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- Title
Linking land displacement and environmental dispossession to Mi'kmaw health and well‐being: Culturally relevant place‐based interpretive frameworks matter.
- Authors
Lewis, Diana; Castleden, Heather; Apostle, Richard; Francis, Sheila; Francis‐Strickland, Kim
- Abstract
For over five decades, Pictou Landing First Nation, a small Mi'kmaw community on the northern shore of Nova Scotia, has been told that the health of its community is not impacted by a pulp and paper mill pouring 85 million litres of effluent per day into a lagoon that was once a culturally significant place known as "A'se'k," and which borders the community. Based on lived experience, the community knows otherwise. Despite countless government‐ and industry‐sponsored studies indicating the mill's pollutants are merely "nuisance" impacts and harmless, the community's concerns have not gone away. Using a "Piktukowaq" (Mi'kmaw) environmental health research framework to guide the interpretation of oral histories coming from the Knowledge Holders in Pictou Landing First Nation, we convey the deep, health‐enhancing relationship with A'se'k that the Piktukowaq enjoyed before it was destroyed, and the health suppression that has occurred since then. Conducting the research using a culturally relevant place‐based interpretive framework has demonstrated the absolute necessity of this kind of approach where Indigenous communities are concerned, particularly those facing health impacts vis‐à‐vis land displacement and environmental dispossession. Key Messages: Land displacement and environmental dispossession affect Indigenous health and well‐being.Culturally relevant place‐based interpretive frameworks matter when determining impacts of development.Government‐ and industry‐sponsored research that does not consider place‐based identities will continue to be irrelevant to Indigenous communities impacted by development.
- Subjects
NOVA Scotia; ORAL interpretation; PULP mills; PAPER mills; PAPER pulp; LAGOONS; ENVIRONMENTAL health; ORAL history
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2021, Vol 65, Issue 1, p66
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12656