Enhancing Indigenous Well-Being: Applying Human Rights and Trauma-Informed Perspectives with Native Americans

Weaver, Hilary N.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16395-2_4

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“…Additionally, investment in the community, advocating, and giving back is demonstrated through this inquiry informing the development of a culturally and community-based intervention that addresses sexual and family violence and substance abuse in communities, while promoting family resilience and wellness [ 52 ]. These strategies further fulfill the call for trauma-informed research [ 70 ] as they align with the five principles of trauma-informed practice: safety (honor confidentiality, be transparent), collaboration (commit long-term, collaborate), choice (enable self-determination, listen), trustworthiness (build a positive reputation, spend time in the community), and empowerment (reinforce cultural strengths, invest resources) [ 29 ]. For a full description on how these strategies were integrated in this study, see McKinley, Figley, et al, 2019 [ 50 ].…”

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“…Cultural humility requires researchers to both deeply understand structural oppression and maintain an unwavering commitment to social justice [ 32 ]. Further, practitioners and researchers must adopt a trauma-informed perspective to work with Indigenous communities effectively and ethically [ 70 ]. The FHORT practices cultural humility [ 32 ] and accomplishes the primary goal of trauma-informed research–recognizing the trauma [ 29 ] by highlighting historical oppression as a focal point.…”

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“You Can Get Away with Anything Here… No Justice at All”— Sexual Violence Against U.S. Indigenous Females and Its Consequences

McKinley

Knipp

2021

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Sexual violence against Indigenous women has long been used as a tool of colonial violence and conquest. As a contemporary form of historical oppression that may drive associated health and mental health inequities, Indigenous women in the United States experience sexual violence at greater levels than the general population and at and twice the rate of Indigenous men. We use the Indigenous framework of historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT) to understand Indigenous women’s experiences of sexual violence and how it differentiates across ecological outcomes related to health and wellness. This exploratory sequential multimethod study with 563 participants ( n = 436 qualitative and n = 127 quantitative survey participants) qualitatively explores how Indigenous peoples describe sexual violence and quantitatively investigates key differences across ecological outcomes of wellness related to sexual violence, including alcohol use and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Results indicated that all participants (100 percent) who reported sexual violence were women. Thematic analysis of qualitative results revealed the themes related to familial, non-familial, and the historical oppression of a lack of accountability for perpetrators. Quantitative t -Tests results revealed that experiencing sexual violence was associated with significant differences across ecological dimensions of wellness including (a) structural: higher historical oppression, historical loss, oppression, and discrimination; (b) relational: higher adverse childhood experiences and stressful life events and lower family resilience and social support; (c) spiritual: lower spiritual-well-being and life satisfaction; and (d) psychological/behavioral: higher levels of alcohol use, PTSD, and lower levels of psychological resilience. Thus, sexual violence profoundly affected Indigenous women.

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