Land, people, and place: Ethnobotany in Secwepemcúl'ecw
This project arose as a personal response to the overwhelming over-representation of Indigenous peoples in statistics on health crises. We hear so often about how Indigenous peoples are less healthy and more subject to health inequalities than our non-Indigenous neighbors. As a result, I began resea...
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ftarcabc:oai:arcabc.ca:tru_1320 2023-10-29T02:36:22+01:00 Land, people, and place: Ethnobotany in Secwepemcúl'ecw Aird, Melissa (Author) Cooke, Lisa (lcooke) (Thesis advisor) Woodrow, Jenna (Degree committee member) Baldwin, Lyn (lybaldwin) (Degree committee member) Wallin, Mark Rowell (mwallin) (Degree committee member) Thompson Rivers University Interdisciplinary Studies (Degree granting institution) 2017 electronic vi, 65 pages https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/tru%3A1320 English eng Thompson Rivers University https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/tru%3A1320 tru:1320 Thompson Rivers University uuid: 901a7401-d084-4380-8a0f-239ae620687b author http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Ethnobotany -- North America Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Health and hygiene Text thesis 2017 ftarcabc 2023-10-01T18:01:00Z This project arose as a personal response to the overwhelming over-representation of Indigenous peoples in statistics on health crises. We hear so often about how Indigenous peoples are less healthy and more subject to health inequalities than our non-Indigenous neighbors. As a result, I began research on ethnobotany and the idea of traditional medicine restoration being part of a solution. In this paper I argue for a healthcare system that will validate Indigenous healing as equally authoritative to Western approaches to health and wellbeing, rather than dismissive of them. Ethnobotany mediates the relationship with land, souls and self while colonialism obscures the importance and relevance of Indigenous consciousness. Health issues faced by many Indigenous peoples are a direct reflection of the lasting impacts of colonialism, assimilation policy, ethnocide and genocide. Solving these health problems rooted in this horrible past and the intergenerational traumas left in their wake, requires not just acknowledging truth and reconciling differences, but a social transformation whereby dominant settler colonial society validates indigeneity and First Nations ways of being and knowing as equal epistemological systems. “For the First Peoples of Canada, the past cannot be forgotten, deliberately overlooked, or discarded as no longer relevant. The past is still present, but in a different form that must be addressed again in the new conditions in which it appears, now and into the future” (Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures, 2005, p. 24). Thus I view this thesis as an act of resistance against colonial knowledge forms. It looks to create space for, and validate, Indigenous epistemologies. The acknowledgment of different ways of being and knowing as equals to colonial knowing will forever change the way Canadian Indigenous peoples are understood, respected and will lead to healing of the intergenerational trauma imposed on our Indigenous peoples. The breaking of hegemony and racist discourse that engulfs ... Thesis First Nations Arca (BC's Digital Treasures) |
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This project arose as a personal response to the overwhelming over-representation of Indigenous peoples in statistics on health crises. We hear so often about how Indigenous peoples are less healthy and more subject to health inequalities than our non-Indigenous neighbors. As a result, I began research on ethnobotany and the idea of traditional medicine restoration being part of a solution. In this paper I argue for a healthcare system that will validate Indigenous healing as equally authoritative to Western approaches to health and wellbeing, rather than dismissive of them. Ethnobotany mediates the relationship with land, souls and self while colonialism obscures the importance and relevance of Indigenous consciousness. Health issues faced by many Indigenous peoples are a direct reflection of the lasting impacts of colonialism, assimilation policy, ethnocide and genocide. Solving these health problems rooted in this horrible past and the intergenerational traumas left in their wake, requires not just acknowledging truth and reconciling differences, but a social transformation whereby dominant settler colonial society validates indigeneity and First Nations ways of being and knowing as equal epistemological systems. “For the First Peoples of Canada, the past cannot be forgotten, deliberately overlooked, or discarded as no longer relevant. The past is still present, but in a different form that must be addressed again in the new conditions in which it appears, now and into the future” (Task Force on Aboriginal Languages and Cultures, 2005, p. 24). Thus I view this thesis as an act of resistance against colonial knowledge forms. It looks to create space for, and validate, Indigenous epistemologies. The acknowledgment of different ways of being and knowing as equals to colonial knowing will forever change the way Canadian Indigenous peoples are understood, respected and will lead to healing of the intergenerational trauma imposed on our Indigenous peoples. The breaking of hegemony and racist discourse that engulfs ... |
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Aird, Melissa (Author) Cooke, Lisa (lcooke) (Thesis advisor) Woodrow, Jenna (Degree committee member) Baldwin, Lyn (lybaldwin) (Degree committee member) Wallin, Mark Rowell (mwallin) (Degree committee member) Thompson Rivers University Interdisciplinary Studies (Degree granting institution) |
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