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- Title
Narrative as Lived Experience.
- Authors
Wesley-Esquimaux, Cynthia
- Abstract
My concern is these serious issues will continue to worsen, as a domino effect that our Ancestors have warned us of in their Prophecies (Arvol Looking Horse, May 2010). Aboriginal peoples have walked a long way through a landscape of loss and determination since early contact with Europeans. Today Indigenous authors, healers and spokespeople are asking our people to awaken fully and begin the process of reviving and practicing the seven sacred values that guided our ancestors and ensured that we might live today. The Prophesies and Creation stories contain the encouragement our people need to unburden themselves of deeply embedded historic trauma and loss. We have work to do; to tell our own stories, to actively participate in rescripting the narrative of our lives and representations, and to do this in our own voices (Nissley, 2009). This paper is a narrative of the historic challenges that have shadowed the many since 'his-story' began interspersed with the story of my own lived experience. 65 Indigneous peoples have increasingly called for disaggregated data to inform policy and practice and yet there has been very little discourse on how to "Indigenenize" quantitative research. This article provides a synopsis of Indigenous research goals before moving onto describe how quantitative research can be placed in an Indigenous envelope to advance Indigenous child health and welfare policy goals.
- Subjects
NORTH America; INDIGENOUS peoples; EUROPEANS; CHILDREN'S health; LEGAL status of Native American children; PUBLIC welfare policy; NARRATIVES; ORAL history; HISTORY
- Publication
First Peoples Child & Family Review, 2010, Vol 5, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
1708-489X
- Publication type
Article