Lecture 1: Honouring Indigenous Experiences and Worldviews of Health Flashcards
Health is a ______ construct
Colonial
Four sections on the medicine wheel
Balance of body, mind, emotions and spirit
What does the indigenous approaches to health recognize?
The healing journey. There is no beginning or end. Being on a journey of restoring balance.
What are the 8 stages of the life cycle?
Infant, toddler, child, youth, young adult, parent, grandparent and elder / traditional teacher
How do the seven phases of life differ from the eight stages?
The seven phases specifically focus on the spiritual journey of a person and emphasizes the journey of self-discovery and fulfilling one’s life purpose within an indigenous framework.
What are the seven phases of life?
The good life, the fast life, the wondering life, the stages of truth, planting and planning, doing, and the elder and giving back life
What dues each phase of life mean for us?
It is for our roles, responsibilities and purposes. It’s about finding our beliefs and value systems.
What is spiritual health understood by Brant-Castellano?
- sustained relationships with family and friends
- enlarged through reconnecting to land
- spread by service to community
- inspired by joy and energy of children
- undermined by anything that assaults/affects community vitality
What does all our relations means?
We are all part of something greater than ourselves and we are all connected whether we understand it or don’t.
What is successfully negotiating a holistic approach in life?
The need to continually maintain harmony and balance in all things
What is Dr. Nadines main take away of being Canada’s first indigenous surgeon?
Being the first shouldn’t mean to be the only
What is the best determinant of indigenous health described by prof. Day
Culture
What happens if we do not understand over histories?
We will repeat them.
What is the greatest opportunity for the improvement of the health outcomes of indigenous communities and nations?
The repositioning, revaluing, and reinvigoration of traditional indigenous healing practices and concepts, both in the education of health professionals and in the delivery of health and health services
Critical elements of indigenous health
- Land as health
- Language as health
- Relationships as health
What is the best protection of indigenous knowledge as explained by steinhauer and lamouche?
Language
What happens when we translate to English?
We lose meaning, the culture, and the teachings
The key message of “The good path” article
Relationships are health
The way back to good health is? As explained by steinhauer and lamouche
Through the restoration of the relationships between land, language and culture.
What are reciprocal relations about?
Acknowledge and make space for diverse ways of knowing, doing and being to exist equally
What does Dr. Nadine say the impact is?
Not the first, but the people who follow
What are the teachings as described by Marcia Anderson-DeCoteau?
Wisdom, humility, respect, love, bravery and truth and honesty
The good path: what could repeat the cycle of colonization and assimilation?
If government-led health service organizations and training institutions continue to deliver human services and training to indigenous peoples without a deeper understandingof the indigenous connections
The good path: what is The goal of The indigenous health sciences programma?
To create healthy and whole individuals Who are able to participate more fully in their academic success.
the good path: what is the greatest opportunity for the improvement of health outcomes of indigenous communities and nations?
the repositioning, revaluing, and reinvigoration of traditional indigenous healing practices and concepts, both in the education of health professionals and in the delivery of health and health services
the good path: what does the services that are not sensitive to the history, needs and perspectives of indigenous individuals and communities only perpetuate?
assimilation and colonization
the good path: Indigenous health training is insufficient why?
They base it off of Western or Eurocentric models of training which does not include a spiritual component. With indigenous program design, delivery and evaluation, understanding is based in meaning as opposed to measurement and in process as opposed to outcome
the good path: Delivery of human services and training to Indigenous peoples without a deeper understanding of the Indigenous connections to ceremony, protocols, language, spiritual teachings, community, ancient teaching stories, and the impact of history is more likely to further promote the process of ____________ and ____________
colonization and assimilation
The good path: for students to understand their knowledge to a deeper understanding, what must they commit to learning first?
the language
the good path: What must happen for Indigenous students to consider further training in the health sciences?
they must be willing to endure extended periods of self-imposed exile from their homes, communities, and territories. Reduced opportunities to engage in their traditions and languages
the good path: learning and understanding our culture and history is important to understanding ______
health
the good path: students need to focus on ________ and _________ for themselves, especially if they want to help others
well-being and health
the good path: Knowledge does not and cannot exist without ____ between at least two beings (Makokis & Bodor, 2014, p. 65)
Relationship
the good path: what is the foundation of the IHSP program based on?
ceremony and the establishment and strengthening of relationships between students, instructors, Elders, Healers, community, and the land.
the good path: what is the goal of the IHSP
to assist students to become whole, healthy people with the skills, abilities and strengths to provide health services and healing to communities and Nations
Institutionalized physical education in residential schools was a means to?
Combat poor health
What is a problem of sport histories and indigenous culture?
Lack of representation of indigenous sport history
Sport is a site of colonization but also a potential site of?
Decolonization and self-determination
Tom longboat allows us to look at sport as not just training the body but also as?
Acts of physical culture
What did prof. Day define resilience as?
For many people it is unhealthy. it means a constant relationship with crisis, having to overcome something.
Multifaceted meanings of physical activity in a broader concept
- Sport, exercise, leisure activities
- Household chores
- Land-based PA: fishing, building
- Traditional games (stick pull)
How does the royal commission on aboriginal peoples define self-determination?
“Looking at our desires and our aspirations of where we want to go and being given the chance to attain that… for life itself, for existence itself, for nationhood itself…”
McGuire Adams states: engaging in PA with the intent to regain physicality to directly challenge our health disparities is an act of ________.
Decolonization
What does having sports that decolonize do?
Counter hegemonic sporting practices and creates sites to pass on culture/inter-cultural learning. Include cultural as the basis of participation.
Our way of life: what does ORID structure stand for?
objective, reflective, interpretive and decisional
Our way of life: what are many traditional practices rooted in?
survival skills. ex., stick pull, makes people stronger in catching fish
Our way of life: interrelationships alludes to ____
spiritual health
Our way of life: what 5 subthemes support the cultural identity theme
- respecting your elders
- passing on the knowledge
- inclusiveness
- land
- traditional practices
Our way of life: health and wellness are a _____ rather than individual responsibility
collective
Our way of life: physical activity is cultural activity, and cultural promotion is health ________, all grounded within Dene culture, tradition, land, and wellness
promotion
