Lecture 6: Finding Bundles: Re-imagining Health And WellBeing From A Decolonial Lens

Question 1

What are the 4 sacred medicines ( bundle items ) for many indigenous nations?

Answer 1

Tobacco, cedar, sweetgrass and sage.

Question 2

Without including settler colonialism when discussing decolonization, what are we doing?

Answer 2

Default to Western worldviews or to colonial worldviews as being the “norm” or status quo. How we are educated is mostly through a colonial perspective. Ex. PE is a very colonial education and was used used in residential schools for assimilation.

Question 3

What should decolonialisation be revolved around?

Answer 3

Land relationships. This is the basis of the most fundamental relationship.

Question 4

What is decolonization as it relates to health?

Answer 4

Decolonization journey to reclaim what has bees lost or degraded because of colonialism. it may include but is not limited to connections to traditional healing, cultures, and ceremonies.

Question 5

What does McGuire - Adam’s and Adam’s argue physical activity must be connected to?

Answer 5

Decolonization and efforts toward regeneration.

Question 6

McGuire Adam’s reinforces that Health is an _____________ experience.

Answer 6

Embodied. All affects of settler colonialism is something we feel and carry in our bodies.

Question 7

How is well-being interpreted when not being one with health?

Answer 7

As relationships. Not just with people but also with land.

Question 8

What is the Sub-theme “worthy bodies” of PE

Answer 8

You need to be one of the strongest, quickest to be chosen and put on the pedestal.

Question 9

Subtheme of “the why” in PE

Answer 9

People didn’t understand the point of gym class. “Why are we square dancing?”

Question 10

what are the two representations of indigenous women’s bodies?

Answer 10

1. strength and resilience
2. ill health and settler colonial erasure

Question 11

What is threatened by Indigenous women who are strong? What happens because of this?

Answer 11

The maintenance of settler colonialism. this requires the erasure of Indigenous people, specifically women.

Question 12

Indigenous stories are a tool to prevent what?

Answer 12

Erasure

Question 13

What are the effects of settler colonialism related to?

Answer 13

The experience of historical trauma, grief, ill health, and substance abuse.

Question 14

Why were the Anishinaabeg women physically strong in the past?

Answer 14

Strength was an active part of living on the land and taking care of their families

Question 15

What do stories challenge as they emphasize healing as we seek to decolonize?

Answer 15

Embodied settler colonialism.

Question 16

What does indigenous feminist theory focus on?

Answer 16

Understanding how indigenous women have an inherent connection to land, and they have also sought to uncover how colonizers enact violence against indigenous women because of this connection.

Question 17

How did colonizers show dominance over indigenous women?

Answer 17

Through forced sex. Which also signified the dominance that was taking place on Ireland, and is rooted in colonial heteropatriarchal ideologies.

Question 18

What is the nearly 1200 missing or murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada associated with?

Answer 18

The logic of settler colonialism.

Question 19

Leanne Simpson argued that violence enacted against indigenous women is not a matter of individual assaults but?

Answer 19

“A symptom of settler colonialism, white supremacy and genocide. And further gender violence and murdered and missing women are symptoms of the dispossession of indigenous peoples from our territories “.

Question 20

How much more likely are indigenous females to die of homocide compared to non-indigenous women?

Answer 20

Eight times

Question 21

How does veracini define settler colonialism?

Answer 21

A consistent structure that seeks to erase indigenous peoples in order to secure indigenous peoples territories.

Question 22

What is the difference between settler colonialism and colonialism?

Answer 22

In Settler colonialism, settlers intend to take the land as their new home, which works in tandem with asserting settler power and authority on indigenous lands.

Question 23

Settler colonialism is an ongoing ___________________________________________.

Answer 23

Process that seeks to disempower, erase, and assimilate Indigenous peoples into the colonial institutions and systems.

Question 24

What is related to the ill health that indigenous people experience?

Answer 24

The forced removal of bodies from the land

Question 25

What initiates as protective factors to ill health?

Answer 25

Cultural identities and community-based programs

Question 26

What does settler colonial eraser happen by?

Answer 26

External violence (like genocide and sexual violence) and internalized erasure like ill health.

Question 27

What does Brave Heart contextualize as the effects of colonialism?

Answer 27

The historical traumas grief, ill health, and substance abuse experienced by many indigenous peoples.

Question 28

What is crucial to identifying resistance strategies to ill health?

Answer 28

Indigenous Elder’S knowledge

Question 29

What can be disrupted with indigenous practices of healing coupled with strategies for resilience?

Answer 29

The collective, cumulative, and inter/transgenerarational impacts of colonialism.

Question 30

Remembering and connecting with indigenous stories is a recognized way to?

Answer 30

Address and heal from embodied settler colonialism

Question 31

What is a sharing circle and why is it important?

Answer 31

A sharing circle is where indigenous people sit in a circle to engage in a discussion regarding a topic, each person can talk about the subject while the other participants listen. They are important because they are appropriate methods of data collection when engaging in indigenous research.

Question 32

What must be seeked to challenge embodied settler colonialism?

Answer 32

Healing. Only after our personal healing is attended to, ancestral stories can be absorbed and applied in lives.

Question 33

What disrupted transmission of knowledge about medicinal plants from the elder Anna?

Answer 33

Residential schools. They took her away from her grandmother, her teacher.

Question 34

What are the symptoms of historical trauma as explained by Nicolai and Saus (2013)

Answer 34

Somatic, psychological, physical, and spiritual problems relating to unrest solved grief caused by colonization and presenting as high rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviour, substance abuse, disrupted relationships, diagnosable disorders and various other symptoms.

Question 35

Researchers have noted the link between a survivors attendance at residential schools and the lasting reverberations to?

Answer 35

Not only their own health and wellbeing but to consecutive generations

Question 36

True or false: research has shown no connection between the psychological distress of colonialism and chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease and stroke.

Answer 36

False, there is connection. Taking care of grief is important.

Question 37

True or false: indigenous peoples have always had experienced higher cancer incidences and morality than non-indigenous people.

Answer 37

False. They were, in historical literature, said to have had lower cancer incidences and morality. This is no longer.

Question 38

What does the elders Anna and Gilbert say to start healing from embodied settler colonialism?

Answer 38

It starts from within and then it grows from there. You need to heal. Forgive and accept what happened.

Question 39

The historical trauma brought on by settler colonialism is embodied and manifests in?

Answer 39

Substance abuse, a resolved grief, illness, and chronic discusses, which is directly connected to forced displacement from the land.

Question 40

How did the elders heal from embodied settler colonialism?

Answer 40

The elders showed resiliency, and chose to heal through connecting with culture, forgiveness and gaining sobriety, and this healing starts from within; as embodied settler colonialism becomes internalized, so does healing.

Question 41

What did Brave Heart state indigenous peoples should do about embodied settler colonialism?

Answer 41

Foster a reattachment to traditional native values and a connection to pre-traumatic past.

Question 42

How did a Cree elder say how Indigenous peoples were able to survive colonization?

Answer 42

Their ability to align with ancestral spirits and narratives.

Question 43

Why was a women being physically strong important?

Answer 43

In order to survive and provide for their family

Question 44

Who were the first teachers of hunting and trapping? And to teach children to be thankful, respectful, and gentle with the animals? Why?

Answer 44

Grandmothers. Because of their experience and wisdom as life givers.

Question 45

How do elders stories challenge heteropatriarchal beliefs about women’s bodies?

Answer 45

The strong work women did back then on the daily is now considered a men’s job because woman are “too weak and interior.”

Question 46

What is addressing embodied settler colonialism as taught by the elders?

Answer 46

Not just a matter of remembering ancestral stories, but rather first addressing the foundation of disconnection and then resist embodied settler colonialisms through remembering and applying stories of strength in our lives.

Question 47

What happens when listening to ancestral stories?

Answer 47

Enacting a process of personal decolonization and resilience; healing and coming to know bodies as strong by listening and applying the stories of the physical strength of ancestors in everyday life.