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AlterNative : An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
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ISSN (Print) 1177-1801 - ISSN (Online) 1174-1740
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  • Falaj Indigenous knowledge in Oman and Iran

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      Authors: Abdullah Saif Al-Ghafri, Majid Labbaf Khaneiki, Nasser A Al Saqri, Khalifa M Al-Kindi
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Both Oman and Iran possess a harsh environment where people’s survival and development entail a deep knowledge about their surroundings. A considerable part of this knowledge has crystallized around the falaj, a hydraulic technique that transfers water from a groundwater source or seasonal runoffs to cultivated lands, in Omani and Iranian oases, that has historically served as the only water source in an otherwise barren arid land. This article argues that the spatial extent of the falaj confronts local communities with a variety of questions to be solved. This article also tries to answer how the falaj system contributed to the development of modern sciences in a broader context. The article concludes that a transition from Indigenous knowledge to modern sciences has changed the position of local communities from coexistence to over-exploitation in terms of their water resources, and this transition can explain their current water problems.
      PubDate: 2023-05-23T05:28:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168668
       
  • Indigenous innovation and organizational change towards equitable higher
           education systems: the Canadian experience

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      Authors: Merli Tamtik
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Indigenous knowledges are largely absent from higher education institutions’ efforts to pursue excellence and innovation. Grounded in decolonization literature and institutional theory, this article examines how Indigenous peoples of Canada have engaged with innovation discourses in higher education. Through document analysis of 15 research-intensive Canadian universities and conversation with 13 Indigenous peoples, the article analyses political, functional, and normative pressures associated with Indigenous knowledges shaping Canadian universities. The article demonstrates how Indigenous groups have been able to push post-secondary institutions towards a normative shift in organizational structure. The article also shows how approaching innovation from decolonizing perspectives can provide a way forward for equitable higher education systems, advocating for re-imagining the dominant market economy, and focusing on learning from Indigenous worldviews that centre around reciprocity, ecological sustainability, and connection to land.
      PubDate: 2023-05-20T05:07:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231170277
       
  • The ethnic food system of Jaad Bhotiya tribal community in the Gangotri
           landscape of western Himalaya: a transition in traditional practices

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      Authors: Shobha Bhatt, Monika Vats Purohit, Khima Nand Balodi, Ujjwal Kumar, Archana Sharma, Vijay Shridhar, Ayyanadar Arunachalam, Kusum Arunachalam
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Traditional foods of Indigenous peoples are composed of ingredients from the local environment that are culturally acceptable. The Indian Himalayan region is known for its diverse tribal population, and each of them exhibits a distinct food culture. The present study has been conducted first time to document the diverse traditional food practices of Jaad Bhotiya, a lesser-known tribe of the Gangotri landscape, Uttarakhand, India. The community holds a varied range of ethnic foods; however, 13 traditional dishes are described in the present article. This study reflects a clear understanding of their preference, importance, and causes of transitions. It is noteworthy that the elders were highly attached to ethnic foods while the younger generation has limited fondness for it. The current transitional pattern is an issue of concern for policymakers, anthropologists, and the community itself. Nonetheless, a holistic policy approach to conserve traditional foods may provide an opportunity to sustain these unique practices.
      PubDate: 2023-05-17T04:35:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231173396
       
  • What culturally safe cancer care means to Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First
           Nation

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      Authors: Wendy Gifford, Peggy Dick, Catherine Larocque, Shokoufeh Modanloo, Liquaa Wazni, Zeina Al Awar, Maggie Benoit
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Understanding what culturally safe care means to First Nations people is the first step to reimagining how healthcare can be conceived and operationalized. This study explored the meaning of culturally safe cancer care with Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation in Canada, including community members’ perceptions of barriers to receiving it. Two focus groups using journey mapping were held with cancer survivors and family members (n = 16) and healthcare providers (n = 12), followed by individual interviews (n = 13). Discussions were video-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and thematically analysed. Culturally safe cancer care encompassed: (a) family and community, (b) culture as healing, and (c) stories for sharing cultural teachings. Ongoing systemic racism was described as prevalent in cancer care today and a significant barrier to culturally safe care. Further research is needed for health system change to dismantle the systemic and structural factors that continue to make healthcare unsafe and harm Indigenous People.
      PubDate: 2023-05-17T04:32:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168681
       
  • Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: smoothing the waters in natural
           resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty

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      Authors: Jade Hyslop, Nikki Harcourt, Shaun Awatere, Dan Hikuroa, Paula Blackett, Richard Le Heron
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because knowledge holders have different worldviews. Eurocentric concepts of risk and uncertainty continue to frame policy, making it challenging for Māori knowledge to shape policy that is relevant for decision-making in Aotearoa. We explore Māori perspectives of risk and uncertainty and literature, identifying common attributes across natural resource management frameworks, and identify issues of risk and uncertainty from the perspective of Māori experts. We conclude that a Māori approach to enhancing natural resources is more aligned to current environmental policy compared with standard approaches for risk assessment and reducing uncertainty.
      PubDate: 2023-05-13T09:00:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231174317
       
  • Relationships and responsibilities between Anishinaabek and Nokomis Giizis
           (Grandmother Moon) inform N’bi (Water) governance

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      Authors: Susan Chiblow
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Efforts continue to evolve for sustainable and inclusive water governance in Canada. All humanity relies on N’bi (Water) for life, yet contrasting views and knowledge on N’bi still elude water governance. Far too often, Indigenous women are left out of water governance regardless of their relationships and responsibilities to and for N’bi. Indigenous women, more specifically Anishinaabek (Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island also known as Canada and the USA) kweok (women) understand the relationships and responsibilities Nokomis Giizis (Grandmother Moon) has to N’bi through the cycles of kweok and Nokomis Giizis and how this is guided through natural law. This article explores the relationships and responsibilities between Anishinaabek kweok and Nokomis Giizis and how it can inform water governance based on Anishinaabek naaknigewin (law).
      PubDate: 2023-05-12T09:25:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231173114
       
  • Nhaltjan dhu ḻarrum ga dharaŋan dhuḏi-dhäwuw ŋunhi limurr dhu
           gumurrbunanhamirr ga waŋanhamirr, Yolŋu ga Balanda: how we come together
           to explore and understand the deeper story of intercultural communication
           in a Yolŋu (First Nations Australian) community

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      Authors: Emily Armstrong, Ḻäwurrpa Maypilama, Yuŋgirrŋa Bukulatjpi, Dorothy Gapany, Lyn Fasoli, Sarah Ireland, Rachel Dikul Baker, Sally Hewat, Anne Lowell
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This study explored intercultural communication from the perspectives of partners from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. We used a culturally responsive form of video-reflexive ethnography to study intercultural communication processes between Yolŋu, pronounced Yolngu (First Nations people from the region that is now called North-East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia) and Balanda (non-Indigenous people). Yolŋu and Balanda researchers worked collaboratively throughout the study (2017–2021). In a very remote Yolŋu community in northern Australia, five early childhood assessment interactions were recorded and analysed by the 40 Yolŋu and Balanda participants. Researchers analysed data collaboratively using an approach aligned with constructivist grounded theory. We connected key research findings about intercultural communication processes to a place-based metaphor which foregrounds Yolŋu cultural knowledge and encourages reflection on deeper ways of thinking about how we connect, collaborate and communicate interculturally.
      PubDate: 2023-05-11T11:45:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231169337
       
  • The history of Sámi nursing education and the path toward regulations on
           a national guideline for Sámi nursing education in Norway

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      Authors: Grete Mehus, Anne Britt Klemetsen Hætta, Nina Emaus, Linda Okstad
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      The history of the Norwegianization policy against the Sámi, the Indigenous people of Sápmi, (northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwest Russia) was about colonization, assimilation and discrimination from 1930 until 1980. Many Sámi lost their mother tongue and were disconnected from their culture and traditional ways of living, which resulted in historical trauma. Taking this into consideration, a nursing program with specific Sámi content was implemented in northern Sápmi four times since 1995. This article elaborates our experiences with developing programs and new national guidelines in Sámi nursing in Sápmi. We encourage more tertiary education institutions in Sápmi to offer Sámi nursing programs with the above focus and recommend admission requirements that do not prolong the linguistic discrimination of Sámi students. Today, all Norwegian universities and colleges can draw up curricula for nursing programs with the particular aim of focusing on Sámi issues in nursing programs.
      PubDate: 2023-05-10T06:52:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168762
       
  • How to do research with Native communities: lessons from students’
           experiences and Elders’ wisdom

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      Authors: Nusroon Fatiha, Tai Mendenhall, Jerica M Berge
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Native scholars are advocating for decolonized research that integrates western methods with Indigenous worldviews and epistemologies. The study presented here was conducted in the Midwestern USA with six graduate students, four recent alumni, and three community Elders with experience in health research. Our goal was to learn from their experiences in scholarship so as to inform future teachers and trainees. An iterative thematic analysis revealed participants’ unanimous emphasis on processes in trust-building. Said processes include gaining insights about personal biases, seeking preparatory and ongoing guidance from Elders and other experienced personnel, educating oneself about Native histories, and functioning as a humble learner. Learning about and enacting these behaviors and strategies can facilitate authentic collaborations. Lessons, suggestions, and resources shared by participants are informative toward creating guidelines for current and future educators in research methods, alongside the new students and professionals that they engage in instruction for such scholarship.
      PubDate: 2023-05-09T04:47:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231171234
       
  • Responding to Climate Change: Indigenous knowledge lessons from Nigerian
           root and tuber farmers

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      Authors: Bolanle Susan Olaniyan, Nadaraj Govender
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This study espoused lessons learnt from Indigenous root and tuber farmers’ responses to Climate Change in Nigeria. Situated Learning Theory and Participatory Phenomenology framed the study. Data were generated using focus group discussions, in-depth interview and participant observation. An inductive thematic analysis was applied on the data. The experience of Climate Change by the farmers has been change in rainfall pattern and other indicators were identified. The farmers respond to Climate Change using their Indigenous knowledge of water conservation by making mounds, maintain soil fertility by practising crop rotation, use compost made from household wastes and sustainable use of natural resources. The farmers’ preference for adapting to Climate Change using Indigenous knowledge was attributed to Indigenous knowledge being effective, easily accessible and inexpensive along with their apathy to scientific interventions. The study recommended possible ways of including the documented Indigenous knowledge into mainstream adaptation strategies and Agricultural Curriculum in Nigeria.
      PubDate: 2023-05-04T06:47:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231169051
       
  • Conservation for self-determination: Salween Peace Park as an Indigenous
           Karen conservation initiative

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      Authors: Andrew Paul, Robin Roth, Saw Paul Sein Twa
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      States have long used protected areas to consolidate control over Indigenous Peoples’ territories, undermining community-based governance and access to resources. Despite this history, Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly designating their own protected areas to defend ancestral territories and assert self-determination. This paper examines Indigenous conservation politics in the Salween Peace Park in Kawthoolei, an autonomous territory of the Karen (Sino-Tibetan language-speaking peoples living primarily in Burma and along the Thai-Burma border). Local villagers and the Karen National Union envision the park as a grassroots initiative for peace in an area that has suffered decades of armed conflict between the Burmese military and the Karen movement for self-determination. Using the Salween Peace Park as a case study, we engage Indigenous scholarship on politics of recognition, resurgence, and refusal. We explore intersections and tensions between these political strategies, highlighting ways that Indigenous protected areas mobilize different forms of power to advance self-determination.
      PubDate: 2023-05-03T04:49:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231169044
       
  • Gathering our medicine: strengthening and healing kinship and community

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      Authors: Denise Findlay
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This article considers the terms culture and healing, critiques perpetuation of colonizing perspectives in conventional trauma-informed mental health approaches, and introduces Gathering Our Medicine, an innovative community framework created by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish; Coast Salish Peoples Indigenous to the lands of Southern British Columbia, Canada) practitioner Denise Findlay in response to the need for decolonial approaches to mental health for Indigenous communities throughout British Columbia, Canada. The framework encourages re-imagining healing and mental health practices through values such as lateral kindness that draw from distinct traditional Indigenous philosophies, ontologies, and epistemologies. By revitalizing and centring distinctive traditional knowledges about actualization, transformation, and healing, the framework provides a role for allies that disrupts the impulse to deny culpability that Indigenous scholar Susan Dion calls the perfect stranger position. Findlay provides an alternative—the imperfect friend—drawing on kinship practices as effective indirect praxis for collective healing and well-being, transforming the distanced expert into engaged community member.
      PubDate: 2023-05-03T04:48:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168178
       
  • Chikomexochitl: an Indigenous research methodology rooted in the Masewal
           people’s worldview

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      Authors: Hector Vazquez-Cordoba (Totonac), Jesús Alberto Flores Martínez (Masewal)
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Masewal (Indigenous people who live in the Huasteca region, Mexico) associate Chikomexochitl (seven flower or corn-child) to a ritual practice and also with the five stages of the development of corn, from seed until the harvest is completed. Just as corn grows, the five stages of the development of corn provides us with a framework to centre the importance of building relationships of trust that grow over time when doing research with Indigenous communities. First, we provide a description of the Huasteca region. We then engage in a critical discussion to challenge the dominant western positivist approach in research, which has historically served to undermine Indigenous perspectives as less valid forms of knowledge. Masewal people’s narratives give meaningful insight into the Masewal worldview and the importance of corn and the corn plant. Finally, we propose the use of Chikomexochitl as an Indigenous research methodology rooted in the Masewal worldview.
      PubDate: 2023-05-03T04:46:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168174
       
  • Indigenous relationality: definitions and methods

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      Authors: Matt Wildcat, Daniel Voth
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      The following seeks to advance relational research methods by providing more specificity in how relationality is defined, and by engaging commonly held refrains on relational research. Responding to concerns about Indigenous relationality being pan-Indigenous, we suggest a three-part framework that defines Indigenous relationality. First, relationality as a defining aspect of global Indigeneity; second, relational understandings that emerge from specific Indigenous nations and third, relationality as manifest within inter-Indigenous connections. Building on our definitional work, we argue that three common refrains within relational research methods should be extended. First, researchers should be able to balance a slippage between the particular context of Indigenous nations and the general context of Indigenous relationality. Second, we have to do more than simply value relationships, and consider how we use relationality for critical thinking. Finally, ensuring accountability within Indigenous research requires us to revisit how we analyze the concept of community.
      PubDate: 2023-05-02T05:16:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168380
       
  • The cost of Indigenous cultural safety training: examining facilitator
           burnout and the impacts on health and wellness

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      Authors: Tara Lise Erb, Charlotte Loppie
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This research represents an in-depth exploration of the lived experience, demands and risks of facilitating Indigenous cultural safety and the impact it has on the health and wellness of Indigenous cultural safety facilitators. Using Indigenous and qualitative methodologies, this study gathered data from 11 Indigenous cultural safety facilitators in the Vancouver Island and Vancouver regions through in-depth interviews. Issues around training, preparation, boundaries and capacity within Indigenous cultural safety spaces were examined, as well as the resistance, harm, violence, emotional taxation, hardships and burnout often experienced by Indigenous cultural safety facilitators. With a focus on how facilitating Indigenous cultural safety affects physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellness, as well as emphasizing the high risk of burnout, this research demonstrates that Indigenous cultural safety environments can be unsafe for Indigenous cultural safety facilitators and exposes a need to explore further how social and structural supports can better protect the health and wellness of Indigenous cultural safety facilitators.
      PubDate: 2023-05-02T05:14:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231168140
       
  • Initiating decolonization: from The Last Straw! to Whāriki

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      Authors: Robin Quigg, Fran Kewene, Kate C Morgaine
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      The board game, The Last Straw!, is part of the Aotearoa (New Zealand) public health and medical curriculum at the University of Otago. An engaging and effective teaching tool about the social determinants of health, the game falls short by being silent about Indigenous experiences. A project is underway to adapt The Last Straw! for play following an Indigenous framework, kaupapa Māori (Māori (Indigenous people of Aotearoa) approach). The game board is being redesigned as Whāriki, a woven mat. The mat represents a metaphor for life as strands of thread are woven throughout the lifecourse, and the thread characteristics impact the strength and qualities of the mat. This brief commentary outlines the first stage of adapting this resource, illustrating decolonizing the public health and medical curriculum in a way that honours and embeds te ao Māori (the Māori worldview), making them visible and intentional.
      PubDate: 2023-05-02T05:13:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167913
       
  • Colonial civilizing mission, Indigenous resistance, and witch-hunting in
           Anvita Dutt’s Bulbbul (2020)

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      Authors: Navin Sharma, Priyanka Tripathi
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Shashank Sinha, in his research on the practice of witch-hunting in the Adivasi (Indigenous or tribal) community of Chhotanagpur, Bengal, India, infers that witch-hunting as a practice was infused with gender and anti-colonial tensions. Relying on his data and findings about the unexpected surge of witch-hunting among the Indigenous people of Chhotanagpur, this research conducts a discourse analysis of the film text of Anvita Dutt’s film Bulbbul (Nightingale) (2020). Bulbbul explores the clash between the conventional gender roles assigned to Indian women and evolving socio-cultural standards around the equality of rights for women in the late 19th century. The film is a feminist stance on the politics of labelling rebellious women as witches and removing them through motivated witch-hunting. Through a close reading of Bulbbul, this article concludes that witch-hunting is a conscious Indigenous resistance and cultural politics in response to colonial civilizing missions in India by the British.
      PubDate: 2023-04-29T10:46:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231170270
       
  • Words to deeds: localising the vision of Uluru

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      Authors: Sharon Ann Louth, Veronica Bird, Joyce Bonner
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This article reports on the outcomes of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community–led project which sought to build a pathway to reconciliation through formulating a localised community response to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The research follows a phenomenological research design which collected qualitative data from lived experiences of the participants. Phenomenological analysis was conducted iteratively on the data where themes were identified as integral to achieve self-determination and reconciliation locally: respect, voice, truth, treaty and unity. Each theme comprised interconnected sub-themes where a Local Response to the Statement of Commitment was hewn from these results. This response will be used as a local charter to promote Memorandums of Understanding across the Fraser Coast region, Queensland, Australia, to improve life choices, control decision making and self-determination for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the region, enacting the vision of the Uluru Statement.
      PubDate: 2023-04-29T10:36:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167872
       
  • Pinhkngyan: paths taken to recognizing, doing and developing Indigenous
           methodologies

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      Authors: Wasiq Silan, Mai Camilla Munkejord
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      It is agreed that Indigenous scholars should be central in researching Indigenous issues. However, the literature on Indigenous research methodologies remains vague on who should be involved. This study aims to lower the entry barrier to Indigenous methodologies for anyone wholeheartedly committed to contribute to the decolonizing processes of Indigenous communities and beyond. We do so by exploring the main challenges experienced by the first author during her doctoral journey and highlighting how these challenges were dealt with. Four themes identified were as follows: (1) the colonial gaze, (2) battling with the concept of authenticity, (3) recognizing Indigeneity in the ordinary, and (4) reconciliation with the past to pave the way toward a better future. Three lessons learned are discussed. A vision for a more inclusive Indigenous inquiry is offered, suggesting that reconnection, reclaiming and sovereignty are key to establishing an ethical space between Indigenous ways of knowing and the existing dominant knowledge systems.
      PubDate: 2023-04-29T10:28:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167727
       
  • Beyond binaries: mixed-blood Indigenous inequalities

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      Authors: Heather Dicks
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores existing research related to mixed-blood Indigenous individuals in an effort to reveal a more complete picture of social inequality that exists within and between the binary categorization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous within Canada. Tracing a line through past and present discriminatory assimilationist policies, this article reveals the pervasive challenges associated with living as a mixed-blood Indigenous person in this country. Marked by a perpetual struggle to gain recognition from both Indigenous and settler populations, individuals living within this marginal identity face a structure of inequality that is little explored in contemporary research literature.
      PubDate: 2023-04-29T10:19:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167654
       
  • Experiences of whānau Māori caring for a young child on the
           autism spectrum

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      Authors: Jessica Tupou, Chevelle Rangimaria Ataera, Hannah Waddington
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This mixed-methods study aimed to explore the experiences and goals of Māori parents and whānau (families) caring for young autistic children. Data were collected via a rōpū kōrero (focus group) and an online questionnaire, with a total of 33 parents and whānau participating in at least one phase of the study. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse rōpū kōrero data with findings used to inform the design of an online questionnaire. Questionnaire responses were summarised using descriptive statistics. Results indicate that experience and perceived helpfulness of supports varied across participants. Communication and values-based goals were a high priority for most participants, and most rated cultural goals as important. Findings highlight the value of considering parent and whānau voices, especially those from Indigenous communities.
      PubDate: 2023-04-29T10:09:30Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167652
       
  • Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing) in Nature’s Way-Our Way: braiding physical
           literacy and risky play through Indigenous games, activities, cultural
           connections, and traditional teachings

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      Authors: Kathryn Riley, Amanda Froehlich Chow, Kathleen Wahpepah, M Louise Humbert, Mariana Brussoni, Natalie Houser, Marta C Erlandson
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Growing philosophical and empirical evidence shows that physical literacy and risky play enriches movement opportunities, while also fostering increased physical activity, wholistic health, and wellness across the lifespan. However, physical literacy and risky play have typically been theorized and practiced from a western worldview. In response, Nature’s Way-Our Way is an initiative designed to ground physical literacy and risky play in Indigenous games, activities, cultural connections, and traditional teachings, as enacted in Early Childhood Education Centres across Saskatchewan, Canada. This article explores Nature’s Way-Our Way’s theoretical underpinnings of Etuaptmumk (Two-Eyed Seeing), adopted to braid together the strengths of Indigenous Knowledges with western knowledge through practices of Indigenous métissage (land and story-based approaches to curriculum informed by relationality). Providing examples of culturally rooted resources, this article shows how the Nature’s Way-Our Way initiative supports Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty to foster increased physical activity, wholistic health, and wellness across the lifespan.
      PubDate: 2023-04-29T07:15:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167881
       
  • Indigenous refusals in educational leadership practices in Canadian
           universities

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      Authors: Candace Brunette-Debassige (Mushkego-ininew Cree)
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released 94 calls to action in 2015, Canadian universities have responded in numerous ways. A particularly significant response has been the creation of Indigenous Initiatives Offices and the appointment of senior leaders to help lead transformative institutional change efforts. Many of these new administrative appointments report directly to presidents and provosts, and have been taken up by Indigenous women. In this article, I present five key findings from research that explored the experiences of 12 Indigenous women administrators working in Canadian universities. The study highlighted how these Indigenous women enact Indigenous refusals as part of a transformative decolonial leadership praxis in universities.
      PubDate: 2023-04-26T05:11:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167876
       
  • Understanding camp dogs: the relationship between Aboriginal culture and
           western welfare

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      Authors: Bindi Bennett, Clare Archer-Lean
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines how rising concern for animal welfare in Australia is manifested in increased media coverage of these topics, including growing coverage of animal sentience, rights, and welfare. In Australia, canine existence is often determined by their positioning within cultural frames. Dogs have been integral to Aboriginal social, family, and environmental relationships for generations; however, colonisation brought fundamental changes to these established relationships, with ramifications that have prompted welfare concerns about camp dog populations. The goal of this article is to review existing research discourses and epistemological positioning of the supposed camp dog problem. We are not assessing individual programmes or reporting on fieldwork conducted with communities. Instead, this initial paper reviews some of the current literature to identify ways forward in facilitating Aboriginal self-determining of camp dog interactions in communities.
      PubDate: 2023-04-26T05:09:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167671
       
  • Māori realities, intimacies, and sexual expressions: reconceptualising
           consent to uphold kaumātua mana in aged residential care

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      Authors: Sandra McDonald, Mark Henrickson, Catherine Cook, Vanessa Schouten
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Increasingly, kaumātua (Māori elders) in Aotearoa (New Zealand) live apart from whānau (Māori extended family) in residential care, where policies are shaped by post-colonial legislation and ethical principles that privilege individual rights over Indigenous priorities and rights. The communal context of residential care has created late-life opportunity for intimacy and sexual expression with new partners. These issues are addressed in the international literature, highlighting the benefits and complexities. Literature report there may be clashes between resident and family members’ wishes, and tensions around privacy and consent. This article considers survey data and semi-structured interviews with kaimahi (Māori care workers) and a kaumātua who were part of a larger study of staff, residents, and family in the residential aged care context. Post-colonial individualistic rights-based approaches do not necessarily fit with a Māori worldview. A Māori-led articulation of consent is essential to uphold the mana (authority, influence, power) of kaumātua and whānau.
      PubDate: 2023-04-26T05:07:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231167647
       
  • Respecting diverse journeys on many roads: First Peoples of North America
           can guide us on our path toward precision home visiting

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      Authors: Lisa Martin, Allison Ingalls, Allison Barlow, Elizabeth Kushman, Amanda Leonard, Hellen Russette, Emily E Haroz
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Translation challenges persist among early childhood evidence-based home visiting programs. There is a need for a significant shift in the field to overcome the constraints of standardized home visiting interventions. A precision framework has been identified as a method to understand what is needed to address the unique needs of families. We argue that Indigenous experiences implementing home visiting programs overlap with precision home visiting because of the necessity to precisely tailor one-size-fits-all approaches to testing home visitation protocols that do not work for or were never tested in Indigenous communities. Indigenous values, ways of knowing, and worldviews resonate with precision approaches. We provide a concrete example of how these values guided the first pilot implementation study of a precision approach to home visiting called Precision Family Spirit. The process of designing Precision Family Spirit, coupled with considerations of Indigenous values, has much to teach about the need for precision home visiting.
      PubDate: 2023-04-25T05:22:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231169272
       
  • Debating the identity and indigeneity of the Batwa in post-genocide
           Rwanda: a review of the challenges and prospects from a human rights
           perspective

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      Authors: Jean Baptiste Ndikubwimana, Kathleen Ayako Anangwe, Oriare Nyarwath, Jack Busalile Mwimali, Charles Mulinda Kabwete
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      This study is a systematic review of the United Nations and African Union reports on the controversial identity of the Batwa and their recognition as an Indigenous people in post-genocide Rwanda. Using the criteria of inclusion and exclusion, 25 United Nations and African Union periodic reports dating from 2000 onwards were systematically selected and reviewed. The findings of the study indicate that both the United Nations and African Union agree and disagree on the position of the Government of Rwanda on the identity recognition and the strategies used to empower the Batwa. Therefore, lack of a unified position on the status of the Batwa grossly undermines the United Nations human rights–based approach leading to the violation of their rights. This study proposes a new thinking that rectifies the status of the Batwa as a historically marginalized people. The study also subscribes to the tenets of national unity advanced by the Government of Rwanda.
      PubDate: 2023-04-21T05:02:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231164424
       
  • Palliative care and quality of life needs and outcomes for Māori with
           cancer: what do we know'

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      Authors: Rhiannon Mihi Jones, Virginia Signal, Moira Smith, Jeannine Stairmand, Cheryl Davies, Jason Gurney
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      There are access, treatment and morbidity inequities for Māori (Indigenous people of New Zealand) with cancer in Aotearoa (New Zealand). This includes inequities in quality of life and experiences of the palliative care setting for Māori. This review included 20 papers that were identified through a combination of our literature review and key informant surveys. In this review, we consider the context of palliative care and cancer quality of care for Māori, draw on evidence regarding access and challenges for Māori with cancer in the palliative setting and discuss how to achieve palliative care equity for Māori with cancer. In Aotearoa, palliative care has fundamental underpinnings based on westernised understandings of health with a focus on addressing physical health aspects. Our findings highlight the misalignment of this approach with regard to Māori with cancer in the palliative care setting and to being able to fulfil their right to good health.
      Citation: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
      PubDate: 2023-04-04T04:47:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231163919
       
  • “A lot of people ignore our culture when it comes to waste
           management”: examining the impacts of culture on solid waste management
           in two Canadian First Nations

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      Authors: Anderson Assuah
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Municipal solid waste management approaches in Canadian First Nations have not considered the culture of communities. However, First Nations’ way of life is ingrained in their culture. This research examined whether the culture of First Nations impacts municipal solid waste management. A qualitative case study of Peguis First Nation, Manitoba, and Heiltsuk Nation, British Columbia, was conducted, involving 52 semi-structured interviews. Results revealed that avoiding waste, taking care of one another, protecting the land, respecting the land, and connection to the land were cultural factors that influenced participants’ municipal solid waste management efforts. Nonetheless, participants indicated that applying these cultural factors to municipal solid waste is not widespread because of culture loss; hence, programs that improve the understanding of culture and highlight the importance of cultural beliefs, values, and teachings in managing waste should be developed. The research concludes that cultural solutions need to be pursued to complement other solutions that aim to improve municipal solid waste management.
      PubDate: 2023-03-29T10:43:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231163635
       
  • Indigenous Elder-centered methodology: research that decolonizes and
           indigenizes

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      Authors: Maria C Crouch (Deg Hit’an; Coahuiltecan), Steffi M Kim, Zayla Asquith-Heinz, Elyse Decker, Nyché T Andrew (Yup’ik, Inupiaq), Jordon P Lewis (Aleut), Rosellen M Rosich
      Abstract: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Ahead of Print.
      Indigenous research posits that practice-based evidence is fundamental to culturally grounded, multifaceted methods. The objective is to outline the key tenets and characteristics of Elder-centered research and relevant methodology using an interconnected progression of Alaska Native studies. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 Alaska Native Elders, 21 Alaska Native caregivers, and 12 Alaska Native and non-Native caregivers in two studies exploring cultural understandings of memory and successful aging. The design and implementation of these studies employed Elders at every level, ensuring cultural relevance, outcomes, and dissemination. Results reflect the benefits of engaging Alaska Native Elders in research and reveal methods for best practices: (a) creating advisory councils, (b) identifying stakeholders, (c) weaving together Elder and western knowledge systems, and (d) the reciprocal nature of Elder engagement and well-being. This research centers Indigenous values and research for an Elder-centered methodology that encourages engagement of older adults in applicable, meaningful, restorative, and enculturated ways.
      PubDate: 2023-03-16T10:04:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/11771801231155437
       
 
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