Midterm Studying Part 1 Flashcards
Why Study INHS in Nursing
- Majority of Sask will be Indigenous
- Political Power
- Lower quality of health
Define Aboriginal
Generic term defined by the government to identify First Nations, Inuit and Metis people in Canada
What is Self- Identification?
Many Indigenous populations have their own Indigenous language-based names for themselves, their Indigenous Nations, tribal organizations, alliances, landmarks, life-ways and people.
What are Diverse Communities?
First Nations, Métis and Inuit people totalled 4.3% of the national population were spread over more than 600 communities, with distinctive cultures and languages (11 language groups, 65 dialects).
What is Identity?
Shaped by colonial and neo-colonial policy.
Define First Nations
First nations is a term that was used to replace “Indian/Band” in the 1980’s. This identity refers to people who are members and retain connections to one or more of the First Nation communities in Canada.
What is Status / Treaty?
A legally defined identity embedded within the Indian Act
It refers to all Indigenous people who are the descendants of the Nations that entered into Treaty with the (British) “Crown”
What is Metis?
Refers to the mixed blood descendants of European and Indigenous people.
What is Inuit?
Culturally and linguistically similar people living in the Arctic regions.
What is colonization?
Action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
What is post-colonization?
An intellectual direction (also called an “era” or the “post-colonial theory”) that exists since around the middle of the 20th century. Found in sciences concerning history, literature and politics, culture and identity.
Define decolonization
An intellectual process that is the deconstruction of colonized perceptions and attitudes of power and oppression that were adopted during the time of colonialism.
What is the conceptual framework of Indigenous Health?
Care vs Duty
What is duty?
Morality, Generalized, impartial, obligation, public, militaristic, (Masculine)
What is care?
Specific, contextual, particular, partial, proximal, private, relationship (Feminine/Feminist)
What is Critical feminism?
A movement to end oppression
What are the 4 waves of feminism?
Wave # 1: Activism, freedom of expression (late 1800’s)
Wave #2: More radical, anti-war, growing awareness of oppression around the world (160-1990).
Wave #3 (mid-1990’s): Post-colonial thinking, rejecting generalizability. (subject vs object debate); challenging boundaries.
Wave # 4 (currently): Issues of intersectionality, race, sexuality, color. Contextual and experiential. Recognition of difference.
What is standpoint on indigenous feminism?
-The impacts of colonialism and patriarchy have become fixed within communities and how they must be challenged
-Indigenous people do not share a single culture; they do have a common history
Understand experience across time & place
What is Social Contructionism?
Concerned with the ways we think about and use categories to structure our experience and analysis of the world (experiences, feelings and thinking).
What is nurture?
Social ideas and categories (including stereotypes) are socially constructed and then accepted as reality, despite the facts.
What is Nature?
Genetics or Nature determines characteristics not social environment.
“Indigenous Worldview’s”
Knowledge is holistic, cyclic, and dependent upon relationships and connections to living and non-living beings and entities.
There are many truths, and these truths are dependent upon individual experiences.
Everything is alive. (rock, water, tree, dirt, land, animals)
All things are equal.
The land is sacred. (take care of the environment as it will take care of us)
The relationship between people and the spiritual world is important.
Human beings are least important in the world.
What are creation stories?
Explain how their people, and their world, came into existence.
What is the Clovis Model and Land-Bridge model?
Land-Bridge Theory came from the discovery of spear points near Clovis, New Mexico between 1929 and 1937, that matched the kinds of artifacts found in Beringia.
The Land Bridge Theory proposes that people migrated from Siberia to Alaska across a land bridge that spanned the current day Bering Strait.
First Americans migrated into North America from Asia more than 14 to 20 thousand
Archaeologists long thought the first Americans were the Clovis people, who were said to have reached the New World some 13,000 years ago from northern Asia.
