Culture, Colonization and Policy Making: Issues in Native American Health
To improve health care, education, and prevention, a larger cultural and historical contextual framework is needed which pays heed to the impact of colonization and its effects on Native peoples. Such a holistic framework evaluates the long-term impact of introduced diseases and the cultural trauma caused by the removal of Indians to reservations (Jaimes 1992), the boarding school era (Johansen 2000), and the forced sterilizations of Native women (Carpio 1995; Torpy 1998). Racism and discrimination in mainstream medical systems and American culture continue to impact Native health, but are rarely addressed in wellness programs and health policies. The struggles of Native people to have treaty rights honored for land, hunting, and fishing also have repercussions for health and cultural wellness. It follows that health care policies for Native Americans should also include reparations policies, as Canada has done by setting up a $350 million healing fund for the survivors of the boarding school era (Macqueen 2000). This fund is meant to deal with the emotional, physical, and cultural trauma that came from the sexual and emotional abuse within those institutional contexts purporting to “educate” Native Americans.
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The European colonization of the Americas always afflicted the lives and cultures of the Native Americans. In the 15th to 19th centuries, their populations were ravaged, by the privations of displacement, by disease, and in abounding cases by warfare with European groups and enslavement by them. The aboriginal Native American accumulation encountered by Columbus, the 250,000 Arawaks of Haiti, were enslaved. Only 500 survived by the year 1550, and the accumulation was abolished afore 1650.
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Dawn Morrison wrote:
Posted Tue, 01/26/2010 - 12:11am
I haven't read the whole paper and it is written for policy making in the U.S.A. I still think parts of it would be relevant for Indigenous communities dealing with affects of colonization in what is known to the settlers as the Dominion of Canada.