Lecture 6: Finding Bundles: Re-imagining Health And WellBeing From A Decolonial Lens Flashcards
What are the 4 sacred medicines ( bundle items ) for many indigenous nations?
Tobacco, cedar, sweetgrass and sage.
Without including settler colonialism when discussing decolonization, what are we doing?
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.
What should decolonialisation be revolved around?
Land relationships. This is the basis of the most fundamental relationship.
What is decolonization as it relates to health?
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.
What does McGuire - Adam’s and Adam’s argue physical activity must be connected to?
Decolonization and efforts toward regeneration.
McGuire Adam’s reinforces that Health is an _____________ experience.
Embodied. All affects of settler colonialism is something we feel and carry in our bodies.
How is well-being interpreted when not being one with health?
As relationships. Not just with people but also with land.
What is the Sub-theme “worthy bodies” of PE
You need to be one of the strongest, quickest to be chosen and put on the pedestal.
Subtheme of “the why” in PE
People didn’t understand the point of gym class. “Why are we square dancing?”
what are the two representations of indigenous women’s bodies?
- strength and resilience
- ill health and settler colonial erasure
What is threatened by Indigenous women who are strong? What happens because of this?
The maintenance of settler colonialism. this requires the erasure of Indigenous people, specifically women.
Indigenous stories are a tool to prevent what?
Erasure
What are the effects of settler colonialism related to?
The experience of historical trauma, grief, ill health, and substance abuse.
Why were the Anishinaabeg women physically strong in the past?
Strength was an active part of living on the land and taking care of their families
What do stories challenge as they emphasize healing as we seek to decolonize?
Embodied settler colonialism.
What does indigenous feminist theory focus on?
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.
How did colonizers show dominance over indigenous women?
Through forced sex. Which also signified the dominance that was taking place on Ireland, and is rooted in colonial heteropatriarchal ideologies.
What is the nearly 1200 missing or murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada associated with?
The logic of settler colonialism.
Leanne Simpson argued that violence enacted against indigenous women is not a matter of individual assaults but?
“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 “.
How much more likely are indigenous females to die of homocide compared to non-indigenous women?
Eight times
How does veracini define settler colonialism?
A consistent structure that seeks to erase indigenous peoples in order to secure indigenous peoples territories.
What is the difference between settler colonialism and colonialism?
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.
Settler colonialism is an ongoing ___________________________________________.
Process that seeks to disempower, erase, and assimilate Indigenous peoples into the colonial institutions and systems.
What is related to the ill health that indigenous people experience?
The forced removal of bodies from the land
What initiates as protective factors to ill health?
Cultural identities and community-based programs
What does settler colonial eraser happen by?
External violence (like genocide and sexual violence) and internalized erasure like ill health.
What does Brave Heart contextualize as the effects of colonialism?
The historical traumas grief, ill health, and substance abuse experienced by many indigenous peoples.
What is crucial to identifying resistance strategies to ill health?
Indigenous Elder’S knowledge
What can be disrupted with indigenous practices of healing coupled with strategies for resilience?
The collective, cumulative, and inter/transgenerarational impacts of colonialism.
Remembering and connecting with indigenous stories is a recognized way to?
Address and heal from embodied settler colonialism
What is a sharing circle and why is it important?
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.
What must be seeked to challenge embodied settler colonialism?
Healing. Only after our personal healing is attended to, ancestral stories can be absorbed and applied in lives.
What disrupted transmission of knowledge about medicinal plants from the elder Anna?
Residential schools. They took her away from her grandmother, her teacher.
What are the symptoms of historical trauma as explained by Nicolai and Saus (2013)
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.
Researchers have noted the link between a survivors attendance at residential schools and the lasting reverberations to?
Not only their own health and wellbeing but to consecutive generations
True or false: research has shown no connection between the psychological distress of colonialism and chronic diseases, including cancer, heart disease and stroke.
False, there is connection. Taking care of grief is important.
True or false: indigenous peoples have always had experienced higher cancer incidences and morality than non-indigenous people.
False. They were, in historical literature, said to have had lower cancer incidences and morality. This is no longer.
What does the elders Anna and Gilbert say to start healing from embodied settler colonialism?
It starts from within and then it grows from there. You need to heal. Forgive and accept what happened.
The historical trauma brought on by settler colonialism is embodied and manifests in?
Substance abuse, a resolved grief, illness, and chronic discusses, which is directly connected to forced displacement from the land.
How did the elders heal from embodied settler colonialism?
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.
What did Brave Heart state indigenous peoples should do about embodied settler colonialism?
Foster a reattachment to traditional native values and a connection to pre-traumatic past.
How did a Cree elder say how Indigenous peoples were able to survive colonization?
Their ability to align with ancestral spirits and narratives.
Why was a women being physically strong important?
In order to survive and provide for their family
Who were the first teachers of hunting and trapping? And to teach children to be thankful, respectful, and gentle with the animals? Why?
Grandmothers. Because of their experience and wisdom as life givers.
How do elders stories challenge heteropatriarchal beliefs about women’s bodies?
The strong work women did back then on the daily is now considered a men’s job because woman are “too weak and interior.”
What is addressing embodied settler colonialism as taught by the elders?
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.
What happens when listening to ancestral stories?
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.
