For over five decades, Pictou Landing First Nation, a small Mi'kmaw community on the northern shore of Nova Scotia, has been told that the health of its community is not impacted by a pulp and paper mill pouring 85 million litres of effluent per day into a lagoon that was once a culturally significant place known as “A'se'k,” and which borders the community. Based on lived experience, the community knows otherwise. Despite countless government‐ and industry‐sponsored studies indicating the mill's pollutants are merely “nuisance” impacts and harmless, the community's concerns have not gone away. Using a “Piktukowaq” (Mi'kmaw) environmental health research framework to guide the interpretation of oral histories coming from the Knowledge Holders in Pictou Landing First Nation, we convey the deep, health‐enhancing relationship with A'se'k that the Piktukowaq enjoyed before it was destroyed, and the health suppression that has occurred since then. Conducting the research using a culturally relevant place‐based interpretive framework has demonstrated the absolute necessity of this kind of approach where Indigenous communities are concerned, particularly those facing health impacts vis‐à‐vis land displacement and environmental dispossession.

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将土地流离失所和环境剥夺与Mi'kmaw的健康与福祉联系起来：与文化相关的基于地点的解释框架很重要

五十多年来，新斯科舍省北岸米克莫小型居民Pictou Landing First Nation被告知，该社区的健康不受纸浆和造纸厂每天倾倒8500万升废水的影响进入一个泻湖，该泻湖曾是一个具有重要文化意义的地方，被称为“ A'se'k”，与社区接壤。根据实际经验，社区会知道其他情况。尽管无数政府和行业赞助的研究表明该工厂的污染物仅仅是“令人讨厌”的影响且无害，但社区的担忧并没有消失。我们使用“ Piktukowaq”（Mi'kmaw）环境健康研究框架来指导对来自Pictou Landing First Nation知识持有者的口述历史的解释，Piktukowaq在被摧毁之前与A'se'k的健康增进关系以及此后发生的健康抑制。使用与文化相关的，基于地点的解释框架进行研究，证明了与土著社区有关的这种方法的绝对必要性，尤其是那些面临着因土地流离失所和环境剥夺而遭受健康影响的社区。