CLOSING THE CIRCLE - FALL 2017

 

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Welcome

 

Welcome to the 2017 fall newsletter of the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH). I am delighted to announce the official launch of our new and more responsive NCCAH website! You will notice this responsivity of our web design when you next visit us online. This means that all of our online publications, including our multimedia resources, can now be easily viewed on the device of your choice including desktops, tablets, and phones.

 

I invite you to take a few moments to peruse the new website to view new resources, including new reports on Indigenous health and well-being, updated fact sheets on the determinants of health, and our continued Voices from the Field podcast series on innovative research on Indigenous health. For World Heart Health Day (September 29, 2017), we are pleased to showcase a podcast on the mite achimowin (Heart Talk): First Nations Women Expressions of Heart Health study as well as four digital stories produced by First Nations women from Manitoba who participated in the project.

 

We continue to be busy beyond the virtual world. In the past several months, we have participated in the 2017 Learning Institute: Reconciling Indigenous Research Relationships (Victoria, June 29, 2017), the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (Toronto, July 24 -28, 2017), and the first National Elder's Gathering 2017: Coming home, voices from Elders (Edmonton, September 11-14, 2017). I also look forward to attending the launch of the book Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: What Inuit Have Always Known to Be True, along with the book's editors (Ottawa, October 30, 2017).

 

Finally, I would like to congratulate our colleague Dr. Sarah de Leeuw for her recent appointment as a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists and for the announcement of her non-fiction book of essays Where It Hurts as a finalist for the 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards.

 

In closing, if you are interested in knowing about all of our publications, please see the resource booklet. Be sure to visit our website or subscribe to our mailing list to receive notifications of newly released NCCAH resources, upcoming webinars and our regular quarterly newsletters. Please enjoy and share our knowledge resources with your community and networks and join us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Vimeo, YouTube, SoundCloud, or ISSUU to participate in updates as they happen! On behalf of all the staff at the NCCAH, I hope you enjoy the beauty and abundance of the fall season.

 

Meegwetch

 

Margo Greenwood, Academic Leader
National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH)

 

 

 

NCCAH News

The Aboriginal Health Researchers at Canadian Universities resource now digitized

The Aboriginal Health Researchers at Canadian Universities resource has now been digitized and is available as a searchable feature on the new web site. This resource is a comprehensive listing of researchers who are affiliated with a Canadian university and have a wide range of expertise related to the health of Indigenous peoples. These researchers have undertaken some form of research related to the health and well-being of First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis peoples, ranging from one study to a lifetime of work in a particular area. Additionally, from the same resource, research institutes and organizations from across Canada undertaking Indigenous health research and knowledge translation are also listed and searchable.

 

The NCCAH invites review of these digitized resources and feedback, suggested resources, or entry edits can be sent to nccah@unbc.ca.

 

 

Attended Events

Upcoming Events

 

2017 Learning Institute: Reconciling Indigenous Research Relationships

 

Victoria, British Columbia, June 29, 2017. Conference web site link


World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE)

 

Toronto, Ontario, July 24 -28, 2017. Conference web site link


National Elder's Gathering 2017: Coming home, voices from Elders

 

Edmonton, Alberta, September 11-14, 2017. Conference web site link


2017 CIPHI Annual Educational Conference

 

Brampton, Ontario, October 1-4, 2017. Conference web site link


Please visit the online NCCAH calendar of events, which highlights conferences, workshops, and other events of interest in the field of Aboriginal Health including regional, national and global listings.

 

 

 
 

25th International RECE Conference

 

Toronto, Ontario, October 24-27. Conference web site link


BCACCS 20th Annual Provincial Training Conference

 

Vancouver, British Columbia, October 27-29. Conference web site link


Book launch - Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: What Inuit Have Always Known to Be True

 

Ottawa, Ontario, October 30. Book launch link


Send us an email to nccah@unbc.ca with "Calendar Submission" in the subject line if you have an event you would like added to our calendar.

 

 

 

New NCCAH Resources

 

Indigenous Communities and Family Violence: Changing the conversation

 

This report includes a critical discourse analysis of Canadian literature on Indigenous family violence over a fifteen year period (2000-2015). A number of themes were identified and used to structure the examination of the literature, including: naming violence, defining family violence, rates of violence, analysis of gender and sexuality, causes of violence, colonization, normalization, silence and hiding violence, family, health, geographic considerations, and solutions.

 

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Indigenous Communities and
Family Violence: Changing the conversation by Cindy Holmes, PhD,
and Sarah Hunt, PhD

 

 


 

Indigenous Children and the Child Welfare System in Canada

 

This fact sheet is contextualized by the specific Calls to Action on child welfare, set out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. It begins by reviewing the historical context in which First Nations, Inuit and Metis children were removed from their communities and families, including the Indian Residential School system and the "Sixties Scoop". It then turns to an overview of the current Indigenous child welfare framework in Canada. The fact sheet concludes by stating that reforms to Indigenous child welfare are the first priority in Canada's journey towards reconciliation.

 

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Indigenous Children and the
Child Welfare System in Canada

 

 


 

Reconciliation in First Nations child welfare

 

This factsheet touches upon how the current overrepresentation of First Nations children in out-of-home care is inextricably linked to larger structural factors related to colonization, including the legacy of Residential Schools, family poverty and chronic underfunding of services on reserves. It expresses that Canada is at critical point for reconciliation, particularly with the release of the report and Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the 2016 ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on First Nations child welfare and Jordan's Principle.

 

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Reconciliation in
First Nations child welfare

 

 


 

"Voices from the Field" Podcast Series

 

The Voices from the Field, a podcast series produced by the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH), focuses on innovative research and community-based initiatives promoting the health and well-being of First Nation, Inuit and Metis peoples in Canada.

 

Listen to the complete SoundCloud playlist

 

 

 

Episode 04 - mite achimowin (Heart Talk): First Nations Women Expressions of Heart Health study with Lorena Fontaine, Annette Schultz and Lisa Forbes

 

This podcast was recorded with the mite achimowin (Heart Talk) project team, including co-investigators Lorena Fontaine (University of Winnipeg) and Dr. Annette Schultz (University of Manitoba) and project coordinator Lisa Forbes. This audio recording provides an overview of the project and the main themes that resulted from the project. The research team acknowledges research collaborator Ivan Berkowitz, who enthusiastically introduced Lorena and Annette to each other and encouraged the mite achimowin project even in his final days.

 

Listen on SoundCloud | Speaker bios & transcript

 

 

Episode 04 with Lorena Fontaine,
Annette Schultz and Lisa Forbes

 

 

 

Episode 05 - From the Lab to the Reserve: The Transformative Power of Community-Engaged Scholarship with Dr. Lalita Bharadwaj

 

This episode is based on a keynote presentation delivered by Dr. Lalita Bharadwaj at the fourth annual "Create H2O" First Nations Water Research Conference, organized by the University of Manitoba's Centre for Human Rights Research (June 1-2, 2017). Her keynote began with a personal story of how she moved from working as an academic in a laboratory to working with First Nations communities. She offered up key reflections and practical tips learned along this fifteen year journey, including how to do research that is grounded in relationships, community ethics and community-based participatory research methods, which result in meaningful, beneficial and team-based knowledge production and translation.

 

This episode was produced by NCCAH in conjunction with the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) and the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH).

 

Listen on SoundCloud | Speaker bio & transcript

 

 

Episode 05 with
Dr. Lalita Bharadwaj

 

 

 

Episode 06 - Water: Our First Relative, Our First Responsibility with Dr. Priscilla Settee

 

This episode is based on a keynote presentation delivered by Dr. Priscilla Settee at the fourth annual "Create H2O" First Nations Water Research Conference, organized by the University of Manitoba's Centre for Human Rights Research (June 1-2, 2017). Grounded in a human rights perspective, Dr. Settee referred to a number of organizations and reports focused on water crises, including unresolved drinking water advisories and the resulting social and health impacts experienced by First Nations communities across Canada.

 

This episode was produced by NCCAH in conjunction with the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID) and the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH).

 

Listen on SoundCloud | Speaker bio & transcript

 

 

Episode 06 with Dr. Priscilla Settee

 

 


 

mite achimowin (Heart Talk): First Nations Women Expressions of Heart Health

 

The mite achimowin (Heart Talk): First Nations Women Expressions of Heart Health study received funding from the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research; Aboriginal People's Health Institute) and SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) through the Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network in partnership with Nanaandawewigamig. The study, which took place in Winnipeg over 2015-2016, was a collaboration between the University of Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba.

 

Read the web story | Watch the videos series on Vimeo | Listen to the SoundCloud Playlist

 

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Episode 01 - "E THEE NEW ISKWEW OTE - Cree Women's Heart" by Christina Baker and Mabel Horton

 

Christina Baker and Mabel Horton both live in Winnipeg. Christina is Cree from Split Lake (Tataskweyak Cree Nation) which is 900 kilometers north of Winnipeg. She and her family members have heart health issues. Mabel is Christina's niece. She is Cree and a member of Nisichawayasihk First Nation (Nelson House) located 850 kilometers north of Winnipeg. She cares for family members with heart health issues. Their collaborative video features images from their family camp. They describe the importance of traditional foods, physical activity, and ways of being healthy. Christina and Mabel narrate their story in their first language - Cree - to talk of the importance today of eating well and keeping active.

 

Watch the video (Cree with English subtitles)
Listen on SoundCloud (Cree)

 

 

Episode 01 by Christina Baker
and Mabel Horton
(Cree)

 

 

 

Episode 02 - "My Heartbeat" by Eliza Beardy

 

Eliza Beardy is Oji Cree from Wasagamack First Nation, Manitoba, a fly-in community 600 kilometers north of Winnipeg. She currently lives in Winnipeg and cares for family members with heart health issues. Eliza's video features images of her parents, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren as she describes the importance of family relationships and bonds to heart health. As a residential school survivor, she speaks of the lasting heart break experienced by parents and children as a result of separation due to residential schools.

 

Watch the video | Listen on SoundCloud

 

 

Episode 02 by
Eliza Beardy

 

 

 

Episode 03 - "NIIN INTEPACHIMOWIN - My heart story" by Virginia Mckay

 

Virginia McKay is Saultaux and lives in Berens River First Nation, Manitoba, which is a fly-in community 270 kilometers from Winnipeg. She and a family member have heart health issues. Virginia shares two short stories. The first describes the enduring love and pride of her grandchild and the importance of the family relationship and values. Her second story features the landscape of Berens River First Nation and a story of racial discrimination experienced by a family member as he sought medical care for a serious health issue.

 

Watch the video | Listen on SoundCloud

 

 

Episode 03 by
Virginia Mckay

 

 

 

Episode 04 - "MITE MEKIWIN - Gift of the Heart" by Esther Sanderson

 

Esther Sanderson is Cree from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (the Pas, Manitoba). The Pas is 630 kilometers north of Winnipeg. Her video describes her personal journey of the spirit and mind during her heart transplant surgery. She also shares the importance of family bonds and cultural knowledge during her recovery.

 

Watch the video | Listen on SoundCloud

 

 

Episode 04 by
Esther Sanderson

 

 

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Online Resources

 

In support of creating a health community focused on knowledge synthesis, transfer and exchange we have chosen a sampling of current online resources to share. Please note the links provided in the NCCAH newsletters are for general interest only and do not indicate an endorsement. The views expressed in the linked resources do not necessarily represent the views of the NCCAH or our funder the Public Health Agency of Canada.

 

Send us an email to nccah@unbc.ca with "Online Resource" in the subject line if you have an online resource you would like added to our next newsletter.

 

 

Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit: What Inuit Have Always Known to Be True. Edited by J. Karetak, F. Tester and S. Tagalik

 
 

Listening to the Beat of Our Drum: Indigenous Parenting in a Contemporary Society. Edited by C. Bourassa, Elder B. McKenna & D. Juschka

 
 

The Medicine of Peace: Indigenous Youth Decolonizing Healing and Resisting Violence by J. Ansloos

 
 

International Journal of Indigenous Health (IJIH), September 2017, Vol. 12, Issue 2

 
 

International Indigenous Policy Journal (IIPJ), Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2017

 
 

Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing (JIW), Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2017

 
 

Inuktitut Magazine, Issue 121

 
 

First Peoples Child and Family Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2017

 
 

The Northern Review, No. 45, 2017

 
 

The Canadian Geographer - Writing as righting: Truth and reconciliation, poetics, and new geo-graphing in colonial Canada by Sarah de Leeuw

 
 

Canadian Journal of Children's Rights - Language, Culture, and Early Childhood: Indigenous Children's Rights in a Time of Transformation by Margo Greenwood

 
 

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples - Turning a new page: cultural safety, critical creative literary interventions, truth and reconciliation, and the crisis of child welfare by S. de Leeuw & M. Greenwood

 
 

Caring Society Newsletter, Fall 2017

 
 

Aboriginal Insight National Newsletter, Fall 2017

 
 

National Aboriginal Diabetes Association (NADA) Newsletter, September 2017

 
 

Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) - Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities: Closing the gap in health and education outcomes for Indigenous children in Canada

 
 

Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) - The Impact of the Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) Program on School Readiness Skills

 
 

Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) - Tips for parents and caregivers to support young Indigenous children's talking, listening, and learning

 
 

Statistics Canada - Acute care hospitalization of Aboriginal children and youth

 
 

Cancer Care Ontario - Cancer risk factors and screening among Inuit in Ontario and other Canadian regions

 
 

Statistics Canada - Housing conditions and respiratory hospitalizations among First Nations people in Canada

 
 

Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) - Pathways To Reconciliation

 
 

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) - 2016-2017 Annual Report

 
 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Annual Report 2016-17

 

 

Online Multimedia

 

This section features infographics, interactives, apps or videos that we found interesting or educational. Please note the links provided in the NCCAH newsletters are for general interest only and do not indicate an endorsement. The views expressed in the linked resources do not necessarily represent the views of the NCCAH or our funder the Public Health Agency of Canada.

 

Send us an email if you have multimedia resources you would like included in our next newsletter to nccah@unbc.ca with "Multimedia Submission" in the subject line.

 

 

1) In memory of Gord Downie, who passed Tuesday October 17 surrounded by family and friends, we are sharing "The Secret Path" video to honour his reconciliation work to bring awareness to the history of residential schools and the story of Chanie Wenjack.

 

2) Highlights from the Elder-Youth Dialogue, hosted by the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health (IAPH) at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), held during March 12-15, 2017, on the unceded and traditional territories of the Algonquin Peoples.

 

3) In the first "Teachings in the Air" podcast episode, titled "The Fit Nation", host Gerry Oleman speaks with the I·SPARC FitNation team about the benefits of being physically active. "Teachings In The Air" is a new podcast focusing on Indigenous men's health and wellness.

 

 

 

The NCCs of NCCPH

 
 

The NCCs of NCCPH work together to promote and improve the use of scientific research and other knowledge to strengthen public health practices and policies in Canada. We identify knowledge gaps, foster networks and translate existing knowledge to produce and exchange relevant, accessible, and evidence-informed products with practitioners, policy makers and researchers.

 

Read the latest NCC e-bulletin

 

Population Mental Health Promotion for Children and Youth

 
 

The six NCCs for Public Health collaborated on a project focused on population mental health promotion for children and youth. With Mental Illness Awareness Week this past October 1st to 7th, and World Mental Health Day on October 10th, the NCCAH shared the paper Considerations for Indigenous child and youth population mental health promotion in Canada to bring awareness to these observational days and the NCCs collaborative collection of work on this topic.

 

The NCCAH paper aims to improve understandings of Indigenous mental health in Canada, and demonstrate how particular determinants either contribute to increased risk for mental illness or act as protective factors for positive mental health.

 

The NCCs Population mental health promotion for children and youth collection includes topical papers, background information, and a resource scan.

 

Read the full NCCPH article
Download the NCCs Population Mental Health Promotion collection