American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
Linking colonialism-historical and ongoing-to the health disparities experienced by Indigenous 1 people is an important step in understanding how to begin to promote health and wellness in Native communities. By articulating the ways in which imposed categories and judgments can be implicated in Ind...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1078.6203 2023-05-15T15:02:24+02:00 American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research Ph.D Lisa Wexler The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1078.6203 http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/research/centers/CAIANH/journal/Documents/Volume%2016/16%281%29_Wexler_Inupiat_Youth_Narratives_1-24.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1078.6203 http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/research/centers/CAIANH/journal/Documents/Volume%2016/16%281%29_Wexler_Inupiat_Youth_Narratives_1-24.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/PublicHealth/research/centers/CAIANH/journal/Documents/Volume%2016/16%281%29_Wexler_Inupiat_Youth_Narratives_1-24.pdf text ftciteseerx 2020-05-03T00:18:49Z Linking colonialism-historical and ongoing-to the health disparities experienced by Indigenous 1 people is an important step in understanding how to begin to promote health and wellness in Native communities. By articulating the ways in which imposed categories and judgments can be implicated in Indigenous young people's psychological dis-ease, this article attempts to illustrate the ways in which colonial consciousness is internalized by youth to their detriment. Highlighting the link between colonialism and self-destruction among Inupiaq young people challenges the common characterization of suicide as mainly a biomedical issue, and repositions it as a political problem stemming from colonization. Indigenous people in general and Arctic people in particular have experienced profound social and cultural changes over the past century. The resulting acculturation stress, identity confl icts, and discontinuities between past and present have been associated with Text Arctic Inupiaq Alaska Unknown Arctic Indian |
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Linking colonialism-historical and ongoing-to the health disparities experienced by Indigenous 1 people is an important step in understanding how to begin to promote health and wellness in Native communities. By articulating the ways in which imposed categories and judgments can be implicated in Indigenous young people's psychological dis-ease, this article attempts to illustrate the ways in which colonial consciousness is internalized by youth to their detriment. Highlighting the link between colonialism and self-destruction among Inupiaq young people challenges the common characterization of suicide as mainly a biomedical issue, and repositions it as a political problem stemming from colonization. Indigenous people in general and Arctic people in particular have experienced profound social and cultural changes over the past century. The resulting acculturation stress, identity confl icts, and discontinuities between past and present have been associated with |
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