History
Ceremonies, plant-based medicines, Elders' prayers and counselling and other techniques to promote an individual's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being
What is traditional medicine?
A network of boarding schools for Indigenous children
What is Indian Residential School?
Their mission states: to improve the health of Indigenous Peoples, by supporting Indigenous Nurses and by promoting the development and practice of Indigenous Health Nursing
Who is CINA - Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association?
Unregulated service providers in Meno Ya Win Health Centre who help bridge communication barriers
What are interpreters?
The treaty area Sioux Lookout is in
What is Treaty 3 territory?
Constitutionally recognized agreements between the Crown and Indigenous Peoples
What are treaties?
A chronic disease that contributes to higher morbidity and increased health disparities when compared to non-indigenous Canadians
What is diabetes?
Transforming the health of Anishinaabe people across Kiiwetinoong by providing community-led services and a strong voice for their community health needs
What is Sioux Lookout First Nation Health Authority (SLFNHA)?
Occurs when the effects of trauma are passed down between generations
What is intergenerational trauma?
A person who claims Indigenous identity to access funding supports and more
What is a pretendian?
The original inhabitants of the land that is now Canada, the holders of unique languages, knowledge systems and beliefs and possess invaluable knowledge of practices for the sustainable management of natural resources.
What is Indigenous People?
An institution that admitted patients based on race rather than disease
What is an Indian hospital?
A program that ensures First Nations children can access the products, services and supports they need, when they need them
What is Jordan's Principle?
Seeking to restore a relationship that existed before harm was done from one person to another?
What is restorative justice?
The definition of Meno Ya Win
What is health, wellness, and well-being?
Policies formed by the federal government used to govern over status Indians, and in attempt to assimilate them into a non-indigenous society?
What is the Indian Act?
A serious condition that plays a role in the increasing incarceration rates of indigenous people
What is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)?
The act of closing the gaps in social, health, and economic outcomes that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada
What is reconciliation?
The balance and inter-relationships of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of a being
What is a holistic view of health?
What are the 7 Grandfather teachings?
The mass removal of Indigenous children from their families into a child welfare system in order to assimilate culture and communities?
What is the 60's scoop?
Low population density, a lack of transportation infrastructure, long wait times, high rates of staff turnover, harsh weather climates, and inadequate human resources
What are barriers for health care in Indigenous communities?
In 2015, the Canadian Government launched this inquiry to identify root causes of this violence and to develop solutions to resolve this crisis
What is the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls?
The impositions of their own cultural values, religions, laws and policies that does not favour the original people of the land
What is colonization?
The loose translation for "Baamapii"
Until we meet again