scholarly journals Self-Location and Ethical Space in Wellness Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Peltier ◽  
Louela Manankil-Rankin ◽  
Karey D McCullough ◽  
Megan Paulin ◽  
Phyllis Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Ethical Space ◽  
Relational Process ◽  
The Invisible

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.

scholarly journals CPBR Process in Urban Settings and the Unique Challenges and Successes

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
Steffi Kim
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Appropriate Practices ◽  
Interpersonal Level

Abstract CBPR is a framework that allows for the collaboration of researchers and communities as co-partners and is a supported approach for Indigenous communities. The community engagement and co-partnership in this study allowed for the researcher's flexibility to be responsive to culturally appropriate practices and priorities of the communities and participants. CBPR principles, including the Elder Advisory Committee (EAC), were utilized in this urban-based project. Challenges presented in many ways, including the processes of a) entering communities, b) relationship building, c) time involvement, and d) recruitment. Successes represented the unique opportunity to enter communities at an interpersonal level, b) close community engagement, c) gathering information beneficial for the research team and the community, and d) extended community engagement. While challenges exist, this approach's benefits are far-reaching promoting trust, support, and interest in future research endeavors. The presenter will discuss strategies and processes helpful in engagement, recruitment, and data collection.

scholarly journals Drinking Water Consumption Patterns: An Exploration of Risk Perception and Governance in Two First Nations Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6851
Author(s):  
Neal Spicer ◽  
Brenda Parlee ◽  
Molly Chisaakay ◽  
Doug Lamalice
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Bottled Water ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Individual Risk

Many Indigenous communities across Canada suffer from the lack of access to clean drinking water; ensuring individuals and communities have safe water to drink either from their home or from their local environment requires the consideration of multiple factors including individual risk perception. In collaboration with local leaders, semi-structured interviews (n = 99) were conducted over a two-year period in the Dene Tha’ First Nation and Kátł’odeeche First Nation to unpack the issue of risk perception and its meaning to local community members. These local metrics of risk perception including smell, taste, safety, health fears and level of concern were then used to explore patterns in other data on drinking water consumption patterns and bottled water use. The results are consistent with previous research related to water insecurity and indicate that both communities consume more bottled water than the average Canadian. Results also varied by jurisdiction; those in Alberta indicated much higher levels of concern and a greater degree of bottled water consumption.

scholarly journals Preparing for the future of public health: ecological determinants of health and the call for an eco-social approach to public health education

2019 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot W. Parkes ◽  
Blake Poland ◽  
Sandra Allison ◽  
Donald C. Cole ◽  
Ian Culbert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Social Approach ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Health Community

AbstractAs a collective organized to address the education implications of calls for public health engagement on the ecological determinants of health, we, the Ecological Determinants Group on Education (cpha.ca/EDGE), urge the health community to properly understand and address the importance of the ecological determinants of the public’s health, consistent with long-standing calls from many quarters—including Indigenous communities—and as part of an eco-social approach to public health education, research and practice. Educational approaches will determine how well we will be equipped to understand and respond to the rapid changes occurring for the living systems on which all life—including human life—depends. We revisit findings from the Canadian Public Health Association’s discussion paper on ‘Global Change and Public Health: Addressing the Ecological Determinants of Health’, and argue that an intentionally eco-social approach to education is needed to better support the health sector’s role in protecting and promoting health, preventing disease and injury, and reducing health inequities. We call for a proactive approach, ensuring that the ecological determinants of health become integral to public health education, practice, policy, and research, as a key part of wider societal shifts required to foster a healthy, just, and ecologically sustainable future.

A Framework for Analyzing Social Interaction Using Broadband Visual Communication Technologies

2010 ◽  
pp. 528-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan O’Donnell ◽  
Heather Molyneaux ◽  
Kerri Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Organizational Relations ◽  
Audio Data

Broadband visual communication (BVC) technologies—such as videoconferencing and video sharing—allow for the exchange of rich simultaneous or pre-recorded visual and audio data over broadband networks. This chapter introduces an analytical framework that can be utilized by multi-disciplinary teams working with BVC technologies to analyze the variables that hinder people’s adoption and use of BVC. The framework identifies four main categories, each with a number of sub-categories, covering variables that are social and technical in nature; namely, the production and reception of audio-visual content, technical infrastructure, interaction of users and groups with the technical infrastructure, and social and organizational relations. The authors apply the proposed framework to a study of BVC technology usability and effectiveness as well as technology needs assessment in remote and rural First Nation (Indigenous) communities of Canada.

scholarly journals Examining environmental contaminant mixtures among adults with type 2 diabetes in the Cree First Nation communities of Eeyou Istchee, Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra M. Zuk ◽  
Leonard J. S. Tsuji ◽  
Evert Nieboer ◽  
Ian D. Martin ◽  
Eric N. Liberda
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Environmental Contaminant ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Disease Etiology ◽  
Contaminant Mixtures

Abstract Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) disproportionately affects Indigenous populations. It is possible that exposure to complex mixtures of environmental contaminants contribute to T2DM development. This study examined the association between complex environmental contaminant mixtures and T2DM among Canadian Indigenous communities from the Eeyou Istchee territory, Quebec, Canada. Using data from the cross-sectional Multi-Community Environment-and-Health Study (2005–2009) Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to reduce the dimensionality of the following contaminants: 9-polychlorinated biphenyl congeners; 7-organic pesticides; and 4-metal/metalloids. Following this data reduction technique, we estimated T2DM prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals using modified Poisson regression with robust error variance across derived principal components, adjusting for a priori covariates. For both First Nation adult males (n = 303) and females (n = 419), factor loadings showed dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and lead (Pb) highly loaded on the second principal component (PC) axis: DDT negatively loaded, and Pb positively loaded. T2DM was significantly associated with PC-2 across all adjusted models. Because PCA produces orthogonal axes, increasing PC-2 scores in the fully adjusted model for females and males showed (PR = 0.84; 95% CI 0.72, 0.98) and (PR = 0.78; 95% CI 0.62, 0.98), respectively. This cross-sectional study suggests that our observed association with T2DM is the result of DDT, and less likely the result of Pb exposure. Further, detectable levels of DDT among individuals may possibly contribute to disease etiology.

scholarly journals Community Journey of Change Through Relational Determinants of Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Cardinal ◽  
Debra Pepler
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Cycle Of Violence ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Prevention Programming

This article describes a model that maps Indigenous communities’ journeys from the cycle of violence arising from colonization to the circle of wellness through relational determinants of health. This model emerged from learning with Indigenous communities participating in research on violence prevention programming with the Canadian Red Cross. Indigenous communities have shown us that they are returning to a place of thriving by restoring relationality with land, culture, ceremony, and language. Therefore, the relational determinants of health comprise the foundational relationships that contribute to wellness. The Community Journey of Change model represents actions that communities can undertake in moving to wellness. The model has implications for policies, programs, and services for Indigenous communities as they begin to restore health and wellness.

scholarly journals Kina’muanej Knjanjiji’naq mut ntakotmnew tli’lnu’ltik (In the Foreign Language, Let us Teach our Children not to be Ashamed of Being Mi’kmaq)

in education ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
Ashley Julian ◽  
Ida Denny
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
English Language ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
First Nation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Full Immersion

Colonialism has assimilated and suppressed Indigenous languages across Turtle Island ( North America). A resurgence of language is needed for First Nation learners and educators and this resurgence is required if Indigenous people are going to revitalize, recover and reclaim Indigenous languages. The existing actions occurring within Indigenous communities contributing to language resurgence include immersion schools. Eskasoni First Nation opened its doors in September 2015 to a full immersion school separate from the English speaking educational centers. This move follows the introduction of Mi'kmaq immersion over ten years earlier within the English speaking school in the community. The Mi’kmaw immersion school includes the Ta’n L’nuey Etl-mawlukwatmumk Mi’kmaw Curriculum Development Centre that assists educators in translating educational curriculum from the dominant English language to Mi’kmaq. In this paper, stories are shared about the Eskasoni immersion program’s actions towards language resurgence through a desire-based lens, based on rich narratives from three Mi’kmaw immersion educators.

scholarly journals Looking back ahead: a short history of collaborative work with indigenous source communities at the Weltmuseum Wien

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-764
Author(s):  
Claudia Augustat ◽  
Wolfgang Kapfhammer
Keyword(s):  
Contact Zone ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Short History ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnographic Museums ◽  
History Of ◽  
European Museum ◽  
Looking Back

Abstract In the last few years, collaborating with representatives of indigenous communities became an important topic for European ethnographic museums. The Weltmuseum Wien (former Museum of Ethnology Vienna, Austria) adheres to this form of sharing cultural heritage. Its Brazilian collection offers rich opportunities to back up Amazonian cultures in their struggle for cultural survival. However, to establish collaborative work in a European museum on a sustained basis is still a difficult endeavor. The article will discuss the projects which have been realized during the past five years with several groups from Amazonia, such as the Warí, Kanoé, Makushí, Shipibo and Sateré-Mawé. Projects were carried out in Austria, Brazil, and Guyana and ranged from short visit to longer periods of co-curating an exhibition. As for the Museum, results are documented in the collection, in two exhibitions and in the accompanying catalogues. It is less clear what the indigenous communities might take away from such collaborations. It will be argued that museum collaborations can help establish a new contact zone, ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors’, in which members of heritage communities are able to break through the silence in the old contact zone and finally make their own voices heard.

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