Decolonizing Mindsets: A return to traditional/natural childbirths
Desiree Herrera
Santa Clara Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo
Desiree Herrera
Santa Clara Pueblo, Santo Domingo Pueblo
Armstrong gives a strong perspective of the British Colombian region and how it reflects who she is. The word Okanagan has three vital parts of understanding with deeper meanings to the people. They as a whole, like many other communities, have a developed idea of their normal and what health looks to them and when something that differs from their ideology they look down on it. She goes on to explain that there will always be differences amongst people. No matter where we go there will be something new to us and we may not understand it but we have the ability to learn from it.
Perry uses change as a strong introduction. We constantly hear about how change is inevitable and that we can do anything about it. He acknowledges that we cannot change our roots and our unique connection to the earth and the lives that have roamed it before us. Natives have been facing issues for years ranging from housing to racial injustice, sad to say the fight doesn't seem to be coming to an end. There is no definite way to determine a Native American, we can not simply say yes and no to it. The identity is fluid but often misunderstood and thought to be a little thing. Horse concluded the piece with a passage of recommendations to help preserve the Native American identity.
Indigenous people have faced countless hardships since the beginning of time. BigFoot opens the article with background information on what is current and historical trauma within Indian country. People must be willing to look into federal policy and understand how it impacts indigenous communities today. We then need to look at the current status of indigenous youth. BigFoot gives various statistics of how native youth are at higher risk for substance abuse, domestic abuse, mental illnesses, suicide, and death. She explains how the judicial system is often a rotating door from minorities especially indigenous youth. With various health complications that were brought by colonizers, natives also face a lot of developmental disabilities. There are treatments and services that youth and other native members can look into for assistance. There are steps to help recover from the trauma we as indigenous people suffer.
Lucero had written an article on a study done to uncover how urban natives maintain a cultural identity outside of their sacred lands. Focusing primarily on the women, fourteen women from five different tribes offered a way for people to understand how they live. Cultural connectedness has three interacting elements: relatedness to other Native people; active cultural involvement; and cultural knowledge. Relocation has been the biggest threat to natives' connectedness to their identity. Cultural identity and cultural connectedness were found to be distinct constructs. Identity is a stable constituent of the self that thinks, feels, and acts Indian. Connectedness occurs through relationships and cultural involvement and knowledge. Adaptation to the non-Indian environment strengthens urban Indian women's identity. Lucero concludes the article by sharing that many of the women felt as though identity develops over time and is built by the individual's experiences and life lessons.
This article primarily focuses on the origin of natural childbirth in Britain. The article explores the very complex set of beliefs and practices done by examining the ideas of the Britain pioneers at the time. People had become fond of childbirth because it has been relayed on the belief that it could provide a “holistic approach.” Natural childbirth was seen as a way to ease childbirth in general for everyone and therefore made it a more amazing experience. Natural childbirth is an approach characterized by a bias towards physical and mental hygiene in the management of pregnancy and birth.
A declaration was made by the World Health Organization in 1978 that health is, “health, which is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, is a fundamental human right…” The most spectacular changes in the medical scene during the 20th century, and the most widely heralded, was the development of potent drugs and elaborate operations, another striking change included the abandonment of most of the remedies of the past.