scholarly journals “It’s Just Gravel”: The Logic of Elimination in Edmonton’s Downtown Revitalization

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Kate Black
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Downtown Revitalization ◽  
Perceived Danger ◽  
The City ◽  
Empty Area

Edmonton’s burgeoning “Ice District" has been a frosty source of contention in the city. But criticism of the Ice District — which has ranged from its name to its funding — has hardly addressed the project’s positioning in a larger event of settler colonialism. By analyzing recent news coverage and an interview with a stakeholder in Edmonton’s urban development, I argue that the city’s downtown revitalization disregards urban aboriginal sovereignty. I find that Edmonton’s downtown core is a uniquely aboriginal space, with nearly 50 per cent of Edmonton’s urban homeless population being aboriginal-identified, while aboriginal peoples only constitute less than 6 per cent of the greater Edmonton population. In conjunction with language seeking to “cleanse” the area of perceived danger and imprint capitalist productivity in an “empty” area, I conclude that Edmonton's downtown revitalization project operates as a settler colonialist function to eliminate urban indigenous populations. I position this argument within a greater conversation of indigenous sovereignties in Canada: how can the urban indigenous population in Edmonton be self-sustaining — let alone sovereign — when the very land they reside is under constant siege by a competing municipality?

Historical and Intergenerational Trauma: Indigenous Populations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie A. Walker ◽  
Turquoise Skye Devereaux
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Intergenerational Trauma ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Subordinate Group ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Physical And Sexual Abuse

Historical trauma originated with the social construction of subordinate group statuses through migration, annexation of land, and colonialism. The consequences of creating subordinate group statuses include genocide, segregation, and assimilation. Settler colonialism takes land with militaristic control, labels local inhabitants as deviant and inferior, then violently confines and oppresses the original occupants of the land. Confinement includes relocation, restriction of movement, settlement of lands required for sustenance, as well as confinement in orphanages, boarding schools, and prisons. Historical trauma includes suppression of language, culture, and religion with the threat of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Original inhabitant abuse often results in issues with health, mental health, substance abuse, and generational emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Culturally safe (engagement that respects identity) and trauma-informed social work practices acknowledge the systemic causes of disparities in groups experiencing marginalization and oppression and focus on healing and addressing systemic causes of disparities.

scholarly journals “A dismantled society”: meta-synthesis of the phenomenon of violence in indigenous populations

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Berenice Juan-Martínez ◽  
Lubia del Carmen Castillo-Arcos ◽  
Leticia Cortaza-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Human Care ◽  
Ebsco Host ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
Consequences Of Violence

Abstract OBJECTIVE To analyze publications of qualitative studies that addressed the phenomenon of violence in indigenous population. METHOD Meta-synthesis of studies published in the period of 2006 to 2016, with search in the Ebsco Host, Cuiden Plus, Science Direct, Springer, and Web of Science databases. RESULTS A new reinterpretation of the findings was generated from the codes and categories of the primary articles. Five categories emerged: living violence, factors associated with patterns of violence, consequences of violence, interaction dynamics in situations of violence, and how to deal with violence. CONCLUSIONS Indigenous people experience different types of violence at an early age; experienced in the family. This makes it an emerging social problem that must be taken care of urgently and represents an area of opportunity for the nursing professionals whose central focus is human care.

scholarly journals Comparison of urban and rural groups of school-age children of the Tuva Republic according to Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in the context of «transformation» of traditional lifestyle

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
V.А. Batsevich ◽  
Е.Yu. Permiakova ◽  
D.А. Mashina ◽  
O.V. Yasina ◽  
O.V. Khrustaleva
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Bioelectrical Impedance ◽  
Impedance Analysis ◽  
School Age ◽  
Small Shift ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The City

This study is concerned with the assessment of body composition indicators for urban and rural schoolchil-dren (related to the same adaptive type) of the Republic of Tuva in the context of «transformation» of the tradi-tional lifestyle. Comprehensive surveys of the population in this region were started by anthropologists back in the 1970s; therefore, this research should be considered as a continuation of the work on the dynamics of adaptation processes among the indigenous population in the light of changes of the environmental factors, primarily socio-economic and cultural. Comparison of morphological characteristics and growth rates of urban and rural school-children is particularly interesting, as changes in the lifestyle of the population during the transition to urban condi-tions entail significant increase in anthropometric indicators, which is especially pronounced in comparison with children of the same age living in less urbanized environment. As such, the relevance of this study is determined by the necessity to assess the degree of adaptation of those modern indigenous groups of the Tuva Republic, which are at the transitional stage from one ecological niche to another. Comparative anthropo-ecological studies have been carried out according to the standard morpho-physiological program in two groups of school-age chil-dren: the first one was examined in the city of Kyzyl (406 individuals) in 2018, and the second one in the Todzhin-sky kozhuun (district) of the Tuva Republic (435 individuals) in 2019. Schoolchildren examined in the capital of the republic (as the place of their birth and residence) can be classified as conditionally urban. This is the first genera-tion born within or moved to the city with parents from various rural areas of the steppe zone of the republic. A large number of internal migrants from other areas have also been found in the villages of Todzha, where previ-ously Todzhan Tuvans represented the ethnic majority. In this study, we assessed the overall body dimensions and body composition indices, acquired using the Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis. The obtained results show that there are virtually no significant differences between the anthropometric data from urban and rural groups of schoolchildren by overall dimensions and body composition across the entire age range. The observed differen-tiation at individual age points is more likely related to sample specifics. The age of menarche is not different in urban and rural groups: for urban girls it is 13.1 years, for rural girls — 13.0 years. The physical characteristics of schoolchildren indicate a relatively small shift in socio-economic conditions in regions with different extent of ur-banization. The differences are smoothed by the gradual withdrawal of the traditional way of life (stockbreeding), which is more intense among the indigenous groups of Siberia. Thus, our interim results of anthropo-ecological study conducted in Tuva Republic show significant desadaptive changes among the local indigenous population, both within the rural and the emerging urban communities.

scholarly journals Planting the S.E.E.D.S of Indigenous Population Health Data Linkage

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn K Rowe ◽  
Jennifer D Walker
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Data Linkage ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Data Stewardship

IntroductionThe increasing accessibility of data through digitization and linkage has resulted in Indigenous and allied individuals, scholars, practitioners, and data users recognizing a need to advance ways that assert Indigenous sovereignty and governance within data environments. Advances are being talked about around the world for how Indigenous data is collected, used, stored, shared, linked, and analysed. Objectives and ApproachDuring the International Population Data Linkage Network Conference in September of 2018, two sessions were hosted and led by international collaborators that focused on regional Indigenous health data linkage. Notes, discussions, and artistic contributions gathered from the conference led to collaborative efforts to highlight the common approaches to Indigenous data linkage, as discussed internationally. This presentation will share the braided culmination of these discussions and offer S.E.E.D.S as a set of guiding Indigenous data linkage principles. ResultsS.E.E.D.S emerges as a living and expanding set of guiding principles that: 1) prioritizes Indigenous Peoples’ right to Self-determination; 2) makes space for Indigenous Peoples to Exercise sovereignty; 3) adheres to Ethical protocols; 4) acknowledges and respects Data stewardship and governance, and; 5) works to Support reconciliation between Indigenous Peoples and settler states. S.E.E.D.S aims to centre and advance Indigenous-driven population data linkage and research while weaving together common global approaches to Indigenous data linkage. Conclusion / ImplicationsEach of the five elements of S.E.E.D.S interweave and need to be enacted together to create a positive Indigenous data linkage environment. When implemented together, the primary goals of the S.E.E.D.S Principles is to guide positive Indigenous population health data linkage in an effort to create more meaningful research approaches through improved Indigenous-based research processes. The implementation of these principles can, in turn, lead to better measurements of health progress that are critical to enhancing health care policy and improving health and wellness outcomes for Indigenous populations.

scholarly journals Thunder Bay: Local news is important for conversations on reconciliation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
April Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Thunder Bay ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The City ◽  
Northern City

[Paragraphs 1 to 3] The Ontario city of Thunder Bay is in the headlines these days for all the wrong reasons. Canada’s highest rates of murder and violent crime. The highest number of hate crimes per capita. Systemic racism embedded in shoddy police investigations. The deaths — many unexplained — of Indigenous students who come to the city for education not available in their remote northern communities. For years these troubles and the inequitable relationship between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in the city festered. Then in the spring of 2011, the Toronto Star began publishing reporter Tanya Talaga’s stories about the deaths of seven young Indigenous students over the previous decade. What had been a local story vaulted into national headlines. Talaga’s reporting became the basis for her 2017 award-winning book Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City.

scholarly journals Housing for Aboriginal Youth in the Inner City of Winnipeg

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Brown ◽  
Dilly Knol ◽  
Sonia Prevost-Derbecker ◽  
Kelly Andrushko
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Child Neglect ◽  
Homeless Youth ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Low Cost Housing ◽  
The City

Aboriginal families are highly overrepresented in child welfare caseloads. Major reasons for these high rates of involvement include poverty and housing issues, which contribute to perceptions of child neglect. In Winnipeg, the city with the highest proportion of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, low-cost housing is concentrated in core neighbourhoods. Homeless youth in these neighbourhoods, who are involved or have been involved in child welfare, were asked about their life experiences and the kind of housing that would help them. They talked about the need to be seen as resourceful, contributing members of the community, as well as their continued need of support from others, including friends and family. They wanted more than a place to sleep; they wanted a home that was safe, nurturing and long-term. The youth had school and work aspirations for themselves and wanted to help other youth reach their goals. There is a need for expansion of community-based and community-driven housing with youth who have been involved in the child welfare system.

scholarly journals Student Homelessness: Sheltering Our Future: An Adaptable Approach to Underutilised City Spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Caryl Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Modular Design ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Homeless Population ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
The City

<p>The increasing housing demands from population growth creates a persistent housing shortage and unaffordability in our cities. Students are one demographic that is dramatically affected as they move closer to their education provider for study. The student influx at the start of the semester creates a large demand in the already inadequate housing market. Students with a limited budget have reduced accommodation options and this consequently drives many into a state of homelessness. A study from University of Otago measures that over a quarter of New Zealand’s homeless population are students (Amore, 2016). This considerable number of students are living in cars, tents, couch-surfing and sleeping rough for weeks during their studies. The desperate situation impinges on the student’s health and well-being and thus their academic performance.  In this context, the scope of this research focuses on the requirements of homeless tertiary students in the urban setting. Their vulnerability, insecurity and distress are explored to provide direction to solutions that will alleviate the existing problems of their insufficient living environments. As proximity to the education providers and amenities are key factors, this thesis examines underutilised and leftover spaces within the city as opportunities for inhabitation, and to create efficient use of urban space. Currently, there are successful examples of activating overlooked laneways into vibrant spaces. However, these transformations rely on the activities in the lane and the interventions are largely landscaping and installations. By investigating the successful regeneration of previously undesirable and neglected spaces through architectural re-imagination, this thesis identify laneways to be a potential site to the urgent need for shelters.  The architectural experiments and design development are informed by the combination of site challenges and programme to form an overall design-led research. The thesis tests how temporary modular design has a significant role in the design of economic and adaptable solutions for the increasing issue of homelessness. This establishes that through a critical design, we may shelter those in desperate need within the urban context. The architecture provides a safe environment that is empathetic to its users and the larger urban scale while also creating a statement and awareness to homelessness. The thesis concludes with the design framework for a single test site and assesses its suitability for future application to other leftover spaces in the city.</p>

scholarly journals Contested homelands: Darwin’s ‘itinerant problem’

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Cultural Genocide ◽  
Visiting Friends And Relatives ◽  
History Of ◽  
People First ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
The City

Darwin has the largest Aboriginal population of any Australian city at nearly nine per cent, and the Northern Territory has nearly 28 per cent of the indigenous population. While the greater majority of the indigenous population in Darwin lives in circumstances not unlike their non-indigenous neighbors, a number are, out of necessity, more transient, moving between remote communities and the city, visiting friends and relatives who may be in hospital or prison, seeking work or escaping uneviable conditions in the interior. It is important to preface the present study with a word on social and historical context, as the representation of indigenous issues in 'the Territory' is founded upon historical and cultural constructions of Aboriginality. What underpins this long-running moral panic about homeless indiginous people? First, the history of Aboriginal people in Australia has been one of the disposession, cultural genocide and displacement. 

On Empty Spaces, Silence, and the Pause

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Amato
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
York City ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
World City ◽  
Growth Machine ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City

Before there is an aesthetic of gentrification, there is disinvestment. In between both is the production – and perception – of empty space ready to be filled. The production of empty space has a long history in New York City, from settler colonialism to urban renewal to gentrification under the neoliberal regime of today. Techniques such as filtering, investing in the aesthetic potential of aging neighbourhoods, and declaring vacancy, have helped fuel the process of gentrification. More recently, that process has accelerated to insure New York’s world city status by promising that every underutilized parcel will be filled with the tallest buildings, the greenest construction, and the densest use of land. Yet the city still has room for alternative visions that embrace a pause in the growth machine, such as cooperative centres and community gardens. These efforts, threatened though they are, provide models for inclusive cities where neoliberalism does not.

scholarly journals Tuberculosis in indigenous children in the Brazilian Amazon

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Gava ◽  
Jocieli Malacarne ◽  
Diana Patrícia Giraldo Rios ◽  
Clemax Couto Sant'Anna ◽  
Luiz Antônio Bastos Camacho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Hypothesis Test ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Clinical Form ◽  
Case Detection Rate ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
Childhood Tb ◽  
Chest X Ray

OBJECTIVE: Assess the epidemiological aspects of tuberculosis in Brazilian indigenous children and actions to control it. METHODS: An epidemiological study was performed with 356 children from 0 to 14 years of age in Rondônia State, Amazon, Brazil, during the period 1997-2006. Cases of TB reported to the Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System were divided into indigenous and non-indigenous categories and analyzed according to sex, age group, place of residence, clinical form, diagnostic tests and treatment outcome. A descriptive analysis of cases and hypothesis test (χ²) was carried out to verify if there were differences in the proportions of illness between the groups investigated. RESULTS: A total of 356 TB cases were identified (125 indigenous, 231 non-indigenous) of which 51.4% of the cases were in males. In the indigenous group, 60.8% of the cases presented in children aged 0-4 years old. The incidence mean was much higher among indigenous; in 2001, 1,047.9 cases/100,000 inhabitants were reported in children aged < 5 years. Pulmonary TB was reported in more than 80% of the cases, and in both groups over 70% of the cases were cured. Cultures and histopathological exams were performed on only 10% of the patients. There were 3 cases of TB/HIV co-infection in the non-indigenous group and none in the indigenous group. The case detection rate was classified as insufficient or fair in more than 80% of the indigenous population notifications, revealing that most of the diagnoses were performed based on chest x-ray. CONCLUSIONS: The approach used in this study proved useful in demonstrating inequalities in health between indigenous and non-indigenous populations and was superior to the conventional analyses performed by the surveillance services, drawing attention to the need to improve childhood TB diagnosis among the indigenous population.

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