scholarly journals Canada's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the Imperative for a More Inclusive Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John G Hansen ◽  
Emeka E Dim
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Women And Girls

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) emerged to bring attention to the overrepresentation of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. It has raised awareness about systemic racism and sexism as well as social and economic conditions experienced by Canada's Indigenous population. Yet, research shows that Indigenous males are the most likely to be murdered in Canada (Mulligan, Axford, & Soecki, 2016). Since Indigenous men are going missing and are murdered in disturbing numbers, and they are fathers, brothers, and sons to Indigenous women and girls, it is understandable that many in the Indigenous community wanted to include them in the inquiry. Our analysis explores how the MMIWG and discourses about inclusion and exclusion have been framed in ways that limit interpretations about the root causes of problems experienced by Indigenous people, especially when they exclude an important part of the Indigenous population—Indigenous males. We draw upon Indigenous perceptions of the inquiry and analyses of social norms and stereotypes in order to explore the conflicting positions and experiences associated with missing and murdered Indigenous people in Canada. We conclude by exploring the need for a more comprehensive inquiry. We recognize that a holistic model of inquiry that honours the voices of Indigenous communities is crucial to a proper investigation into missing and murdered Indigenous people in Canada.

scholarly journals Traditional Medicine for Children among Kaluppini Indigenous People in South Sulawesi

2020 ◽  
pp. 319-331
Author(s):  
Nurbaya Nurbaya ◽  
Wahyu Chandra ◽  
Pramesthi Widya Hapsari
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Traditional Birth Attendants ◽  
Birth Attendants ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
Traditional Remedies ◽  
Sick Children

The traditional knowledge about the use of ancestral medicines to cure children was highly valued by the indigenous community and an essential part of their indigenous health system. This study aimed to provide insight into the traditional medication using plant-based medication to children in an indigenous community in South Sulawesi Province. This study was conducted in Kaluppini Village, Enrekang Regency, South Sulawesi. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted both in Bahasa Indonesia and the local language. Informants were traditional birth attendants and mothers of under-five. This study was carried out from January to June 2018. Data were analyzed using thematic coding. It is found that Kaluppini mothers have traditional knowledge of treatment. They used kinds of plants as traditional remedies to cure their children. This traditional medication named as pembollo’ and pejappi. Pembollo’ are traditional plants intended to cure sick children. Kaluppini people believe that pejappi is a collection of traditional plant that can treat kinds of illnesses among children, including to prevent them from supernatural things. Kaluppini indigenous people practice and believe in their traditional plants to cure their children. Traditional birth attendants play a crucial role in providing these traditional plants. Information provided in this study could be a rational basis for health-related stakeholders to develop programs of health education and promotion for indigenous communities.

scholarly journals Movement of Indigenous Communities Targeting an Agro-Industrial Investment in North-Eastern Cambodia

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 187-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sokphea Young
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Regulatory Enforcement ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Government ◽  
Industrial Investment

This study examines the dynamics and outcomes of movements by indigenous communities that targeted an agro-industrial investment demanding remedy to adverse impacts on their socio-economic conditions. Since the employment of initial institutional tactics, such as peaceful protests and petitions, yielded no significant outcomes, the indigenous communities escalated their tactics to non-institutional tactics: Violent protests. To respond, the government chose a combination of partial repression and moderate concession. To address the government responses, as well as the demands of indigenous communities, the company mitigated most of the adverse socio-economic impacts. As a result, the indigenous communities were able to achieve most of their demands. This paper, therefore, concludes by arguing that tactical escalation of indigenous community movements from institutional to non-institutional tactics influences the government and company to address the demands of indigenous communities, and also shapes the behaviour of the company operating in a host country with lax and uncertain regulatory enforcement.

scholarly journals KONSTUKSI PEMAKNAAAN MASYARAKAT PRIBUMI: MAKNA MASYARAKAT PENDATANG BAGI ANGGOTA MASYARAKAT PRIBUMI DESA NEROKTOG KECAMATAN PINANG KOTA TANGERANG

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Een Irianti
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Village ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This article examines the meaning of immigrant society for members of indigenous communities by taking the case in the village of Neroktog, Pinang Subdistrict, Tangerang City, using descriptive qualitative assessment, this research is carried out by exploring the phenomenon construction the reality of social interactions that occur between indigenous and migrant communities. The results show that the meaning of self, the meaning of information and the meaning of immigrants are described differently by each member of the indigenous community. Differences in perceptions that occur indicate that experience, attitudes, power, information, the meaning of self become a construction space where attendance is interpreted by indigenous people.

scholarly journals In Search of the Truth: Uncovering Nursing’s Involvement in Colonial Harms and Assimilative Policies Five Years Post Truth and Reconciliation Commission

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Paisly Michele Symenuk ◽  
Dawn Tisdale ◽  
Danielle H. Bourque Bearskin ◽  
Tessa Munro
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Residential Schools ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Forced Sterilization ◽  
Women And Girls

The year 2020 marks five years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada released its Calls to Action, directing nursing to take action on both “truth” and “reconciliation.” The aim of this article is to examine how nurses have responded to the TRC’s call for truth in uncovering nursing’s involvement in past and present colonial harms that continue to negatively impact Indigenous people. A narrative review was used to broadly examine nurses’ responses to uncovering nursing’s complicity in five colonial harms: Indian hospitals, Indian Residential Schools, child apprehension, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), and forced sterilization. The paucity of results during the post-TRC period demonstrates a lack of scholarship in uncovering the truth of nursing’s complicity in these systems. Based on findings, we explore two potential barriers in undertaking this work in nursing, including a challenge to the image of nursing and anti-Indigenous racism.

scholarly journals The "Idle No More" Movement: Paradoxes of First Nations Inclusion in the Canadian Context

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Wotherspoon ◽  
John Hansen
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Alternative Conceptions ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Limit Solutions

Idle No More, a recent protest movement initiated to draw attention to concerns by Indigenous people and allies about changes in Canada's environment and economic policies, has also raised awareness about social and economic conditions experienced by much of Canada's Indigenous population. While discourses and policies oriented to social inclusion are not as prominent in Canada as in Europe and several other contexts, these conditions and the strategies adopted by governments to address them are consistent with narrowly-framed inclusion policies. We provide an overview of what these conditions represent and how they have come to be framed in the context of the Idle No More movement. However, we extend our analysis to understand how the Idle No More movement and discourses of inclusion and exclusion alike have often been framed in ways that further limit solutions to the problems that they are oriented to resolve by stigmatizing and distancing Indigenous people, especially when they ignore or undermine distinct Indigenous rights and the foundations of formal Aboriginal status. We draw upon Indigenous concepts of justice and critical analyses of power relations in order to explore the contradictory locations and experiences associated with Indigenous inclusion in the Canadian context. We conclude by exploring the movement's contributions to broadened conceptions of inclusion that build upon alternative conceptions of socioeconomic participation and success.

scholarly journals Building Pattern Technique of an Indigenous Community – Does Its Appearances a Distinctive Representation?

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mustafizur Rahman ◽  
Mohammad Tanvir Hasan ◽  
Shahidul Islam ◽  
Jiaul Hassan Mithun
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Land Occupation ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Construction Techniques

Bangladesh is enriched with beautiful traditional indigenous cultures. Different indigenous peoples with their distinctive existences also considerably create an enhance values and lifestyles to the socio-cultural sectors of Bangladesh [1]. Habitually, these indigenous communities have been comparable to live a large combined family to shear their lifestyles [2]. Presently the country has 45 indigenous communities who are living in different locations. All indigenous people within this country have their own style to build their settlements with special techniques to keep them safe and sound from all types of natural and environmental vulnerabilities and also enhance their knowledge of construction techniques and lifestyle. Rakhain is one of them with very small number of people are still living in different regions within the country which have their own system of building techniques. Study found that for several hundreds of years Rakhains are strictly following their indigenous prescription of house and settlement pattern. Although like other indigenous people of this country, they have mountains of problems, such as forced land occupation, lack of security and minority characteristics. Above all, forced political separation has gradually drowned them in the abysmal pit of marginal destiny. This has turned them into exiles in their own land. As a result, many of them are being forced to leave the country and as a result they misplaced their native knowledge and technique to construct. Thus, this study will initially focus on to search for the distinctiveness of their settlement pattern and building construction techniques and lifestyle. Again, in view of their problems, knowledge and experiences concerning archetype, built and house pattern, this study will finally explain how Rakhains accumulate their every distinctiveness from history and for present and future invention.

scholarly journals Rádio Comunitária e povos indígenas: entraves e potencialidades para pluralidade de vozes

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Giovana Borges MESQUITA
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Radio Station ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Human Right

O artigo busca analisar os principais entraves para a instalação e funcionamento de uma rádio comunitária numa área indígena situada em Pernambuco, estado com a quarta maior população indígena do Brasil, composta por mais de 47 mil pessoas, que habitam a região Agreste e o Sertão. Ao mesmo tempo, o trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre como as comunidades indígenas, na maioria das vezes criminalizadas pela mídia hegemônica, podem tentar caminhos para ter acesso a comunicação, como um direito humano, assumindo a rádio comunitária como espaço para o exercício da cidadania. O trabalho é um relato da experiência da “gestação”, ao longo do último ano (2017-2018) do Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação à Docência para a Diversidade (Pibid Diversidade), de uma rádio comunitária na web, que como destaca Peruzzo (2010), é um espaço propício ao fornecimento de informações e de discussão dos assuntos de interesse local, além de funcionar difundindo a produção cultural dos grupos onde está inserida e em seus entornos. Rádio Comunitária. Direito à Comunicação. Pibid Diversidade. Community Radio and indigenous people: obstacles and pontecialities for the pluralities of voices AbstractThis article analyzes the main obstacles to the installation and operation of a community radio station in an indigenous area located in Pernambuco, Brazil's state with the fourth largest indigenous population, composed by more than 47 thousand people living in the Agreste and Sertão regions. At the same time, the work proposes a reflection on how indigenous communities, most often criminalized by the hegemonic media, can try pathways to have communication access, as a human right, by assuming community radio station as a space for citizenship exercise. The work is an account of the “gestation” experience, through the last year (2017-2018) of the Institutional Program of Teaching Initiatives for Diversity (Pibid Diversity), of a community radio station on web, as Peruzzo (2010) points out, is a space conducive to providing information and local interest issues discussion, working as well to disseminate the groups cultural production where it is inserted and in its surroundings.Community Radio Station. Communication Right. Pibid Diversidade.

scholarly journals Ethnic Feminicide

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa Lunday ◽  
Shirley Yee
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Feminist Issue ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Gender Based

This paper explores the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls epidemic in Washington State and how the state has failed to address the issue, underlining its complicity and impunity. It takes into account that this epidemic is part of a global crisis of femicide, drawing specifically on the Latin American term, feminicidios, or feminicide, the gender-based murders of women and the state’s impunity in these cases. This paper then names another form of femicide, ethnic feminicde, arguing that the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls epidemic falls under this crisis because of the underlying systemic racism and sexism in state institutions. This paper uses the indigenous methodologies of reframing and intervention, as described by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, to explore this epidemic, reframing it into a transnational feminist issue, not just and indigenous issue, and asking how Washington state, and America as a whole, can intervene, with indigenous leaders taking charge.

“Someone Else's Land is Our Garden!”: Risky Labor in Taipei's Indigenous Food Boom

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomonori Sugimoto
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Intellectual Labor ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Scholarly Discourse

In recent years, Taiwan has seen a surge of interest in the foodways of indigenous Austronesian people. Public and scholarly discourse tends to focus on either indigenous foodways' cultural significance or the healthiness of food items eaten by indigenous people. These two dominant perspectives, however, have obfuscated the issue of labor. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an urban indigenous community in the Taipei region, this article addresses what I call risky labor behind the maintenance of indigenous foodways today, especially in urban contexts where many indigenous people have settled over the last forty years. It discusses two forms of risky labor: (1) the gendered labor of urban indigenous women who acquire food items by encroaching upon state and private properties and (2) the intellectual labor of urban indigenous people who share knowledge about indigenous foodways with nonindigenous Han Chinese urbanites.

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