns including deterioration(s) of mental health (56.32%) and described mental health supports (68.42%), health supports for Two-Spirit individuals (57.89%), healing gatherings (46.05%) and trans-specific supports (44.74%) as critical interventions in fostering Two-Spirit health. The Alliance’s immediate response was to develop community-led responses to address urgent concerns. Our key promising practice has been hosting Two-Spirit gatherings as community-based health/cultural supports; the gatherings also serve as an opportunity for the Alliance to consult the Two-Spirit community about priorities and concerns. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Alliance explored ways to keep the Two-Spirit community safe while maintaining critical social support(s) and gaining invaluable knowledge from the Two-Spirit community. We designed a survey that provided critical feedback resulting in the Alliance shifting priorities towards developing ways to bring Two-Spirit people together safely by virtual means, seeking sustainable resources to address emerging health concerns, and increasing capacity development of the Alliance.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i1.36718
T. Devine, A. Boulton, Katie McMennamin, Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata
“Ko te pae tawhiti whāia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina; seek to bring distant horizons closer and sustain and cherish those that have been arrived at”. This whakatauāki or proverb, from Dr Whakaari Te Rangitakuku Metekingi (LLD, CBE) of Whanganui and Ngāti Hauiti tribes reminds us that, while we must have a vision to aspire towards, we must also tend to the here and now, to the issues that are up front and close to home. It exhorts us to strengthen what has already been achieved and find ways of creating benefits for others. This paper presents the collaborative response to COVID-19 by Iwi (tribes) within Te Ranga Tupua (TRT), a collective of Iwi from the South Taranaki/Whanganui/Rangitīkei/Ruapehu regions of Aotearoa New Zealand. The research employs a mixed methods design, based on a Kaupapa Maori approach. The quantitative section identifies the population served and quantum of support provided, while the qualitative data presents the processes and associated learnings from the perspective of those tasked with the response. TRTs response to the threat of COVID-19 is shown to have been grounded in Māori values (tikanga), whānau (family) based and holistic, taking into account the mental, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual elements of safety and wellbeing, rather than just the absence or presence of the virus . The extensive relationships and networks that existed between tribes represented in the TRT collective were key to the timely distribution of care and support to Iwi members, to appropriate and relevant information dissemination and to the overall wellbeing of the people during the most difficult times of the COVID-19 response.
“Ko te pae tawhiti whāia kia tata，Ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina；寻求拉近遥远的地平线，并维持和珍惜那些已经到达的人”。这句来自旺加尼和Ngāti Hauiti部落的Whakaari Te Rangitakuku Metekingi博士（LLD，CBE）的whakatauāki或谚语提醒我们，虽然我们必须有一个向往的愿景，但我们也必须关注此时此地，关注眼前和国内的问题。它敦促我们加强已经取得的成就，并找到为他人创造利益的方法。本文介绍了新西兰奥泰罗阿南塔拉纳基/旺加努伊/朗吉特凯伊/鲁阿佩胡地区的伊维人集体Te Ranga Tupua（TRT）内伊维人（部落）对新冠肺炎的合作应对。这项研究采用了一种混合方法设计，基于考帕帕毛利语的方法。定量部分确定了所服务的人群和所提供的支持数量，而定性数据则从负责响应的人的角度介绍了过程和相关的学习。TRT对新冠肺炎威胁的反应被证明是基于毛利人的价值观（tikanga）、whānau（家庭）和整体性的，考虑到了安全和福祉的精神、情感、社会、文化和精神因素，而不仅仅是病毒的存在或不存在。在新冠肺炎应对最困难的时期，TRT集体中代表的部落之间存在的广泛关系和网络对于及时向Iwi成员分发护理和支持、适当和相关的信息传播以及人民的整体福祉至关重要。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i1.36676
Marie-Eve Poitras, Amanda Canapé, K. Bacon, Vanessa T. Vaillancourt, Sharon N. Hatcher, Amélie Boudreault
The world was caught off guard by the swift spread of the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020. For vulnerable populations such as the urban Indigenous, the first wave of the pandemic was even more challenging for multiple reasons. Many of their usual culturally safe services were interrupted, thus they found themselves struggling on different levels. Our team conducted a needs assessment to shed light on how urban Indigenous people living in the X region, in the province of Quebec, Canada, dealt with this situation and what were the most important services regarding holistic health they wished they could have relied on. To respect Indigenous culture, data collection was completed through sharing circles in addition to a web-based survey. The results indicated that participants experienced anxiety and psychological distress during the pandemic. They identified unmet needs related to family services, support in homeschooling, access to traditional medicine and spiritual and cultural practices to name a few. Future work should involve the implementation of culturally safe services, adapted to the pandemic era, for Indigenous people living in urban areas
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Pub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i1.36703
M. Khaketla, Tracey Carr, Nnamdi Dubuka, Brian Quinn, Bruce Reeder, K. Sarker, Angela E. Addae, Anum Ali, G. Groot, Nazmi Sari, J. Vanstone, Collin Hartness, Rim Zayed
In spring 2020, Indigenous communities in north-west Saskatchewan, Canada, experienced the first significant outbreak of COVID-19. Through the collective efforts of public health measures by local, provincial, federal, and community partners, COVID-19 impacts were mitigated, and the severity of the outbreak in north-west Saskatchewan was limited. This article outlines the epidemiological profile of COVID-19 in the area during this period, and the concomitant narrative of the public health control measures. The narrative connects specific culturally grounded and strength-based approaches that were taken by community leaders and public health officials to moderate the pandemic’s impacts and contain the outbreak. Among the lessons learned from these multi-jurisdictional efforts were the need to customize interventions to individual community characteristics and the benefits of continuous consultation and communication with community leadership. These findings suggest that long term monetary investment in the strengths, assets and capacity of communities can contribute towards sustainable solutions for existing structural inequities that have been amplified by the pandemic. The collaboration that resulted from local, provincial, and federal partnerships informed other pandemic response measures for subsequent outbreaks that have affected the region during the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-05DOI: 10.32799/ijih.v17i1.36721
Nicole Ineese-Nash, M. Stein, Kruti Patel
This paper introduces an integrative (or braided) approach to Indigenous youth mental health, designed in response to a synthesis of knowledge from three systematic literature reviews and four informant consultations with mental health providers in various disciplines. The braided approach includes core principles of Indigenous Healing models (IH), Child and Youth Care (CYC) approaches, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) practices. The purpose of this approach is to best serve the mental and spiritual health needs of Indigenous youth across Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings of this research project informed the design and implementation of an online Indigenous youth mental health program, which is discussed in relation to the research.
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