scholarly journals Key Considerations: Indigenous Peoples in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Araujo, Susana Araujo, Susana ◽  
Mariah Cannon ◽  
Megan Schmidt-Sane ◽  
Alex Shankland ◽  
Mieke Snijder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Indigenous Voices

Indigenous peoples have experienced heightened vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic and face disproportionately high COVID-19 mortality. To better address these vulnerabilities, it is critical to adapt COVID-19 programmes to the particular needs of indigenous peoples, as articulated by indigenous voices. It is also vital to link up with responses already ongoing and led by indigenous peoples to mitigate this crisis. This SSHAP brief discusses key considerations for COVID-19 response and recovery, with a particular focus on the Amazon region of South America. The considerations in this brief are drawn from a review of evidence and insights provided by indigenous leaders and researchers from several different continents. The considerations are rooted in key principles for indigenous community engagement, as articulated by indigenous peoples and organisations. This brief may be of interest to health and development policymakers and practitioners working in indigenous communities and territories and can be read in conjunction with the SSHAP background report on ‘Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19.’

Indigenous Studies in the United States and Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubrey Jean Hanson ◽  
Sam McKegney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Indigenous Voices

Indigenous literary studies, as a field, is as diverse as Indigenous Peoples. Comprising study of texts by Indigenous authors, as well as literary study using Indigenous interpretive methods, Indigenous literary studies is centered on the significance of stories within Indigenous communities. Embodying continuity with traditional oral stories, expanding rapidly with growth in publishing, and traversing a wild range of generic innovation, Indigenous voices ring out powerfully across the literary landscape. Having always had a central place within Indigenous communities, where they are interwoven with the significance of people’s lives, Indigenous stories also gained more attention among non-Indigenous readers in the United States and Canada as the 20th century rolled into the 21st. As relationships between Indigenous Peoples (Native American, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) and non-Indigenous people continue to be a social, political, and cultural focus in these two nation-states, and as Indigenous Peoples continue to work for self-determination amid colonial systems and structures, literary art plays an important role in representing Indigenous realities and inspiring continuity and change. An educational dimension also exists for Indigenous literatures, in that they offer opportunities for non-Indigenous readerships—and, indeed, for readers from within Indigenous nations—to learn about Indigenous people and perspectives. Texts are crucially tied to contexts; therefore, engaging with Indigenous literatures requires readers to pursue and step into that beauty and complexity. Indigenous literatures are also impressive in their artistry; in conveying the brilliance of Indigenous Peoples; in expressing Indigenous voices and stories; in connecting pasts, presents, and futures; and in imagining better ways to enact relationality with other people and with other-than-human relatives. Indigenous literatures span diverse nations across vast territories and materialize in every genre. While critics new to the field may find it an adjustment to step into the responsibility—for instance, to land, community, and Peoplehood—that these literatures call for, the returns are great, as engaging with Indigenous literatures opens up space for relationship, self-reflexivity, and appreciation for exceptional literary artistry. Indigenous literatures invite readers and critics to center in Indigeneity, to build good relations, to engage beyond the text, and to attend to Indigenous storyways—ways of knowing, being, and doing through story.

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES RELATED TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN MALAYSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Kelvin Celesistinus ◽  
Siti Radiaton Adawiyah Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Given that the way of life of indigenous peoples is usually associated with low living standards, the government has an important role to play in ensuring that the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous communities is narrowed. Unfortunately, as the program to improve the quality of life of indigenous communities has been widely implemented across the country, tension has begun to escalate among the indigenous community on the real motive of the program. Government policy objectives to assimilate indigenous communities into mainstream society leave little scope for indigenous groups to pursue their own life projects. Several studies have reported that the development of the government within traditional indigenous lands has caused conflict between the developer and the indigenous community. This situation has caused the indigenous people to bear the consequences of losing their traditional land, which is very important to reflect their identity. The aim of this paper is therefore to examine the current issues related to the land development initiative on the way of life of indigenous peoples in Malaysia. Documents search from published and unpublished material is used for this paper and a guide with a set of settings five years prior. The findings of this paper show that the development of the government in indigenous traditional lands has disrupted the traditional way of life, leading to multiple adverse effects on the community and the environment. In other words, the core of the indigenous people's struggle to this date is therefore concentrated in their involvement in making decisions in any development proposed to enhance their quality of life. Apart from that, the perspective of land development between the government and the indigenous peoples is quite different from one another. In conclusion, it is important to elicit knowledge and opinion from both indigenous peoples and government agencies to ensure the impact of land development activities can be minimized and implemented appropriately.

scholarly journals Indigenous Science, Climate Change, and Indigenous Community Building: A Framework of Foundational Perspectives for Indigenous Community Resilience and Revitalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9569
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Cajete
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Indigenous Science

This essay presents an overview of foundational considerations and perceptions which collectively form a framework for thinking about Indigenous community building in relationship to the tasks of addressing the real challenges, social issues, and consequences of climate change. The ideas shared are based on a keynote address given by the author at the International Conference on Climate Change, Indigenous Resilience and Local Knowledge Systems: Cross-time and Cross-boundary Perspectives held at the National Taiwan University on 13–14 December 2019. The primary audience for this essay is Indigenous Peoples and allies of Indigenous Peoples who are actively involved in climate change studies, sustainable community building, and education. As such, it presents the author’s personal view of key orientations for shifting current paradigms by introducing an Indigenized conceptual framework of community building which can move Indigenous communities toward revitalization and renewal through strategically implementing culturally responsive Indigenous science education, engaging sustainable economics and sustainability studies. As an Indigenous scholar who has maintained an insider perspective and has worked extensively with community members around issues of culturally responsive science education, the author challenges all concerned to take Indigenous science seriously as an ancient body of applied knowledge for sustaining communities and ensuring survival over time and through generations. The author also challenges readers to initiate new thinking about how to use Indigenous science, community building, and education as a tool and a body of knowledge which may be integrated with appropriate forms of Western science in new and creative ways that serve to sustain and ensure survival rather than perpetuate unexamined Western business paradigms of community development.

scholarly journals “Garbage in, Garbage Out” Does Not Hold True for Indigenous Community Flood Extent Modeling in the Prairie Pothole Region

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2486
Author(s):  
Anuja Thapa ◽  
Lori Bradford ◽  
Graham Strickert ◽  
Xiaolei Yu ◽  
Anthony Johnston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Prairie Pothole Region ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Flood Mapping ◽  
Prairie Pothole

Extensive land use changes and uncertainties arising from climate change in recent years have contributed to increased flood magnitudes in the Canadian Prairies and threatened the vulnerabilities of many small and indigenous communities. There is, thus, a need to create modernized flood risk management tools to support small and rural communities’ preparations for future extreme events. In this study, we developed spatial flood information for an indigenous community in Central Saskatchewan using LiDAR based DEM and a spatial modeling tool, the wetland DEM ponding model (WDPM). A crucial element of flood mapping in this study was community engagement in data collection, scenario description for WDPM, and flood map validation. Community feedback was also used to evaluate the utility of the modelled flood outputs. The results showed the accuracy of WDPM outputs could be improved not only with the quality of DEM but also with additional community-held information on contributing areas (watershed information). Based on community feedback, this accessible, spatially-focused modeling approach can provide relevant information for community spatial planning and developing risk management strategies. Our study found community engagement to be valuable in flood modeling and mapping by: providing necessary data, validating input data through lived experiences, and providing alternate scenarios to be used in future work. This research demonstrates the suitability and utility of LiDAR and WDPM complemented by community participation for improving flood mapping in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR). The approach used in the study also serves as an important guide for applying transdisciplinary tools and methods for establishing good practice in research and helping build resilient communities in the Prairies.

scholarly journals Settler Colonial Pseudo-Solidarity: Indigenous Peoples and the Occupy Movement in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Evan MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Indigenous Voices

As a reaction to neoliberalism, the Occupy movement in Canada presents a radical argument for a just economy. However, it does not engage in any meaningful way with decolonization. Through settler moves to innocence — equating the struggles of indigenous people within colonization with the plight of settlers — Occupy fails to support the cause of indigenous self-determination. Without both effectively centering decolonization within a social justice cause and including indigenous voices within decision-making processes, there can be no long-lasting solidarity created between progressive settlers and indigenous communities. Neoliberalism as a modern face of colonialism is a worthy target of social justice action, but the negation of settler history and treaties provide a roadblock to solidarity. The process of decolonization asks the settler to accept less, but the rhetoric of Occupy focuses on reclaiming wealth and resources that have been seized from their natural owners: working Canadians. The colonial attitudes of most Occupy camps in Canada have resulted in a breakdown in potential alliances, and provide a warning for the next universalizing social justice cause.

scholarly journals Community engagement approaches for Indigenous health research: recommendations based on an integrative review

BMJ Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. e039736
Author(s):  
Chu Yang Lin ◽  
Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez ◽  
Elaine Boyling ◽  
Cheryl Barnabe
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Research Recommendations

ObjectiveCommunity engagement practices in Indigenous health research are promoted as a means of decolonising research, but there is no comprehensive synthesis of approaches in the literature. Our aim was to assemble and qualitatively synthesise a comprehensive list of actionable recommendations to enhance community engagement practices with Indigenous peoples in Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand.DesignIntegrative review of the literature in medical (Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Embase) and Google and WHO databases (search cut-off date 21 July 2020).Article selectionStudies that contained details regarding Indigenous community engagement frameworks, principles or practices in the field of health were included, with exclusion of non-English publications. Two reviewers independently screened the articles in duplicate and reviewed full-text articles.AnalysisRecommendations for community engagement approaches were extracted and thematically synthesised through content analysis.ResultsA total of 63 studies were included in the review, with 1345 individual recommendations extracted. These were synthesised into a list of 37 recommendations for community engagement approaches in Indigenous health research, categorised by stage of research. In addition, activities applicable to all phases of research were identified: partnership and trust building and active reflection.ConclusionsWe provide a comprehensive list of recommendations for Indigenous community engagement approaches in health research. A limitation of this review is that it may not address all aspects applicable to specific Indigenous community settings and contexts. We encourage anyone who does research with Indigenous communities to reflect on their practices, encouraging changes in research processes that are strengths based.

scholarly journals RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA NA COMUNIDADE INDÍGENA DE CATU, CANGUARETAMA/RN: os diferentes grupos humanos que formaram, convivem e conflitam no Brasil

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Ana Beatriz Câmara Maciel ◽  
Cícera Tamara Graciano Leal da Silva Fernandes ◽  
Antonia Salete da Silva Pereira Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
Bibliographical Survey

EXPERIENCE REPORT IN THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF CATU, CANGUARETAMA/RN: the different human groups who formed, live and conflited in BrazilINFORME DE EXPERIENCIA EN COMUNIDAD INDÍGENA DE CATU, CANGUARETAMA/RN: los diferentes grupos humanos que se formaron, viven y se encuentran en conflicto en BrasilO referido trabalho foi direcionado aos estudantes dos 7º Anos A, B e C da Escola Municipal Professora Terezinha Paulino de Lima, localizada no bairro de Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, em Natal/RN, no ano de 2016. Com a premissa de ensinar História e Geografia a partir das discussões sobre os problemas da sociedade atual, procurou-se estimular o debate sobre as diversidades étnico-raciais em defesa de uma educação para a cidadania. Abordou-se sobre as características contemporâneas das comunidades indígenas potiguares e os conflitos atuais relacionados à questão da demarcação de terras, aos estereótipos e aos preconceitos decorrentes de um senso comum sobre a falsa inexistência de índios no estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Procedimentalmente, foram feitas atividades interdisciplinares, dentro da sala de aula formal e fora dela, através de uma sequência didática que, inicialmente, contou com levantamento bibliográfico acerca da temática diversidade étnico-racial em autores clássicos e nos livros didáticos, abordando-se, inclusive, manifestações culturais de grupos sociais afrodescendentes e outros - como meio de ampliação da percepção sobre as diferenças. Em seguida, houve aulas de campo na comunidade indígena de Catu, município de Canguaretama, onde os alunos obtiveram, através de relatos orais, entre outras vivências, informações sobre a história e os dilemas socioambientais dessa comunidade e ao Estuário Potengi, possibilitando análises sobre os impactos da ocupação no território potiguar. Por fim, novamente em sala de aula formal, os alunos sintetizaram suas conclusões e as compartilharam com toda a comunidade escolar, sendo avaliados como tendo alcançado os objetivos propostos para este trabalho adequadamente.Palavras-chave: Povos Índígenas; Povos Formadores do Brasil; Diversidades Étnico-raciais; Comunidade Indígena Catu.ABSTRACTThis report of experience was directed to students of the 7th Years A, B and C of the Municipal School Professor Terezinha Paulino de Lima, located in the neighborhood of Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, in Natal/RN, in the year 2016. With the premise of teaching History and Geography from the discussions about the problems of the current society, we tried to stimulate the debate on ethnic-racial diversities in defense of an education for citizenship. We spoke about the contemporary characteristics of the indigenous communities of Potiguares and the current conflicts related to the land demarcation issue, the stereotypes and the prejudices arising from a common sense about the false inexistence of Indians in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Interdisciplinary activities were carried out, both within and outside the formal classroom, through a didactic sequence that initially had a bibliographical survey about ethnic-racial diversity in classic authors and in textbooks, including, cultural manifestations of afrodescendent social groups and others - as a means of increasing the perception about the differences. Then, there were field lessons to the indigenous community of Catu, municipality of Canguaretama, where the students obtained, through oral reports, among other experiences, information on the history and socio-environmental dilemmas of this community and the Potengi Estuary, making possible impacts of occupation in the territory of the state. Finally, again in the formal classroom, the students synthesized their conclusions and shared them with the whole school community, being evaluated as having achieved the objectives proposed for this work properly.Keywords: Indigenous Peoples; Formative Peoples of Brazil; Ethnic-racial Diversity; Indigenous Community of Catu.RESUMENEl trabajo fue dirigido a los estudiantes de los 7º A, B y C de la Escuela Municipal Profesora Terezinha Paulino de Lima, ubicada en el barrio de Nuestra Señora de la Presentación, en Natal/RN, en el año 2016. Con la premisa de enseñar Historia y Geografía a partir de las discusiones sobre los problemas de la sociedad actual, se intentó estimular el debate sobre las diversidades étnico-raciales en defensa de una educación para la ciudadanía. Se habló sobre las características contemporáneas de las comunidades indígenas potiguares y los conflictos actuales relacionados con la cuestión de la demarcación de tierras, los estereotipos y los prejuicios derivados de un sentido común sobre la falsa inexistencia de indios en el estado de Rio Grande do Norte. En el aula formal y fuera de ella, se realizaron actividades interdisciplinares, a través de una secuencia didáctica que, inicialmente, contó con levantamiento bibliográfico acerca de la temática diversidad étnico-racial en autores clásicos y en los libros didácticos, abordándose, inclusive, manifestaciones culturales de grupos sociales afrodescendientes y otros - como medio de ampliación de la percepción sobre las diferencias. A continuación, hubo clases de campo a la comunidad indígena de Catu, municipio de Canguaretama, donde los alumnos obtuvieron, a través de relatos orales, entre otras vivencias, informaciones sobre la historia y los dilemas socioambientales de esa comunidad y el Estuario Potengi, posibilitando análisis sobre los. impactos de la ocupación en el territorio potiguar. Por último, nuevamente en el aula formal, los alumnos sintetizaron sus conclusiones y las compartieron con toda la comunidad escolar, siendo evaluados como habiendo alcanzado los objetivos propuestos para este trabajo adecuadamente.Palabras clave: Pueblos Indígenas; Pueblos Originales de Brasil; La Diversidad Étnica y Racial; Comunidad Indígena Catu.

scholarly journals From Bi-culturalism, Multiculturalism, to a Treaty Nation: Re-Writing a Story of Indigenous Community Engagement in Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. i-vi
Author(s):  
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
A Priority

Our Journal team is pleased to present its long-anticipated special issue on the scholarship of community engagement with Indigenous communities. Indigenous engagement has been identified by the Journal’s Advisory Board as a priority focus for our Journal and its special issues. Perhaps this emphasis is not surprising for those based in Canada, as Canadians have been witnessing and living through important societal transformations that recently have been gaining momentum in Canada.

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 Community Engagement Approaches for Indigenous Health Research: an Integrative Review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chu Yang Lin ◽  
Adalberto Loyola-Sanchez ◽  
Elaine Boyling ◽  
Cheryl Barnabe
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
World Health ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Cutoff Date

Abstract Background Community engagement practices in Indigenous Health research are promoted as a means of decolonizing research, but there is no comprehensive synthesis of approaches in the literature. Our aim was to assemble and qualitatively synthesize a comprehensive list of actionable recommendations to enhance community engagement practices with Indigenous Peoples.MethodsWe performed an integrative review of literature in medical (Medline, CINAHL and Embase), as well as Google and World Health Organization databases (search cutoff date November 17, 2018). Studies that contained details regarding Indigenous community engagement frameworks, principles or practices in the field of health were included, with exclusion of non-English publications. Two reviewers independently screened the articles in duplicate and reviewed full text articles. Recommendations for community engagement approaches were extracted and thematically synthesized through content analysis.Results A total of 52 studies were included in the review, with 1268 individual recommendations extracted. These were synthesized into a list of 37 recommendations for community engagement approaches in Indigenous health research, categorized by stage of research. In addition, activities applicable to all phases of research were identified: partnership and trust building, and active reflection.Conclusions We provide a comprehensive list of recommendations for Indigenous community engagement approaches in health research. A limitation of this review is that it may not address all aspects applicable to specific Indigenous community settings and contexts. We encourage anyone who does research with Indigenous communities to reflect upon their practices, encouraging changes in research processes that are strengths-based.

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