Native Health Initiative
509 Gomez Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
ph: 505-340-5656
shannon
Indigenous 101
NHI's guide for persons working with, or about to work with American Indian communities. While brief, this is intended to serve as a primer, an introduction to some of the ethical, historical, and cultural issues involved in working with American Indian/Indigenous communities.
Session #1 - Introduction to American Indian (AI) communities
Reading - Indigenist perspective on health
Session #2 - AI Health through the lens of Health Equity
Reading - Persistence of Health Inequities
Reading - Eliminating Health Disparities
Session #3 - The Importance of Ownership and Owning Up to OUR history
As Tribes have endured centuries of being told what to do and how to do it by outsiders (Europeans), it is important that we know some of the context of that which we are coming into.
Genocide in the name of Civilizing, Christianity...boarding schools that ran under the slogan "Kill the Indian, Save the Man"... sterilization campaigns...and the scary thing is that these are all things that our grandparents and great-grandparents lived through, Indian or not.
--> We encourage you to explore and learn a bit, even if it is just on one topic relating to the treatment of American Indians in this Country
-- Clips from the documentary "The Canary Effect"
--Brief history of American Indian Boarding schools
--> Current day versions of "Stealing" from the wealth of Indian traditions, by stealing the Medicine Ways of these Tribes
Session #4 - A Brief Look at the current-day health of American Indians in NC and NM
Though we are 2,000 miles apart in our projects this summer, we are very much unified, beginning with a loud, raucus phone call we are planning between the NC and NM folks during orientation weekend.
How are the Tribal Nations different between the two places?
What does their respective health look like?
Please read a bit about both your site's landscape and also the site you won't be going to...enjoy!
New Mexico
North Carolina
509 Gomez Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87102
ph: 505-340-5656
shannon
