Competency 10

Engage, honor, and respect indigenous culture towards decolonized professional practice.

Fairness and justice for indigenous people and respect for traditional ways of knowing requires understanding processes that actively seek to decolonize dominant cultural hegemony. Social workers are informed about institutional barriers and cultural intolerance; strive to eliminate all forms of injustice; and, acknowledge the inalienable rights of indigenous people to self-determine.

10.1 understand the impact of inhabitation and occupation of indigenous lands and the affects of historic cultural trauma on the lives and experience of indigenous people;

10.2 recognize the significance of place in developing and communicating culturally resonant practice;

10.3 respect host traditions, protocols, ceremony, guesthood, and spirituality as central to decolonized professional practice;

10.4 demonstrate knowledge of their own culture and associated beliefs, values and practices.

Readings

Articles 

Native Hawaiian Interdisciplinary Health Program: Decolonizing Academic Space, Curriculum, and Instruction

‘Anakē Lynette Kahekili Kaopuiki Paglinawan: Following in the Steps of Her Ancestors

Using the Lōkahi Wheel: A Culturally Sensitive Approach to Engage Native Hawaiians in Child Welfare Services

He Ala Kuikui Lima Kānaka: The Journey Toward Indigenizing a School of Social Work

Living Hawaiian Rituals: Lua, Ho‘oponopono, and Social Work

A Social Worker’s Reflections on Power, Privilege, and Oppression

Culturally Relevant Evaluation and Assessment Hawai‘i (CREA-HI) Publications

Decolonization and Healing: Indigenous Experiences in the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Greenland

A Social Worker’s Guide to Decolonizing the Field of Social Work, University of Buffalo School of Social Work

Colonization and Violence against Women 

On Silence and Dominant Accountability: A Critical Anticolonial Investigation of the Antiracism Classroom 

Process of Decolonization - Poka Laenui

e-Book

Mana Lāhui Kānaka - a multidimensional study of mana: what it is, how to articulate it, and how to access and cultivate it.

Journal Issue

Special Issue: Reckoning and Reconciliation: Decolonizing Social Work Education. A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice.

Websites

Nā Hopena A‘o (HĀ) - Department of Education framework to develop the skills, behaviors and dispositions that are reminiscent of Hawaiʻi’s unique context, and to honor the qualities and values of the indigenous language and culture of Hawaiʻi. 

The Culture Tree!

Land Acknowledgement 

UHM Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office

Mānoa Multilayered Map Signage

AVA Konohiki webpage

Location Map Research

Trauma Related

Trauma Informed Task Force Recommendations

Videos

Indigenous Health & Well-Being Colloquium Series (Established by HUNAP Faculty Director Joseph P. Gone and is co-sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health & Social Medicine.)