Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp
The transmission of generational knowledge in Alaska Native communities has been disrupted by colonization and led to declining health among Alaska Natives, as evidenced by the loss of knowledge regarding traditional foods and foodways and increasing rates of cardiometabolic disorders impacting Alas...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/15248399231190365 2024-03-03T08:42:25+00:00 Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp Demientieff, LaVerne Xilegg Rasmus, Stacy Black, Jessica C. Presley, Jessica Jauregui-Dusseau, Alex Clyma, Kaylee R. Jernigan, Valarie Blue Bird 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15248399231190365 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/15248399231190365 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/15248399231190365 en eng SAGE Publications https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Health Promotion Practice volume 24, issue 6, page 1101-1104 ISSN 1524-8399 1552-6372 Nursing (miscellaneous) Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health journal-article 2023 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399231190365 2024-02-05T10:36:56Z The transmission of generational knowledge in Alaska Native communities has been disrupted by colonization and led to declining health among Alaska Natives, as evidenced by the loss of knowledge regarding traditional foods and foodways and increasing rates of cardiometabolic disorders impacting Alaska Natives. Elders play a central role in passing down this generational knowledge, but emerging Elders may have difficulty in stepping into their roles as Elders due to the rapid social and cultural changes impacting their communities. The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) and the Denakkanaaga Elders Program are partnering with the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity to uplift and support traditional food knowledge and practices to promote health in Alaska Native communities. Guided by a decolonizing and Indigenizing framework, researchers at CANHR are working with Athabascan Elders in the Interior of Alaska to strengthen and protect the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge and practices for emerging Elders. This community-academic partnership will implement and evaluate an Elders Mentoring Elders Camp to focus on repairing and nurturing relationships through the practice and preservation of cultural knowledge and practices, including traditional foodways. This initiative contributes to the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, which is necessary to keep culture alive and thriving. Article in Journal/Newspaper Athabascan Alaska SAGE Publications Health Promotion Practice 24 6 1101 1104 |
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The transmission of generational knowledge in Alaska Native communities has been disrupted by colonization and led to declining health among Alaska Natives, as evidenced by the loss of knowledge regarding traditional foods and foodways and increasing rates of cardiometabolic disorders impacting Alaska Natives. Elders play a central role in passing down this generational knowledge, but emerging Elders may have difficulty in stepping into their roles as Elders due to the rapid social and cultural changes impacting their communities. The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) and the Denakkanaaga Elders Program are partnering with the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity to uplift and support traditional food knowledge and practices to promote health in Alaska Native communities. Guided by a decolonizing and Indigenizing framework, researchers at CANHR are working with Athabascan Elders in the Interior of Alaska to strengthen and protect the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge and practices for emerging Elders. This community-academic partnership will implement and evaluate an Elders Mentoring Elders Camp to focus on repairing and nurturing relationships through the practice and preservation of cultural knowledge and practices, including traditional foodways. This initiative contributes to the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, which is necessary to keep culture alive and thriving. |
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Demientieff, LaVerne Xilegg Rasmus, Stacy Black, Jessica C. Presley, Jessica Jauregui-Dusseau, Alex Clyma, Kaylee R. Jernigan, Valarie Blue Bird |
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Demientieff, LaVerne Xilegg Rasmus, Stacy Black, Jessica C. Presley, Jessica Jauregui-Dusseau, Alex Clyma, Kaylee R. Jernigan, Valarie Blue Bird |
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Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp |
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Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp |
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Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp |
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Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp |
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supporting traditional foodways knowledge and practices in alaska native communities: the elders mentoring elders camp |
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