the-world-on-our-shoulders-cultivating-indigenous-youth-leadership;hr

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
The World

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-104
Author(s):  
Michael C. Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Leadership Program ◽  
The World ◽  
Louisiana Purchase ◽  
Louisiana Purchase Exposition

This epilogue reflects on the author's experience while serving as a supporting participant in a grant project known as the Philippine Youth Leadership Program (PYLP). In the closing days of the program, all Filipino participants came together to perform a “Philippine Culture Night.” A conversation between the author and an observer revealed the supposed ubiquity of American culture around the world. If “American” culture is so ubiquitous, then Americans are in no need of discovery, definition, or exhibition, by themselves or by others. This creates an uncomfortable lack of reciprocity in which the dynamics of cultural exhibition are reduced to an asymmetrical “you dance for me, but I never dance for you; I discover, observe, define, and preserve the things of this world, but I am not subjected to those processes by others.” Yet this notion betrays a certain postcolonial cultural narcissism in which the legacies of empire often loom larger in the minds of former colonizing nations than they do in the minds of nations formerly colonized. It cannot be forgotten that “live exhibits” and cultural performers are ultimately agents unto themselves, choosing and participating in representations that are independent of how observers may attempt to objectify them. This was certainly the case for the Moros at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

scholarly journals Reclaiming Identity

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Kainana Cuthers
Keyword(s):  
Strong Sense ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Cook Island ◽  
The World ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Self Discovery

 have been on an ongoing journey of self-discovery. I grew up knowing my maternal grandfather's indigenous Cook Island Māori heritage, however I knew little of  my Māori whakapapa or biological father’s Cook Island Māori heritage. As a result, I undertook this journey to find out 'who I am' and how I belong in the world. This article I will describe key experiences and people that have impacted my life, and explain how these experiences have influenced my interest in my identity. Having experienced this journey to reclaim my identity, I now realize my mana. Therefore, I acknowledge and celebrate my identity. My identity is taonga, and as a Māori and Cook Island Māori man I believe I am privileged with my birth right. My indigenous practice is the promotion of Māori and indigenous identity for the positive development of Māori and indigenous youth. In this essay, I will argue that having a strong sense of identity strengthens an individual's mana and the mana of the individual's family.  

An Advancing Avalanche—The Emergence of Complications in Indigenous Youth with Type 2 Diabetes

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Elizabeth AC Sellers ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Microvascular Complications ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Adult Onset ◽  
Transgenerational Effects ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Onset Type ◽  
The World

Youth-onset type 2 diabetes (diagnosed <18 years of age) is increasing around the world. Indigenous populations are disproportionally affected. The classic microvascular complications of diabetes are now emerging in this population and early data suggest that complications may occur early and more aggressively in youth-onset versus adult-onset disease. Of concern are the transgenerational effects of youth-onset diabetes, with increasing rates of pregestational exposure to diabetes, a potent risk factor for the development of youth-onset type 2 diabetes.

scholarly journals "When you follow your heart, you provide that path for others": Indigenous Models of Youth Leadership in HIV Prevention

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee Monchalin ◽  
Sarah Flicker ◽  
Ciann Wilson ◽  
Tracey Prentice ◽  
Vanessa Oliver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Youth Leadership ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Community History ◽  
Youth Leaders ◽  
Youth Leader ◽  
Taking Action

<p>Cultivating and supporting Indigenous peer youth leaders should be an important part of Canada’s response to HIV. This paper examines how a group of Indigenous youth leaders took up the notion of leadership in the context of HIV prevention. Taking Action II was a community-based participatory action research project.<strong> </strong>Eighteen Indigenous youth leaders from across Canada were invited to share narratives about their passion for HIV prevention through digital storytelling. One-on-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants after they developed their digital stories, and then again several months later. A thematic analysis of the interviews was conducted to identify major themes. Youth identified qualities of an Indigenous youth leader as being confident, trustworthy, willing to listen, humble, patient, dedicated, resilient, and healthy. A number of key examples and challenges of youth leadership were also discussed. In contrast to individualized mainstream ideals,<strong> </strong>Indigenous youth in our study viewed leadership as deeply connected to relationships with family, community, history, legacies, and communal health.<strong> </strong></p>

scholarly journals Translations for Our Nations: Addressing the Indigenous Language Gap in COVID-19 Health Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thilaxcy Yohathasan ◽  
Sterling Stutz
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Plain Language ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
The World

Purpose: The availability of culturally safe and plain-language resources is necessary to reduce the spread of COVID-19 for Indigenous communities around the world. Translations For Our Nations is an initiative addressing these resource gaps, making available COVID-19 health resources in Indigenous languages on the web. The project began in April 2020 as a result of the Indigenous COVID-19 Health Partnership launched by Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, a Dakota and Yaqui medical student, Harvard Medical School) and co-founded by Sterling Stutz and Thilaxcy Yohathasan, (MPH-Indigenous Health at the University of Toronto), and Sukhmeet Singh Sachal (medical student, University of British Columbia). Methods: Translators from Indigenous communities around the world signed up to participate in the project via a GoogleForm in April 2020. Over 100 Indigenous translators and community members in regions (South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and the Pacific) were provided the 5 English language source materials reviewed by physicians and Indigenous youth leaders. Translators submitted their translated documents via email and on September 1, 2020 the website Translations4OurNations.org was launched where the translated documents can be accessed and downloaded with more translations accepted on a rolling basis. Results: Translations for our Nations has published COVID-19 health resources in 40+ Indigenous languages from around the world. The website also includes photos and text submissions from community members speaking to the importance of culturally-specific COVID-19 health information disseminated directly to communities in local languages and dialects. Implications:  Indigenous Nations have the right to access vital health information in their mother tongue. This project is led by and designed for Indigenous youth and Indigenous community members to empower individuals and communities to make informed choices regarding their health and exposure risks, and decrease the risk of COVID-19 transmission in Indigenous communities around the world.

Mní Wičoni—Water Is Alive

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-196
Author(s):  
Wesley C. Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Arable Land ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Industrial Projects ◽  
Youth Council ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
Burial Grounds

This chapter traces the story of youth at Standing Rock in 2016. Indigenous youth drew from and innovated within sacred traditions, called themselves water protectors, and developed a media savvy nonviolence that drew tens of thousands of people as well as the world’s attention to Standing Rock in 2016. Their media messaging, digital engagement, and rapid mobilization techniques created crucial blueprints for other movements around the world. They also created an incredibly innovative organization, the International Indigenous Youth Council, (IIYC). Their information sharing made it possible to stall or stop industrial projects that threatened water supplies, arable land, and Indigenous burial grounds in over three hundred communities worldwide, promoting land sovereignty and challenging settler colonialism. Rallying against them were giant multinational energy companies and governments with access to huge teams of technocrats—those trained to harness the law, big data, technical expertise, and traditional political power that wanted to make sure the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) – and many other pipelines and energy technologies across the world – continued to be built. The IIYC challenge to this corporate plutocracy put the world on notice: the next generation will not stand idly by watching the world burnt, cut down, and mined into extinction for the profit of a few.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

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