My body, my territory: Indigenous women, territoriality, and the rights of cultural minorities

Abstract This paper will reflect on key findings from a Summer 2017 initiative entitled The Role of Culture and Land-Based Healing in Addressing and Ending Violence against Indigenous Women and Two-Spirited People. The Indigenist and decolonizing methodological approach of this work ensured that all research was grounded in experiential and reciprocal ways of learning. Two major findings guide the next phase of this research, complicating the premise that traditional economic activities are healing for Indigenous women and Two-Spirit people. First, the complexities of the mainstream labour force were raised numerous times. Traditional economies are pressured in ongoing ways through exploitative labour practices. Secondly, participants emphasized the importance of attending to the responsibility of nurturing, enriching, and sustaining the wellbeing of soil, water, and original seeds in the process of creating renewal gardens as a healing endeavour. In other words, we have an active role to play in healing the environment and not merely using the environment to heal ourselves. Gardening as research and embodied knowledge was stressed by extreme weather changes including hail in June, 2018, which meant that participants spent as much time talking about the healing of the earth and her systems as the healing of Indigenous women in a context of ongoing colonialism.

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AGE FEATURES OF MOLECULAR-BIOLOGICAL SUBTYPES OF BREAST CANCER IN THE REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

Problems in oncology ◽

10.37469/0507-3758-2018-64-2-196-199 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 196-199

Author(s):

Gulya Miryusupova ◽

G. Khakimov ◽

N. Shayusupov

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Cancer Care ◽

Indigenous Women ◽

Morbidity And Mortality ◽

Breast Cancer Data ◽

Female Population ◽

Cancer Data ◽

Age Related ◽

The Republic ◽

Age Features

According to the results of breast cancer data in the Republic of Uzbekistan in addition to the increase in morbidity and mortality from breast cancer among women the presence of age specific features among indigenous women in the direction of “rejuvenating” of the disease with all molecular-biological (phenotypic) subtypes of breast cancer were marked. Within the framework of age-related features the prevalence of the least favorable phenotypes of breast cancer was found among indigenous women: Her2/neu hyperexpressive and three times negative subtype of breast cancer. The data obtained made it possible to build a so-called population “portrait” of breast cancer on the territory of the Republic, which in turn would contribute to further improvement of cancer care for the female population of the country.

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