[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Description
Hands-on activities were developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment. Designed to foster a closer spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical connection to Indigenous culture.
Related Material: Facilitator's Handbook
[Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention in Addictions Treatment Project?]
Description
Designed to provide step-by-step guidance for helping clients think about how Indigenous culture can improve their well-being. Developed to work with Indigenous Wellness Framework, which resulted from the project Honouring Our Strengths: Indigenous Culture as Intervention.
Related Material: Activity Guide
Guidelines based on two principles: "Cause No Harm" and "Free, Prior and Informed Consent". Included are guidelines for: Indigenous peoples and knowledge holders to ensure knowledge is protected in collaborations; agencies and researchers wanting to secure access and use traditional knowledges; and individuals reviewing grant proposals that incorporate Indigenous knowledge.
Related material: Annotated Bibliography: Examples of Traditional Knowledges in Climate Research
University of Saskatchewan Library Dean's Research Lecture
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Cheryl A. Metoyer
Description
Speaker discusses Indigenous ways of knowing and worldviews, and how they informed the subject headings developed during the Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus Project.
Duration: 35:40.
University of Saskatchewan Library Dean's Research Lecture, 2012.
Developed to provide a brief introduction to historical and contemporary circumstances which have produced negative health outcomes for Aboriginal individuals and communities, as well as an appreciation of their resilience and strength despite centuries of discrimination.
Database used for tracking people and community changes using population, education, culture, labour force, wellbeing, income, government, and housing categories. Sources include Northwest Territories Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, vol. 35, no. 1, Special Issue on Aboriginal Health Information, April 2014, pp. 16-23
Description
Comments on the application of Indigenous Knowledge Translation (KT) approaches to health information work and practice, and identifies specific strategies for implementing TK activities in Indigenous contexts.
Study examines the failure of education system to benefit Aboriginal people based on results which display conflicts with moral and cultural values of the students.