The determinants of planetary health: an Indigenous consensus perspective

Climate change and COVID-19: Assessing the vulnerability and resilience of U.S. Indigenous communities to syndemic crises

“…The lessons gleaned from the excerpts provided by Indigenous scholars, knowledge-holders, and tribal-serving professionals support the call for the epistemological-pluralism (an approach that “recognizes that, in any given research context, there may be several valuable ways of knowing, and that accommodating this plurality can lead to more successful integrated study”) espoused by Redvers et al [ 9 , 53 ] The examples from the Pala, Navajo, and Swinomish Peoples demonstrate that Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing offer important lessons rooted in a close relationship and interconnectedness with the land. Further, these context-specific examples of Indigenous knowledge applied to public health threats in the form of COVID-19 and climate change point to a need for an assets-based approach that aims to mobilize and harness the skills, resources, and talents of individuals and communities.…”

“…However, Indigenous knowledge systems that promote contextual, community-based, and collective health determinant framing prompted a response to the pandemic that resulted in these communities having the highest first-dose and full vaccination rates of any racial or ethnic group in the US. [ 8 , 9 ] Still, COVID-19 case incidence among US Indigenous Peoples rose to 3.5 times that among White persons and Indigenous Peoples were nearly twice as likely to die from COVID-19 compared to non-Hispanic Whites. [10] …”

Reclaiming Indigenous Health in the US: Moving beyond the Social Determinants of Health

“…Unique determinants are particular to each Indigenous nation, such as culture, use of natural resources for health and healing, traditional practices and ceremonies, and language. Shared determinants include resilience; relationships with ancestors and future generations; the interconnectedness of determinants and health and well-being; relationality; an orientation toward the collective; the individual’s role in the collective; interdependence; the importance of and relationships with ancestral and other lands, place, and space; the significance of elders; the intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge; the changing meaning of health over the life course; nation self-determination and sovereignty; and colonization [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 41 , 70 ].…”

Respuestas locales para una crisis global: pueblos indígenas, sociedad civil y transdisciplina para enfrentar el cambio climático

“…La participación efectiva y la consideración de otros sistemas de conocimiento han estado en el centro de las demandas de los pueblos indígenas ante el cambio climático. Como diversos líderes e intelectuales indígenas han enfáticamente señalado, no podremos resolver el problema bajo el mismo paradigma que lo creó (Redvers et al, 2022). Entrelazando estas demandas con la histórica lucha por el reconocimiento, los pueblos indígenas han enfatizado que el cambio climático debe ser abordado a través de un enfoque de justicia relacional que se haga cargo de los múltiples factores que determinan la vulnerabilidad, entre ellos la colonialidad (Ulloa, 2017b).…”

“…Por lo tanto, hoy más que nunca resulta urgente cuestionar el esencialismo y reconocer los conocimientos indígenas como parte de sistemas dinámicos, enraizados no solo en los territorios, sino también en los procesos socioecológicos que enfrentamos (Escobar, 1999). Aunque estos saberes no se encuentran inmunes a la influencia del poder, históricamente han intentado resistir la dominación y, por ello, posicionan una alternativa al sistema de pensamiento dicotómico y utilitarista que ha producido el problema (Redvers et al, 2022).…”