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  • Global Indigenous Health: Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future
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  • Edited by Robert Henry, Amanda LaVallee, Nancy Van Styvendale, and Robert Alexander Innes
  • 2018
  • Published by: University of Arizona Press
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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 to 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.

Contributors:

Sharon Leslie Acoose
Seth Adema
Peter Butt
John E. Charlton
Colleen Anne Dell
Debra Dell
Paul DePasquale
Judy A. Dow
C. Randy Duncan
Carina Fiedeldey-Van Dijk
Barbara Fornssler
Chelsea Gabel
Eleanor Louise Hadden
Laura Hall
Robert Henry
Carol Hopkins
Robert Alexander Innes
Simon Lambert
Amanda LaVallee
Josh Levy
Rachel Loewen Walker
David B. MacDonald
Peter Menzies
Christopher Mushquash
David Mykota
Nancy Poole
Alicia Powell
Ioana Radu
Margo Rowan
Mark F. Ruml
Caroline L. Tait
Lisa Tatonetti
Margaretha Uttjek
Nancy Van Styvendale

Table of Contents

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-2
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  1. Introduction
  2. Robert Henry, Amanda LaVallee, Nancy Van Styvendale, and Robert Alexander Innes
  3. pp. 3-24
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  1. Part I. Ethics and History
  2. pp. 25-26
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  1. 1. Indigenous Health in the Aftermath of Genocide: Healing and Reconciliation After the Indian Residential Schools Experience in Canada
  2. David B. MacDonald
  3. pp. 27-44
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  1. 2. Helping His Brothers and Sisters Heal: Arthur Solomon and Penal Reform in Canada
  2. Seth Adema
  3. pp. 45-60
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  1. 3. BCG Tuberculosis Vaccine Experiment on Southeast Alaska Natives: A Medical Experiment Without Informed Consent
  2. Eleanor Louise Hadden
  3. pp. 61-75
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  1. 4. Understanding the Vermont Eugenics Survey and Its Impacts Today
  2. Judy A. Dow
  3. pp. 76-96
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  1. Part II. Environmental and Ecological Health
  2. pp. 97-98
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  1. 5. Introduced Biotechnologies, Traditional Lands, and Indigenous Well-Being: The Expanding Assemblage of Small-Scale Māori Horticulture Through the “Indigenous Turn”
  2. Simon Lambert
  3. pp. 99-118
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  1. 6. USDA Foods, Indigenous Health, and Self-Sufficiency on Pohnpei, Micronesia
  2. Josh Levy
  3. pp. 119-132
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  1. 7. Manitoba Hydro’s Promotional Materials as Colonialist Discourse
  2. Paul DePasquale
  3. pp. 133-148
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  1. Part III. Impacts of Colonial Violence and Indigenous Kinship
  2. pp. 149-150
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  1. 8. Child Welfare: A Social Determinant of Health for Canadian First Nations and Métis Children
  2. Caroline L. Tait, Robert Henry, and Rachel Loewen Walker
  3. pp. 151-173
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  1. 9. They Stole My Thunder: Indian Women and Post-Incarceration Health
  2. Sharon Leslie Acoose and John E. Charlton
  3. pp. 174-192
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  1. 10. Preventive Efforts to Address Violence Against Sámi Women and Children
  2. Margaretha Uttjek
  3. pp. 193-210
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  1. 11. Uschiniichisuu Futures: Healing, Empowerment, and Agency Among the Chisasibi Cree Youth
  2. Ioana Radu
  3. pp. 211-234
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  1. Part IV. Indigenous Knowledge and Health Activism
  2. pp. 235-236
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  1. 12. Addressing Inequalities: Understanding Indigenous Health Policy in Urban Ontario, Canada
  2. Alicia Powell and Chelsea Gabel
  3. pp. 237-256
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  1. 13. Wic̨ozani Wašte (Good Life): Arthur Amiotte’s Model of the Life Cycle / Ceremonial Cycle and Healing
  2. Mark F. Ruml
  3. pp. 257-274
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  1. 14. Carole laFavor’s Indigenous Feminism and Early HIV/AIDS Activism: Health Sovereignty in the 1980s and 1990s
  2. Lisa Tatonetti
  3. pp. 275-294
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  1. 15. Traveling the Möbius Strip: The Influence of Two-Eyed Seeing in the Development of Indigenous Research Accomplices
  2. Barbara Fornssler et al.
  3. pp. 295-316
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 317-326
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 327-342
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