International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 13, no. 2, Death and Dying, December 2018, pp. 48-60
Description
Author critiques the colonial framing of death and dying as a medical event; argues for using the teachings contained in the Medicine Wheel and the Two Row Wampum as way to restore respect, balance, and spirit, and view death as an interconnected part of life, community, and culture.
Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC)
Description
Results of project showed that the Indigenous perspective was more wholistic than the mainstream and encompassed community safety, environment, beliefs, kinship patterns, social arrangements, and norms of individual, familial and social conduct. Includes case study of a project which failed to move forward because researchers refused to sign a Research Collaboration Agreement.
Related material: Ganohonyohk Tool.
Body Image, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 318-327
Description
Women identified the following themes: accepting everything about your body; who you are and how you show it; connection to culture; being healthy; and being thankful to be Indigenous.
Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
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Author/Creator
Selena Couture
Description
Chapter in Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas edited by Helen Gilbert and Charlotte Gleghorn.
Looks at tourist encounters and knowledge transmission.
Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 42, January-February 2014, pp. 9-18
Description
Interviews urban American Indian women about their experiences. Reports cultural identity is a core part to defining self and cultural connectedness was something that was either there or not.
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 40-58
Description
Describes the polluted state of the Santa Ana River in southern California and how it came to be so. Considers traditional perspectives of the Acjachemen and Tongva tribes regarding "guests" as a way to re-center a Indigenous view of the land.
Native Social Work Journal, vol. 7, Promising Practices in Mental Health: Emerging Paradigms for Aboriginal Social Work Practices, November 2010, pp. 87-107
Description
Discusses the role of an Elder in counseling sessions with Aboriginal clinicians trained in Western healing intervention, providing insight into their problems both from an Aboriginal perspective as well as from a western clinical perspective.