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Global Indigenous Health

Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future
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Indigenous peoples globally have a keen understanding of their health and wellness through traditional knowledge systems. In the past, traditional understandings of health often intersected with individual, community, and environmental relationships of well-being, creating an equilibrium of living well. However, colonization and the imposition of colonial policies regarding health, justice, and the environment have dramatically impacted, Indigenous peoples' health. Building on Indigenous knowledge systems of health and critical decolonial theories, the volume's contributors—who are academic and community researchers from Canada, the United States, Sweden, and New Zealand—weave a narrative of the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples' health. The authors explore issues of Indigenous health within four broad themes: ethics and history, environmental and ecological health, impacts of colonial violence on kinship, and Indigenous knowledge and health activism. Chapters also explore how Indigenous peoples are responding to both the health crises in their communities and the ways for non-Indigenous people to engage in building positive health outcomes with Indigenous communities. Global Indigenous Health is unique and timely as it deals with the historical and ongoing traumas associated with colonization and colonialism, understanding Indigenous concepts of health and healing, and ways of moving forward for health equity.

Author Biography:

Robert Henry is a M�tis assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary. Amanda LaVallee is a Red River M�tis postdoctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan. Nancy Van Styvendale is an associate professor of Native studies at the University of Alberta. Robert Alexander Innes is a member of Cowessess First Nation and an associate professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
Release date NZ
October 30th, 2018
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Colleen Anne Dell
  • Contributions by John E. Charlton
  • Contributions by Paul DePasquale
  • Contributions by Peter Butt
  • Contributions by Seth Adema
  • Contributions by Sharon L. Acoose
  • Edited by Amanda LaVallee
  • Edited by Nancy Van Styvendale
  • Edited by Robert Alexander Innes
  • Edited by Robert Henry
Illustrations
11 Black & white illustrations, 2 tables
Pages
328
Dimensions
160x235x25
ISBN-13
9780816538065
Product ID
27847426

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