Learning from Those Who Do: Land-Based Healing in a Mushkegowuk Community

Danto, David; Walsh, Russ; Sommerfeld, Jocelyn

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“…These intergenerational activities strengthened participants’ sense of social and cultural belonging with their Anishinaabe identity. All three generations experienced renewed relationships, pride, and community roles, which are important determinants of mental wellness for Indigenous youth, adults, and Elders [ 43 , 63 , 64 , 65 ]…”

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“…Land-based or ‘bush’ camps are becoming a recognized model in Indigenous healing and mental wellness, with increasing scholarly attention given to the development, implementation, and evaluation of these programs [ 34 , 41 , 42 ]. While land camps differ greatly in content and structure across diverse geographies and cultures, they typically emphasize intergenerational connections and the sharing of Indigenous knowledge for social support, confidence, and belonging [ 1 , 43 , 44 , 45 ]. Through the teaching of land-based skills, such as hunting, food preparation and ceremony, camps intend to provide the time, space, and relationships for participants to reconnect with their identities and the land [ 3 , 46 ].…”

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Reclaiming Land, Identity and Mental Wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory

Nightingale

Richmond

2022

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Indigenous peoples globally are pursuing diverse strategies to foster mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness by reclaiming and restoring their relationships to land. For Anishinaabe communities, the land is the source of local knowledge systems that sustain identities and foster mino-bimaadiziwin, that is, living in a good and healthy way. In July 2019, the community of Biigtigong Nishnaabeg in Ontario, Canada hosted a week-long land camp to reclaim Mountain Lake and reconnect Elders, youth and band staff to the land, history, and relationships of this place. Framed theoretically by environmental repossession, we explore the perceptions of 15 participating community members and examine local and intergenerational meanings of the camp for mental wellness. The findings show that the Mountain Lake camp strengthened social relationships, supported the sharing and practice of Anishinaabe knowledge, and fostered community pride in ways that reinforced the community’s Anishinaabe identity. By exploring the links between land reclamation, identity, and community empowerment, we suggest environmental repossession as a useful concept for understanding how land reconnection and self-determination can support Indigenous mental wellness.

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Reclaiming Land, Identity and Mental Wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory

Nightingale

Richmond

2022

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“…Indigenous storytelling and creative arts projects are examples of land-informed healing practices that may or may not take place on the land. Land-informed healing extends and reflects the belief that Indigenous language(s), knowledge(s), and culture(s) originate from the land [80,147], and that landscapes themselves "house" stories [148]. According to Okanagan scholar Jeanette Armstrong, "all Indigenous people's languages are generated by a 'precise geography', which informs how the world is viewed, approached and expressed verbally by its speakers through stories" (Armstrong as cited in Mussi [149] (p. 8)).…”

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Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

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Leeuw

Greenwood

2023

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Authored by a small team of settler and Indigenous researchers, all of whom are deeply involved in scholarship and activism interrogating ongoing processes of coloniality in lands now known to many as Canada, this paper critically examines “social” and grounded determinants of Indigenous mental health and wellness. After placing ourselves on the grounds from which we write, we begin by providing an overview of the social determinants of health (SDOH), a conceptual framework with deep roots in colonial Canada. Though important in pushing against biomedical framings of Indigenous health and wellness, we argue that the SDOH framework nevertheless risks re-entrenching deeply colonial ways of thinking about and providing health services for Indigenous people: SDOH, we suggest, do not ultimately reckon with ecological, environmental, place-based, or geographic determinants of health in colonial states that continue to occupy stolen land. These theoretical interrogations of SDOH provide an entry point to, first, an overview of Indigenous ways of understanding mental wellness as tethered to ecology and physical geography, and second, a collection of narrative articulations from across British Columbia: these sets of knowledge offer clear and unequivocal evidence, in the form of Indigenous voices and perspectives, about the direct link between land, place, and mental wellness (or a lack thereof). We conclude with suggestions for future research, policy, and health practice actions that move beyond the current SDOH model of Indigenous health to account for and address the grounded, land-based, and ecologically self-determining nature of Indigenous mental health and wellness.

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“…They have opened the way to widespread reflection and exciting innovations in research and representation. The explosion in practices of qualitative inquiry (Denzin & Lincoln, 2011; Jacobsen et al, 2014), the emergence of arts-based research (Leavy, 2019), and the recognition of indigenous ontologies and epistemologies (Danto & Zangeneh, 2022; Romm, 2014) are representative. However, even within the new wave of research practices, the assumption of an enduring target of inquiry—“the subject matter of my research”—remains robust.…”

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The social sciences as future forming

Gergen

2023

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The conception and practices of the social sciences are largely the product of a century past. We must now ask the question of whether these traditions adequately equip the sciences for dealing with the daunting global problems of today. Placed in particular question is the traditional focus of research on contemporaneous patterns, events, and conditions. In a world of rapid, globally rippling, and unpredictable change, the significance of such research is debatable. Given the perilous conditions of the world, a shift in the practices of social science is proposed, one that places in the vanguard of our pursuit, the active building of viable futures. Such a shift would favor practices of action research, generative theorizing, creating new forms of cultural life, and process-based education.

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Learning from Those Who Do: Land-Based Healing in a Mushkegowuk Community

Cited by 4 publications

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Reclaiming Land, Identity and Mental Wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory

Reclaiming Land, Identity and Mental Wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory

Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

The social sciences as future forming

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