“The land is a healer”: Perspectives on land-based healing from Indigenous practitioners in northern Canada

Redvers, Jennifer

doi:10.32799/ijih.v15i1.34046

Cited by 59 publications

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“…A safe space does not always provide the opportunity to look towards truth or to promote agency, thus there is a need to shift our understanding to that of brave spaces (Palfrey 2017). A brave space includes the opportunity to explore community resilience and provides space for people who are often pushed to the margins (such as Indigenous peoples) to determine the best way to move forward and create individual, institutional and societal change (Fraser et al 2019;Latimer et al 2018;MacEntee et al 2021;Redvers, 2020;Trout et al 2018) To understand the current perspectives of Indigenous children and their communities within contemporary periods, it is essential to consider historical experiences of Indigenous children and their 5 families. Indigenous peoples have been made vulnerable through policies and practices that have created and perpetuated inequity (Bennett and Krone McKenzie et al 2016).…”

Section: Navigating Space and Placementioning

confidence: 99%

Brave spaces: Indigenous children in Canada plan for a different tomorrow

Cooper

2022

Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

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When considering the impacts of historical trauma and colonization upon the lived realities of Indigenous young people within Canada, it is essential that research uses strengths-based, capacity building approaches to ensure that the voices are heard and that their perspectives and advice can be actioned. A series of participatory workshops with adults and children were conducted within urban geographies to explore health seeking behaviours, health knowledge, and community resiliency. Research took place in Manitoba, Canada (2015-2016, n=36 girls and 24 adults) with First Nations and Métis community members and British Columbia, Canada (2017, n=11 children and 15 adults) with Métis community members. Children participated in community transect walks, photo elicitation activities, discussion circles (with adult participant contribution), and projected community mapping exercises where they drew their ideal, imagined community. Community consensus processes were used for member checking as well as initial evaluation of research findings including the establishment of key themes. Field notes, discussion transcripts, and images were analyzed for similarities and differences between ages, genders, cultural identifiers, and geographies. A key finding was the need for safe spaces that can also be brave spaces, or moments when community can be free to push for change without reprimand. Children were particularly concerned with sustainable, appropriate housing, safe methods of transportation, access to green spaces, and environmental stewardship within their day-to-day lives. Novelty Bullets: Brave spaces are essential for achieving/maintaining wellness within Indigenous communities. Responds to a need to shift to a determinants of life focus.

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Section: Navigating Space and Placementioning

confidence: 99%

Brave spaces: Indigenous children in Canada plan for a different tomorrow

Cooper

2022

Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

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“…• Education -Low education levels are linked with poor health, more stress, and lower self-confidence. An emerging literature on Indigenous determinants of health is drawing attention to the importance of selfdetermination, language, the expression of Indigenous knowledges, and the connection between the land and spirituality (Greenwood and de Leeuw, 2012;MacDonald et al, 2013;Greenwood et al, 2015;Tagalik, 2015;Healey Akearok, 2018;Redvers, 2020).…”

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From Resilient to Thriving: Policy Recommendations to Support Health and Well-being in the Arctic

Cueva¹,

Rink²,

Lavoie³

et al. 2022

ARCTIC

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In 2018 – 19, eight Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals from Canada, Greenland/Denmark, Sweden, and Alaska/United States came together to address research questions relevant to Arctic nations’ shared challenges and opportunities. Our work incorporated critical, community-based perspectives on Arctic health and well-being and promoted strengths-based approaches developed in partnership with Arctic communities. In this article we describe the group’s 16 action-oriented policy recommendations to support health and well-being in the Arctic in four thematic areas: 1) acknowledge and integrate Indigenous rights and knowledges, 2) implement meaningful action to address Indigenous determinants of health, 3) expand health-oriented monitoring and assessment programs, and 4) implement community-led, critical research approaches that focus on partnerships, reciprocity, adherence to ethical guidelines, and funding community-based research. Our recommendations are actionable guidelines for policy and research aimed at reducing inequities, supporting Indigenous expertise and existing knowledge, and promoting thriving communities in the Arctic.

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“…We examine this in more depth later on, especially in relation to the varied and often romanticised and colonial notions of nature and the environment. Rather than defer to 'nature' a more useful notion to capture our positionality on environmental attunement is a honed sense of 'ecological identity' (Thomashow, 1996) and an approach to education that is place-conscious, connected to land or Country as a relational component of movement, healing and wellbeing (Greenwood, 2014;Redvers, 2020). This introductory paper is more than a philosophical reflection, it is a call to action for how might we respond to environmental knowledge in contemporary education of health and the body.…”

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Environmental attunement in the health and physical education canon: emplaced connection to embodiment, community and ‘nature’

Welch

Taylor

Gard

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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There have been unresolved calls for educators to connect and translate environmental links within health and physical education given the enduring absence, yet overlapping citizen priorities of health. In this Introductory paper to the Special Issue of environmental attunement in the health and/or physical education canon, we question if and how notions of nature and the environment might paradigmatically belong more centrally to the discipline. After some author positioning and situating this work, we draw on theories of attunement to consider what our use of the term 'environmental attunement' offers for shaping epistemological habits and ontological work across health studies and physical education. As part of this, we explore the possibilities and challenges for expanding embodied connections to place, space and 'nature'.We highlight the omnipresence of eco-health, environmentalism, 'nature' and Indigenous ways of knowing as central to a pressing socio-cultural context and politics, yet the absence of epistemological habits in health and physical education responding to this need. To conclude we map links and possibilities from the literature to argue for the necessity of 'environmental attunement' to more centrally underpin teachers' ecological identities in learning about health and human movement.

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“The land is a healer”: Perspectives on land-based healing from Indigenous practitioners in northern Canada

Cited by 59 publications

References 48 publications

Brave spaces: Indigenous children in Canada plan for a different tomorrow

Brave spaces: Indigenous children in Canada plan for a different tomorrow

From Resilient to Thriving: Policy Recommendations to Support Health and Well-being in the Arctic

Environmental attunement in the health and physical education canon: emplaced connection to embodiment, community and ‘nature’

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