Current Issues

COLONIZATION

Defined as:

Experienced as:

Colonization Roads

Comedian Ryan McMahon travels Ontario's colonization roads learning about their impact on First Nations and settlers.

https://gem.cbc.ca/media/firsthand/season-2/episode-9/38e815a-00b9abca4fc

Useful Links:

The erasure of Indigenous thought in foreign policy

https://www.opencanada.org/features/erasure-indigenous-thought-foreign-policy/

The Politics of Erasure

https://www.sfu.ca/brc/online_exhibits/spruce-root-weaving/the-politics-of-erasure.html

Below you will find information about the ongoing trauma caused to individuals and communities through the experience of residential schools.

1. GENERATIONAL TRAUMA

Can trauma have genetic effects across generations?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-236-transgender-parenting-trauma-and-genetics-bobby-baun-gun-lobbyists-vs-bill-c-51-more-1.3098757/can-trauma-have-genetic-effects-across-generations-1.3098819

2. SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Anishinabek Nations Indian Residential School Commemoration Project at http://www.anishinabek.ca/irscphome/

3. LOSS OF LANGUAGE

Language is a crucial component to not only culture, but respect in dealing with one another. Your point "This could result in being untreated, misdiagnosed, and not having their needs met in a Western healthcare system. " immediately reminds me of a few points I read from: https://healthydebate.ca/2016/01/topic/8-steps-toward-addressing-indigenous-health-inequities

1. "“You need to engage with the community and culture to appreciate its challenges and its resilience, to build good relationships with patients, and to feel rewarded in the work you do.”

2. "Notoriously, Brian Sinclair died of a bladder infection after health professionals largely ignored him for 34 hours, assuming he was sleeping off drunkenness."

3. "health workers should question their treatment of Indigenous patients, Lafontaine says, asking, “Am I diagnosing based on what the patient is telling me and test results, or is prejudice factoring in?”

4. "classic cognitive behavioral therapists typically don’t have comprehensive trauma training and can unintentionally re-traumatize clients."

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XykTivwkeO_CYklXzFPmMNK9uBOoCku7TCy-UTJae7Q/edit?usp=sharing