{"title":"Colonial Trauma: Complex, continuous, collective, cumulative and compounding effects on the health of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and beyond","authors":"T. Mitchell","doi":"10.32799/ijih.v14i2.32251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v14i2.32251","url":null,"abstract":"Indigenous peoples across the globe suffer a disproportionate burden of both mental and physical illness relative to Settler populations. A substantial body of research indicates that colonialism and its associated processes are important determinants of Indigenous peoples' health. In Canada, despite an abundance of health research documenting inequalities in morbidity and mortality rates for Indigenous peoples, relatively little research has focused on the political, historical, cultural basis of health disparities. This paper advances a theory of colonial trauma as a conceptual framework with which to understand Indigenous health and mental health disparities. Colonial Trauma is described as a complex, continuous, collective, cumulative and compounding interaction of impacts related to the imposition of colonial policies and practices which continue to separate Indigenous Peoples from their land, languages, cultural practices, and one another. The theory of colonial trauma is presented as useful a framework for understanding the links between persistent health disparities, the traumagenic nature of colonialism and the right of self-determination.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":"118 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41290174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"S. Stewart, Angela Mashford‐Pringle","doi":"10.32799/ijih.v14i2.32958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v14i2.32958","url":null,"abstract":"Since 2004 the International Journal of Indigenous Health has published Indigenous open access \u0000research and it is time to self-evaluation.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42615409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growing Beyond Nutrition:","authors":"Kelsey Timler, C. Varcoe, H. Brown","doi":"10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31938","url":null,"abstract":"Many Indigenous communities in Canada experience disproportionate rates of food insecurity and diet-related diseases impacted by historic and ongoing colonialism. Barriers to health and wellbeing associated with ongoing colonial processes also have resulted in inequities for Indigenous peoples within the criminal justice system. A prison garden program in British Columbia, Canada, attempts to address inmate rehabilitation and Indigenous community food insecurity by supporting incarcerated men to grow and subsequently donate organic produce to rural and remote Indigenous communities. Qualitative research undertaken to study program impacts shows that the focus on food security for Indigenous communities, while important, does not take into account wider contexts of colonialism and the importance of access to land, resources and rights inherent in food sovereignty. The study findings signal the limitations of programs and research that focus solely on food security for Indigenous peoples, and outlines how accounting for the colonial context can emphasize the critical role of Indigenous values, community strengths, and priorities for fostering food sovereignty and health.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43671133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cindy Peltier, Louela Manankil-Rankin, Karey D. McCullough, Megan Paulin, P. Anderson, Kanessa Hanzlik
{"title":"Self-Location and Ethical Space in Wellness Research","authors":"Cindy Peltier, Louela Manankil-Rankin, Karey D. McCullough, Megan Paulin, P. Anderson, Kanessa Hanzlik","doi":"10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31914","url":null,"abstract":"Working with Indigenous communities involves responsibility, relationship, respect, and reciprocity (Kirkness & Barnhardt, 2016). Our research consists of a partnership with Nipissing First Nation to explore their citizens’ understanding of wellness. Our aim is to tell a collective story of wellness based on the experiences of Nipissing First Nation citizens. As part of our relational process, our research team engaged in an exercise of self-location in preparation for working with Nipissing First Nation stories. This process involved looking back into our own stories of wellness from three temporal points: as children, youth, and adults. Our collective perspective of wellness involved three main themes of relationship, identity, and determinants of health. This exercise helped researchers become aware of their own subjective lenses about wellness. Awakening to our own stories helped us to recognize the ethical space that existed between us as researchers, the stories we will gather, and the perspectives of our community advisory committee. Engaging in this exercise illuminated the need for a continual reflexive stance, consistently being mindful about the privilege we hold as researchers and the invisible stories that creep into an analysis. The process of self-location was an essential element in beginning our research journey. It prepared us for working respectfully and reciprocally with the community that honours the ethical space we collectively share.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48487372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Kutcher, Priscilla Pichette, M. Macdonald, Franco A. Carvenvale
{"title":"Exploring the health and well-being of children and youth in Winneway, Québec","authors":"A. Kutcher, Priscilla Pichette, M. Macdonald, Franco A. Carvenvale","doi":"10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31910","url":null,"abstract":"Health inequalities of Indigenous children and youth in Canada are well documented. Recently, children and youths’ perspectives are being recognized as valuable. However, there is a paucity of literature that seek children and youth’s perspective regarding their health and well-being. The purpose of this study was to understand how children and youth in Winneway, QC view health and well-being and to identify their main health and well-being concerns. A focused ethnographic study with Indigenous decolonizing framework was used with data primarily collected through interviews of fifteen participants aged 6 to 17. Children and youth in Winneway view their health and well-being as multidimensional and view themselves as decision-makers in their health and well-being choices. Their main health and well-being concerns include poor eating choices, difficulty expressing emotional and mental concerns, how children and youth treat others, and youth participation in unhealthy behaviours. These findings reveal the valuable perspectives that Indigenous children and youth can have regarding their health and well-being. They also suggest that future health and well-being interventions targeting Indigenous children and youth seek out and respect the knowledge and perspectives that children and youth have of their health and well-being.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70107532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micro-Reconciliation as a Pathway for Transformative Change","authors":"Caroline L. Tait, William Mussell, Robert Henry","doi":"10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31928","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the concept of micro-reconciliation as a pragmatic action to support cultural safety and humility work. Similar to cultural safety and humility, micro-reconciliation practices aim to challenge and diminish racism, inequality and inequity experienced by Indigenous peoples. In arguing for changes to the human service sector, micro-reconciliation exists at the intersections between entrenched structural racism and the psychological and emotional roots of discrimination that play out in every day service delivery. Three organizing practices are discussed; acknowledment, witnessing and moral courage, as the basis of micro-reconciliaion work and the advancement of cultural safety and reconciliaton. ","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43980061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous factors relevant for Safe Birth in Cultural Safety among Nancue ñomndaa communities in Guerrero, Mexico","authors":"Iván Sarmiento","doi":"10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/ijih.v14i2.31946","url":null,"abstract":"Culturally unsafe approaches have governed the study of Indigenous birthing systems in the South of Mexico. The actions that these approaches promote tend to perpetuate the dominance of Western views in the shaping of health care systems; thus, reducing their cultural pertinence and quality. In this protocol, we propose a methodology to understand the most relevant factors associated with safe birth according to the knowledge of traditional Indigenous midwives. We propose to use conversations as a methodology to promote intercultural dialogue. Conversations recognize mutual interaction and construction of meaning, thus allowing for Western and Indigenous practitioners to interchange knowledge and mutually enrich each other. Three experienced traditional midwives will participate in one-to-one conversations with an indigenous researcher. They will provide the first level of understanding on the meaning of relevant factors for safe birth in their communities. A group of non-indigenous Academic researchers will participate in the process sharing their knowledge about the issue and support the analysis process. These initial results will go to a group session with traditional midwives and their apprentices to check the content, suggest additional elements and share the knowledge among them. This study is part of a bigger effort to support and strength the practices of the traditional midwives in these communities.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46874483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving Systems to Cultural Safety","authors":"S. Stewart, Angela Mashford‐Pringle","doi":"10.32799/IJIH.V14I1.32731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/IJIH.V14I1.32731","url":null,"abstract":"All Indigenous peoples across the globe have experienced multiple historical colonial aggression and assaults. In Canada and the USA for example, education was used as a tool of oppression for Indigenous peoples through residential school. Child welfare, health and health care, and forced land relocation are also sites of intensive and invasive harms.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48720575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving and Enhancing System Change","authors":"S. Stewart, Angela Mashford‐Pringle","doi":"10.32799/IJIH.V14I1.32726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/IJIH.V14I1.32726","url":null,"abstract":"All Indigenous peoples across the globe have experienced multiple historical colonial aggression and assaults. In Canada and the USA for example, education was used as a tool of oppression for Indigenous peoples through residential school. Child welfare, health and health care, and forced land relocation are also sites of intensive and invasive harms. Health services continue to be a site of systemic and personal oppression for Indigenous peoples across Canada and the world (Reading 2013). For many years, Indigenous peoples have faced discrimination and racism when accessing biomedical health care. Implementation of colonization in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere, have been well documented to adversely influence aspects of health in many Indigenous communities worldwide and linked to high rates of mental health, education, and employment challenges (see Loppie & Wein, 2009; Mowbray, 2007; Paradies, Harris, & Anderson, 2008); these traumas are rooted attempts in cultural extermination and deep-set pains in regard to identity and well-being (Stout & Downey, 2006; Thurston & Mashford-Pringle, 2015).","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43405455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building on Strengths: Collaborative Intergenerational Health Research with Urban First Nations and Métis Women and Girls","authors":"E. Cooper, S. Driedger, J. Lavoie","doi":"10.32799/IJIH.V14I1.31932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32799/IJIH.V14I1.31932","url":null,"abstract":"Little research has focused on how Indigenous girls and their familial female caregivers negotiate issues pertaining to wellbeing and decision-making practices. To address this gap, we employed a novel intergenerational Indigenous partnership methods using various decolonizing action and arts-based activities, to allow participants to guide and modify the direction of the research throughout data collection. We report on three separate activities: a physical game to address concepts of wellness, a memory game that focused on harm reduction and an art project that explored self-esteem. Within each of these activities, female family members and girls worked together to unpack issues of importance within their lives. We conclude that a flexible participatory research design within an intergenerational setting can meet not only the proposed research objectives, but participants’ ever-changing questions and concerns pertaining to health and wellbeing, while still producing rich data to answer important research questions.","PeriodicalId":54163,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Indigenous Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2019-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47034550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}