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Iinaaka Siinakupii Tsiniikii (Little video storyteller): co-designing digital literacy with Piikani First Nation AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Rob McMahon, Amy C Mack, Herman Many Guns
Tensions persist in co-designing appropriate forms of digital literacy with Indigenous peoples, particularly in contexts of settler colonialism. Given the historically extractive nature of many institutional research relations with Indigenous peoples, emphasis should be placed on community-led approaches to learn how people are adapting and adopting digital technologies. Through concepts like Niitooii
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Book Review: Susan D. Dion, Braided Learning: Illuminating Indigenous Presence Through Art and Story AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Joel Nicholas Persaud (Jyekhwaå’) (Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaq, Wapishana, Lokono
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Tikanga and New Zealand political parties—heading in the “right” direction? case study—2020 General Election AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Annie Te One, Clair Caird
This article examines references to tikanga Māori (Māori (the Indigenous Peoples of New Zealand) values) by New Zealand political parties. The article grounds itself in some of the wider debates relating to the incorporation and application of tikanga, Māori values, across New Zealand in both legal and political contexts, with particular review of legislative references. An analysis of New Zealand
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Chief Robert Henry Clarence: the last hereditary chief of the Mosquito Reservation AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Luciano Baracco
This article presents a biography of Chief Robert Henry Clarence, the last Hereditary Chief of the Mosquito Reservation— a historical territory formerly located on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast. In 1894, the reservation was militarily incorporated into Nicaragua. The following account shines a light on the Mosquito (the largest Indigenous tribe living in Mosquitia—an historical territory on Central America’s
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Endaayaang: the importance of “Indigenizing” housing first for youth AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Cathy Fournier, Sabina Mirza, Karen Naidoo, Sheryl Green, Clay Shirt, Sarah Cameron, Suzanne L. Stewart, Stephen Gaetz
This article explores Endaayaang, which means a safe place where the heart and spirit feel at home, an Indigenous Housing First for Youth programme, located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The programme is informed by Elders, Traditional Knowledge Holders, Indigenous youth and Indigenous frontline workers and is grounded in Indigenous knowledges and worldviews. The programme helps unhoused Indigenous
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Perspectives on relationality in online Indigenous language learning AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Courtney Tennell, Kari AB Chew
This study focuses on perspectives and experiences of Indigenous community members who have either created or are in the process of creating computer-assisted language learning courses for Indigenous languages and how these community members center relationality in the creation of the courses. We engaged a decolonizing and relational methodology to document Indigenous language courses and co-create
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Rethinking Australian democracy as a deliberative system AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Roger Davis
This paper examines the relationship between Australia’s Indigenous and settler colonial systems of democracy through the lens of deliberative systems theory. It suggests that the ongoing effects of colonialism have rendered Indigenous democracy largely invisible causing a harmful divide in Australia’s democracies. A pluralist conception of democracy is necessary to understand the disconnect between
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Whānau (immediate and extended family) lived experiences of whakawhānau (birthing process) during COVID-19 in Aotearoa (New Zealand): an exploratory analysis AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Arianna Nisa-Waller (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Kapotai), Yvette Hall, Liza Edmonds (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua)
This study aims to explore the impacts of COVID-19 on birthing for wāhine (women) and whānau (immediate and extended family) in Aotearoa (New Zealand) during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. This rangahau (research) provided whānau with an opportunity to share their whakawhānau (birthing process) experiences via interviews. The data were analysed through interpretative phenomenological analysis. Themes
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Living the dream: Nanai shamanic experiments and porous engagements in the Siberian Far East AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Mally Stelmaszyk, Leonid Sungorkin
This article is about the ways in which shamanic practice is engaged in navigating and responding to the current climatic and geopolitical crisis in Far East Siberia, Russia, through proposing experimental multiversal projects. It traces the manner in which a Nanai (Indigenous peoples of Siberia, Russia; literally, people of the Earth) sama (shaman), hereafter, shaman, brings together diverse techniques
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Culture and health outcomes for a First Nation community AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Rosa Evelia Sanchez Garcia
The main purpose of the article is to provide insights into the prevalence of internal and external organ illnesses in Brokenhead Ojibwa (Indigenous peoples of southern Canada and Midwestern USA) Nation, and their relationship with those cultural variables that the scholarly literature indicates as determinants of Indigenous health. The data were collected through a household survey. Both the descriptive
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The consequences of “benevolent” colonial powers and structural inequities in the implementation of Jordan’s Principle in Manitoba, Canada AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Alison J Gerlach, Vandna Sinha, Lucy Lach, Marcel Balfour, Maryann E Flett
Jordan’s Principle is a legal requirement for the Canadian government to address gaps in services for First Nations children and ensure timely services that meet their needs and best interests. This article synthesizes and discusses some of the key research findings described in a report on the implementation of Jordan’s Principle in Manitoba, produced by a team of academic researchers in partnership
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Total Control: “black bitch” offending the offenders AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Bronwyn Carlson
Total Control (2019–2024) is a political drama that follows the story of Rachel Griffiths as the prime minister of so-called Australia and Deborah Mailman as her political rival. Available on demand on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) iView, Total Control was initially called “Black Bitch” to draw attention to the historical racial slur but was forced to change its title due to a social
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Indigenous peoples, digital leisure, and popular culture AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Madi Day, Corrinne T Sullivan
This is the introductory article for the special issue “Indigenous peoples, digital leisure, and popular culture”. Following the 2016 issue of AlterNative edited by Michelle Harris and Bronwyn Carlson “Indigenous people, popular pleasure and the everyday”, this article comments on the continued influence of the former issue and offers some new commentary on Indigenous popular and digital leisure today
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A love letter to drag AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Andrew Farrell
Drag as an enduring artform has reached the masses through the hit reality television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009–2024). This article explores an intimate reflection on the series through the lens of a queer Aboriginal person who is both a fan and practitioner of the art of drag. Beyond the scope of niche fandoms at queer margins, this letter points to the violent and liberatory entanglements generated
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Coding Indigenous culture as post-traumatic stress disorder: an ethical dilemma AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Lisa G Byers
This autoethnography explored an ethical dilemma for an Indigenous investigator involved in a study of adult Indigenous boarding school survivors. As research team members coded post-traumatic stress disorder for an interview, the author was at an ethical crossroads that involved betrayal, stigma, oppression, and within-group diversity. The author deemed that the interview was an expression of culturally
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Decolonizing nature conservation according to natural law: learning from the Kogui AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Aili Pyhälä
With rising concerns over the failed outcomes of global conservation strategies and the militarization of environmental monitoring and enforcement, there is an urgent need for decolonizing nature conservation. This article examines the position of Indigenous peoples as rights-and-knowledge-holders in this discourse and the vital role they play in biodiversity conservation globally. I present a 2018
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Disrupting pathological Indigenous crime narratives: Māori youth classified as serious offenders, cultural identity, and cultural connectedness AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Tania Cliffe-Tautari (Te Arawa, Ngāi Tahu)
Rangatahi Māori (Māori youth, Indigenous people of New Zealand) are grossly over-represented in youth court statistics compared to other ethnicities (63%). Despite these statistics, research into cultural identity is sparse. This article presents recent PhD findings with 10 rangatahi Māori sentenced for offending behaviours, appearing in a New Zealand Youth Court or Ngā Kōti Rangatahi (Māori cultural
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Farmers’ use of Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation across farming systems and agroecological zones of Sierra Leone AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Oladimeji Idowu Oladele, Augustine Amara
The qualitative analysis of farmers’ use of Indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation across farming systems and agroecological zones of Sierra Leone was conducted using a combination of interpretive phenomenological analysis, Focus Group Discussions, and participant observation, which was analyzed with a qualitative interpretative approach. Farmers respond to climate change through the use
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Trash Tiddas: Blak queers, terrible TV and the Blachelorette AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Madi Day (Murri), Tully DeVries (Gamilaroi, Dharug), Amy LF (Yuwi), Brooke Scobie (Goorie)
Trash Tiddas is a podcast about Blak—a reclaiming of Black from English as a colonising language, and used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people—Millennial life and culture produced by First Nations digital content platform Awesome Black. In this article, the hosts Tully DeVries, Amy LF and Brooke Scobie speak with Madi Day about the cultural significance of Brooke Blurton’s season as Australia’s
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Revelations about the seeds we planted: huikau, kū̒ē, and the Lāhui AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Kourtney Kawano (Kanaka ̒Ōiwi)
Although emerging research on families of color explores internalized oppression and resistance, there is a gap in the literature on these phenomena’s incidence among Kanaka ̒Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) ̒ohana (families) and the Lāhui (Hawaiian people, nation). Furthermore, scholars have yet to contextualize internalized oppression and resistance as huikau (confusion) and kū̒ē (to oppose, protest, resist)
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Can multi-stakeholder platforms and dialogues facilitate the meaningful and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples in managing natural resource conflicts? AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Shree Kumar Maharjan (Newar), Blake Ratner, Antsa Razafimbelo
Indigenous Peoples have important roles and contributions in the systematic and sustainable management of natural resources; however, their full and effective participation in the related processes, mechanisms including related multi-stakeholder platforms, and dialogues (MSPDs) are not always ensured at the national and global levels. This article focuses on the review and analysis of the published
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Widening the circle: assuming differentiated responsibilities in the Indigenization of university education AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Catherine Dussault (Wendat, Nation huronne-wendat), Marc Molgat, Mona Tolley (Anishinabekwe, Kitigan Zibi First Nation), Karine Vanthuyne
Since Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Canadian universities have pledged to Indigenize education and hired Indigenous Curriculum Specialists to implement this commitment. These new higher education employees, however, face limited resources for, and resistance to, their work. To move forward, Indigenous Curriculum Specialists are calling for fruitful dialogues between them and their interlocutors
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Corporate sector engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: an analysis of stakeholder submissions AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Petrina Leersen, Mark Lock (Ngiyampaa), Troy Walker (Yorta Yorta), Alessandro Crocetti, Jennifer Browne
The commercial determinants of health are an emerging area of inquiry; however, a comprehensive understanding of commercial activities impacting Indigenous peoples remains elusive. In 2021, an Australian parliamentary inquiry was initiated to examine how the corporate sector can better engage with Indigenous consumers. This study examined the commercial determinants of Indigenous health and social
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Promoting health and wellness through Indigenous sacred sites, ceremony grounds, and land-based learning: a scoping review AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Moneca Sinclaire, Lindsay P Allen, Andrew R Hatala
This study analyzes the literature on Indigenous sacred sites within the larger topic areas of land-based education and healing, as per the guidance of Anishinaabe (a group of Indigenous Peoples from the Great Lakes and the Great Plains areas of contemporary Canada and USA) Elders and community leaders in eastern Manitoba, Canada. A scoping review was conducted to identify the size, scope, nature,
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“Don’t respond”: sexting and scrolling in First Nations’ queer literature AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Arlie Alizzi
Queer and trans First Nations literatures offer a complex range of perspectives on social media use. In this piece, written as a letter addressing an anonymous brotherboy character called Benny, who is based on a person that catfished and harassed me online, I examine three Indigenous books that present complex, critical, or disillusioned accounts of social media use, exploring the forms of deception
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Meeting in the margin: can participatory research address the root causes of Indigenous mental health problems? AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Georgia Vrakas, Arlene Laliberté (Timiskaming First Nation)
Although Indigenous Peoples represent 5% of the population in Canada, they present higher rates of psychosocial problems including mental health issues and suicide than their non-Indigenous counterparts. They are also over-represented in the youth protection and prison systems. This must be understood within the specific context of the oppression of Indigenous Peoples in Canada through colonization
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Indigenous Elder perspectives on climate change challenges and solutions: learning reflection from Blackfoot First Nation perspectives, Canada AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ranjan Datta, Teena Starlight (Tsuut’ina First Nation), Daniel Craig Mistaken (Kainai First Nation)
In this article, we explore the importance of incorporating Indigenous Elders’ perspectives in developing solutions to climate change. Following relational land-based theoretical frameworks, we learn from Indigenous Elders how they foster a strong sense of community and collective responsibility. Indigenous Elders prioritize inclusivity, social cohesion, and the interconnectedness of humans with nature
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The Tihei Rangatahi Research Programme: tailoring a community-based youth empowerment programme for rangatahi Māori AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Ridvan Tupa’i-Firestone, Cheryl Davies (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Wehi Wehi), Renee Davies (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Wehi Wehi), Terry Fleming, Lisa Te Morenga (Ngāti Whātua Orakei, Te Uri o Hau, Ngāpuhi, Te R, Te Kani Kingi (Ngāti Awa), Angelique O’Connell, Anna Matheson, Blakely Brown, Lis Ellision-Loschmann (Te Atiawa, Ngāi Tahu)
Empowering Indigenous youth in their communities and within their own social-cultural contexts is an essential approach to developing their capacity as community advocators. We adapted an established youth empowerment programme for use among 51 Indigenous New Zealand youth. The key learnings of the programme reported: (a) youth highly rated their understanding and confidence across various social-health
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Commemorating Stolen Generation experiences through virtual reality AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Reena Tiwari, John Richard Stephens, Kim John Scott (Noongar), Renee Parnell, James Morrison (Minang), Fatmaelzahraa Fekry Mohamed Hussein
State sanctioned removal of Australian Aboriginal children from family, culture, and country has had harmful and traumatic effects on the Survivors of this process and their children. Known as the Stolen Generations, children were detained in government settlements and church missions and stripped of Aboriginality. This article explores ways that a virtual reality reconstruction of mission environments
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Book Review: Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research: Implications for Policy and Practice AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Joel Nicholas Persaud (Jyekhwaå’) (Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaq, Wapishana, Lokono
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“We don’t have a lot of trees, but by God, do we have a lot of fish”: imagining postcolonial futures for the Nunatsiavut fishing industry AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Rachael Cadman, Jamie Snook, Jim Goudie, Keith Watts, Todd Broomfield, Ron Johnson, Jessica Winters, Megan Bailey
Telling stories can be an empowering exercise, providing important insights into the values and priorities of the storytellers. This article shares stories told during a participatory scenario planning process among Inuit, an Indigenous People of northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, USA. This research takes place in Nunatsiavut, a land claim area in Labrador, Canada, to explore how visions provide
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Ozark matters: implications about Black lives AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Sarah Demekech Graham
By referring to the White settler post-racial imaginary of the USA, this article examines the slippage, transferability, and political interplay of racial representations into an analysis of the character of Ruth Langmore, a White adolescent woman portrayed in the Netflix series Ozark (2017–2022). Establishing the history of popular culture in the USA as emergent from Blackface, I argue that Ruth is
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Flighty like the pīwakawaka! Personal reflections on mid-life ADHD diagnosis and the beginnings of a framework for conceptualising the condition from a Māori perspective AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Byron Rangiwai (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Manawa, Ngāti Whare
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and executive dysfunction. While commonly associated with childhood, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder often persists into adulthood and poses significant challenges in various aspects of life, leading to negative self-perceptions, decreased quality of
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Aboriginal youth mentoring: a pathway to leadership AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Mishel McMahon, Michael Chisholm, Werner Vogels, Corina Modderman
This article shares findings from evaluating a mentoring programme for Aboriginal youth on Yorta Yorta (an Aboriginal Tribal nation, north-eastern Victoria and Southern New South Wales, Australia) Country. This work is positioned in First Nations worldviews that are relational and require deep listening to youth, mentors, Elders, Country, and Ancestors. Applying a qualitative participatory action research
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Indigenous knowledge and creativities online: TikTok as a relational tool within the Indigenous art process AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Dylan Barnes
This article explores the potential of TikTok videos as a method of relational engagement for Indigenous artists. The concept of relationality is the foundation of Indigenous artistic practices, through which Indigenous art is representative of an ongoing process of knowledge sharing and connection rather than a final product. Within this process, art is given meaning through the extensive relationships
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Melanesian reimagining: a digital tok stori of Papua New Guinean identity on Instagram AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Angela Kampah Matthews
Expanding social media research on the Pacific Digital Revolution, this article explores the significance of Papua New Guineans’ digital and visual articulations of Papua New Guinean identity through Instagram by analysing two public Papua New Guinean Instagram accounts, @archiveples and @taniabphoto. The research triangulates between Pacific, Indigenous, and Cultural studies, drawing on articulation
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Queer Indigenous screen representation: beyond a gift from the past or a problem to be solved AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri), Han Reardon-Smith, Alana Blakers, Teyah Miller
Indigenous characters on screen have often been positioned as a gift from the past with innate heroic characteristics, or a problem to be solved in the form of the sad Indigenous person who cannot rise above colonial rule. That these archetypes are framed as positive in their representation is at odds with the need to have representations of the complexity of First Nations peoples. With queer Indigenous
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Integrating Indigenous women’s traditional knowledge for climate change in Canada AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Gabriella Gricius, Annie Martel
Traditional Ecological Knowledge has historically been appropriated by White settler societies across the globe. It has an important role to play in environmental decision-making, particularly in climate policy. Due to past colonization and continued neo-colonial pressures, Indigenous women’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge has an even less prominent position in environmental policies. Traditional
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Comparing the learning experiences of Indigenous women in post-conflict periods: Umoja, Kenya and Chorrera, Colombia AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Angela Santamaria
I conducted fieldwork in Umoja village, Samburu County, Kenya and Chorrera County, Colombia. These countries have a history of gender violence against Indigenous women and this violence often continues into contemporary times. Conversations about contemporary violence against Indigenous women in Chorrera’s educational spaces—high school or the workshops of the local Indigenous organization—during the
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Developing the “Moorditj Moort Boodja (Solid Family and Country) on the ground community relational framework for Aboriginal research engagement” in Western Australia: The Next Generation Aboriginal Youth Well-being Cohort Study AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Robyn Williams (Noongar), Francine Eades (Noongar), Justine Whitby (Noongar Yamatji), Katiska Davis (Noongar), Christopher McKay (Wiradjuri), Lina Gubhaju, Sandra Eades (Noongar)
Indigenous research frameworks are key to enhancing cultural safety for participants, while facilitating capacity building for Indigenous researchers. Indigenous frameworks can address and balance out the potential harms of western research methods. This methodology article describes the experiences of an Indigenous research team in Western Australia (WA) and the developed research framework titled
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A theoretical conceptualisation of connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Leah Henderson (Wiradjuri), Erinn Hawkins, Stephen Corporal (Eastern Arrernte), John Graham (Kombumerri, Minjungbal, Wakka Wakka), Candace Kruger (Kombumerri (Yugambeh), Ngugi (Quandamooka)), Alex Marshall (Eastern, Aranda Warluwarra), Joan Marshall (Alyawarre, Kalkadoon), Karen West (Kalkadoon), Dianne C Shanley
Connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children is an important social determinant of health in child development and wellbeing. The current study draws upon the collective knowledge of Australian First Peoples Elders and community leaders to collaboratively develop the first theoretical conceptualisation of connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children. Through participatory
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Prioritizing Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge in federal decision-making: insights from faculty, graduate students, and tribal leaders AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Clarita Lefthand-Begay, Taylor J Agajanian, Itza A Carbajalt, Joanna C La Torre, Cheyne P Littlesun, Micah McCarty, Jessica M Rose, Robin Ruhm, Caitie Sheban, Cherry YEW Yamane, Michael Williams
In response to the mounting global climate crisis, the Biden administration began developing guidelines for incorporating Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge into US federal decision-making. Though Indigenous Peoples are the original caretakers and stewards of the land, colonization, breached treaties, and false narratives have affected self-determination, treaty rights, and land management
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An analysis of Hawaiian identity and life satisfaction through cultural reclamation: implications for Hawaiian well-being AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Catherine Jara (Kanaka Maoli), Ngoc T Phan
Today, the Hawaiian community faces high rates of health disparities, as well as loss of land, language, and culture due to colonization. However, Hawaiians continue to keep their culture alive, and cultural reclamation theory argues that Indigenous Peoples are healthier when they have opportunities to engage with their cultural practices. This theory points to culture as a possible intervention. We
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men’s groups and social and emotional wellbeing: a scoping review AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Samual Fisher (Wakka Wakka), Kylie King, Doris Paton (Gunai, Monaro Ngarigo), Graham Gee, Laura Jobson
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men’s groups are recognised for improving the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men. However, there is currently no published evidence of the synthesis of these groups. This review examined the characteristics, aims, activities and impacts of these groups. PsycINFO, MEDLINE and HealthInfoNet were utilised to identify the published and grey literature
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This isn’t plug and play: intersectionality, Indigeneity, and EDID work AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Rebecca Major
For some, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) work is new, and they are working to catch up. For others, attention to EDID work occurring is because of the many years of labour involved, and it is not a new area or vocation. Much like Indigenization, which is being treated as plug and play when it is its own discipline, EDID is developing in a similar fashion. EDID committees are
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Highlighting models of Indigenous leadership and self-governance for COVID-19 vaccination programmes AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Katrina Clark, Kristy Crooks, Bavatharane Jeyanathan, Fatima Ahmed, Gisele Kataquapit, Celine Sutherland, Leonard J.S. Tsuji, Robert J. Moriarity, Nicholas D. Spence, Fatih Sekercioglu, Eric N. Liberda, Nadia A. Charania
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted Indigenous populations worldwide placing much importance on rapid and equitable vaccination. Nevertheless, many Indigenous communities have reported high vaccine hesitancy and low COVID-19 vaccine uptake. This may be attributed to various factors, including a lack of support for Indigenous leadership efforts to protect their communities and the
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Yarning about e-mental health tools: First Nations Australian youth perspectives of well-being and e-health AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Madeline N Wills, Jessica Rodaughan, Laura Jobson, Karen Adams, Cammi Murrup-Stewart
This study implemented Indigenous research methods, including yarning, to understand First Nations youth’s perspectives of social and emotional well-being and how e-health can support their well-being. Six First Nations youth (aged 18–25 years, M = 21.33) based in Victoria, Australia, yarned with the First Nations researcher between April and July 2022. Yarns emphasised the importance of connection
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Indigenous community engagement requirements for academic journals AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Cathy Fournier, Jenny R. Rand, Sherry Pictou, Kathleen Murphy, Debbie Martin, Tara Pride, Marni Amirault, Ashlee Cunsolo, Marybeth Doucette, De-Ann Sheppard, Anita C Benoit, Jane McMillan, John Sylliboy
This commentary emerged from an Indigenous research ethics and governance gathering and a scoping review completed by a diverse team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, which includes some of the co-authors of this article. A lack of detail regarding whether and how community engagement was carried out and reported in the context of published Indigenous health research in the Atlantic region
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A process for Indigenous community research through meaningful engagement with Grandmother’s Bay AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Adrian Teare, Anne Mease, Claudia Madampage, Alexandra King, Malcolm King
Historically, research partnerships between Indigenous communities and academic institutions were often harmful for communities; wise ways of achieving more balanced and just relationships are emerging. This project focuses on the research partnership between Grandmother’s Bay and the University of Saskatchewan with the objectives of providing knowledge on initiating Indigenous community-based research
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The application of international cultural rights in protecting Indigenous peoples’ land property in Indonesia AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Chairul Fahmi (Acehnese)
Since the Indonesian government adopted the Agrarian Law 1960, which emphasises that any lands or territories without land title or land certificate are claimed belong to the state property, Indigenous peoples argue that the right over their land is based on a common recognition, instead of an official certification. This article aims to analyse the applicability of international cultural rights’ norms
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“500 years of Columbus a lie, yet we survive!”: Kalinago revivalism, climate resilience, and ecotourism development in the Nature Isle AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Kimberly Dawn Miller
The Commonwealth of Dominica pledged to become the world’s first climate-resilient country after the devastation of Hurricane Maria, with ecotourism being part of that sustainable development strategy. Ecotourism growth on the lush eastern Caribbean island has since surpassed pre-storm levels, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crucial to the government’s sustainable resilience strategy has been ethno-cultural
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Where our identity lies: Confirmation of Aboriginality—narratives of colonial and lateral violence AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Emma Walke, Marcelle Louise Townsend-Cross, Jasper Garay, Veronica Matthews, Michelle Dickson, David Edwards, Candace Angelo
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are facing growing levels of scrutiny to prove their identity to access Indigenous-specific government services designed to mitigate the impacts of past government policies. Yet, it is those who have been most severely impacted by past government policies of forcible removal from Country and separation of families who often face challenges obtaining evidence
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The next seven generations: at the heart of care alongside Mi’kmaw women AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Erica Samms Hurley
The strawberry is connected to heart teachings for many Indigenous people. The strawberry plant produces beautiful things. However, when exploring the topic of Indigenous women and heart health, the focus of the conversation is most often around deficits. Indigenous women have diseases related to the heart at a higher proportion than both non-Indigenous women and Indigenous men. There is a lack of
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Living with dementia in Aotearoa New Zealand: Samoan families’ perspectives AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Fuafiva Fa’alau, Andrew Peteru, Jacinta Fa’alili-Fidow, Mary Roberts, Sharyn Wilson
There is very little research about dementia in Aotearoa (New Zealand) New Zealand (NZ) Pacific communities, but information available suggests that Pacific people are presenting with dementia at a younger age and with more severe cognitive symptoms than do non-Pacific. The Samoan ethnic group is NZ’s largest Pacific population. This study explores experiences and understanding of dementia from family
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Culturally safe health and social service access for urban Métis women: a scoping review AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Carly Jones, Renée Monchalin, Janet Smylie
Métis people, one of Canada’s three constitutionally recognized Indigenous groups, experience detrimental impacts on their health, identity, and access to culturally safe services as a result of colonial systems and policies. There is also a critical gap in research surrounding the health of urban Métis women. This scoping review aims to explore the experiences of Métis women seeking to access culturally
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An Indigenous view of social justice leadership in the Malaysian education system AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Suria Angit (Temiar), Adrian Jarvis
Social justice leadership is a method of building greater inclusivity in a variety of fields, education being prominent among them. This article considers how social justice leadership can improve educational opportunities for Orang Asli (the original people; the Indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia). It explores the concepts of social justice and social justice leadership, arguing that they are
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Mental health implementation research in Indigenous communities: creating culturally safe space to enhance collective strengths AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nicole A D’souza, Michaela Field, Tristan Supino, Mia Messer, Erin Aleck, Laurence J Kirmayer
In this article, we discuss the construct of cultural safety in relation to the ethics, politics, and practice of implementation research in Indigenous communities. We convened a 3-day workshop, bringing together 23 Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaborators from First Nation communities and universities across Canada to reflect on experiences with implementing an Indigenous youth and family mental
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Revisiting the historic Métis-Syilx McDougall family in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Gabrielle Legault (Red River Métis)
Contentions centering on rights claims on behalf of Métis, an Indigenous group descended from a distinct bicultural political nation in central Canada, continue within the traditional territory of the Syilx, a group Indigenous to the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. This article revisits earlier work arguing that Métis in Kelowna pre-1900s were mostly absorbed into Syilx community, having
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Adaptation to water-induced disaster: exploring local knowledge and Indigenous knowledge-led strategies AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Pamela Rittelmeyer, Martina Angela Caretta, Calynn Dowler, Shuchi Vora, Cydney K Seigerman, EB Uday Bhaskar Reddy, Lakshmikantha NR, Jagadish Parajuli, Jaishri Srinivasan, Ritu Priya, Aditi Mukherji
The magnitude of water-induced disasters is projected to increase in the coming decades. Yet, there is a substantial gap in the understanding of how local knowledge and Indigenous knowledge are employed to respond to climate change water-induced disasters. We examine this gap through a meta-review of literature published between 2014 and 2019 yielding 39 scholarly papers. The meta-review indicates
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Indigenous Australians’ experiences during COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Darwin Region AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Linda Ford, Adriana Ticoalu, Dávid Karácsonyi, Tracy Woodroffe, Pawinee Yuhun, Emily Ford, Kathy Guthadjaka, Colin Baker
This article presents a study on the experiences of Indigenous Australians living in the Greater Darwin Region in the Northern Territory during the COVID-19 pandemic. The main aim is to understand the impacts of the pandemic on various aspects of the lives of Indigenous Australians. A survey with open-ended questions was distributed during the period of May to December 2021 to potential participants