Illness Is a Weapon: Indigenous Identity and Enduring Afflictions

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Index 205 Abbott, Kathy, 183n4 Aboriginal Health Worker Program community control and, 139–40 Deborah and, 74–75 history of, 9, 123–28 in Lajamanu, 17, 121–22, 128–33, 139–40, 144 self-determination and, 121 social relationships and, 90, 131–32, 159–60 Aboriginal people food and, 32–39 health and, 1–2, 4–7, 32, 149–50 health beliefs and, 8–9, 82–84, 98–99, 163–65 rations and, 35–37 welfare payments and, 37–39 See also bush medicines; ngangkari (Aboriginal healers) Adams, Vincanne, 43 Adele (Warlpiri Woman), 39 Alan (Warlpiri child), 66, 69, 70 alcohol, 23, 42, 70–71 Alex (Warlpiri man), 59 alien abduction narratives, 78–81 Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle “Little Children Are Sacred,” 11, 25, 166 antibiotics, 108, 172 assimilation, 7–8, 35–37 Austin-Broos, Diane J., 61 autonomy, 146–47 Bailie, Ross, 155 Bashford, Alison, 7 Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (formerly Batchelor College), 127 Ben-Tovim, David, 136–37 Berndt, Catherine, 8 Betty (Warlpiri woman), 20, 96 Bill (allied health service provider), 78, 81 Bill (Warlpiri man), 87 biomedicine vs. Aboriginal health beliefs, 8–9, 82–84, 98–99, 163–65 as culture of no culture, 13 George and, 89–92 physical illness and, 19–20 black pox (Native pox), 7, 38, 173 Bolivia, 25–26 Brady, Maggie, 162 Brian (nurse), 103, 134, 148, 170 Briggs, Charles, 155–56 Bruce (Warlpiri man), 53 Burnett, Rod, 133 bush foods, 40–44. See also gathering; hunting bush honey (ngarlu), 40–41, 56–57 206 IllNess Is A WeApoN bush medicines Aboriginal Health Worker Program and, 125 bush foods as, 41 George and, 85 vs. pharmaceuticals, 25 use of, 18–19, 109–10 bush tomato (Solanum chippendalei), 55 Butler, Judith, 119 Canada, 2–3 Carl (Warlpiri man) kuku and, 59–60 on KWHB, 145 nguwa and, 66, 67, 68, 70 on resident doctors, 139 Carnegie, David, 35 Caroline (nurse) Aboriginal Health Workers and, 130 on Aboriginal people, 107, 146, 172 on KWHB, 140 on noncompliance, 101, 102–4, 110 Catherine (Warlpiri woman), 4–5, 39, 114, 115 Cawte, John on Aboriginal health beliefs, 8 on illness, 61 on maparnpa, 181n5 on nguwa, 66, 69, 165 chicken pox, 3 children health and, 171–72 kuku and, 76 medications and, 108 nguwa and, 70 nutrition and, 37–38 sexual abuse and, 11–12, 25 cholera, 13 Christen, Kimberley, 144 Christianity, 61 Christopher (Warlpiri man), 41–42, 51 chronic illness confrontations with nurses and, 4 food and, 32–34, 41, 43–44 noncompliance and, 21, 105–9, 111 spiritual well-being and, 71–72 See also diabetes; hypertension citizenship, 8 Cleland, John Burton, 7 Clements, Forrest E., 61 Collmann, Jeff, 14 colonialism child sexual abuse and, 25 medicine and, 3, 5–6 community controlled health center(s) Lajamanu Health Center as, 24, 121–22, 137–48 overview, 134–37 self-determination and, 9, 162 compliance, 7–8, 100–101. See also noncompliance Correy, Simon, 14–15 Cowlishaw, Gillian, 14, 116–17, 118 Crandon-Malamud, Libbet, 25–26, 65, 171 cross-cultural training, 115, 165–71 cultural exceptionalism, 8–9, 26, 121. See also self-determination culture health and, 13–14, 165–71 race and, 12–13 Curtin Indigenous Research Centre, 130 Cuvier, Georges, 6 207 INdex Daisy (Warlpiri woman), 47, 48 Damien, Howard, 170 Danny (Warlpiri man), 112–13 Deborah (Warlpiri woman), 73–75 demand sharing, 34, 48–50, 159 Desjarlais, Robert, 27–28 Devanesen, Dayalan, 8–9, 124–25 Devitt, Jeannie, 99 diabetes bush foods and, 40–42 healing abilities and, 71 health education and, 157–58 Indigenous people and, 3, 43 in Lajamanu, 33 Martin and, 1, 21 ngangkari and, 87 Northern Territory and, 32 symptoms of, 105–6 as white disease, 40 Dixon, Mervyn, 40, 180n1 domestic violence, 73–74, 155 Donald (Warlpiri man), 59, 60, 66, 69, 70 Dorothy (nurse), 90, 94–95, 169 Durie, Mason, 120 Durrheim, Kevin, 12 Dussart, Francoise, 62 Eastwell, Harry D., 8 Elkin, A. P., 181n10 empowerment, 120–22. See also Aboriginal Health Worker Program; community controlled health center(s) environment, 152–56 Esterman, Adrian, 136–37 Ethan (Warlpiri man), 81 Evaneshko, Veronica, 182n1 Farmer, Paul, 13 Fassin, Didier, 3 Ferguson, James, 151 Flick, Barbara, 10, 163 food Aboriginal people and, 32–39 health and, 32–33 health education and, 157 Indigenous people and, 32–33, 43 kardiya and, 39–40 in Lajamanu, 33–34, 44–51, 157–58 race and, 57...