Beginning with Our Voices: How the Experiential Stories of First Nations Women Contribute to a National Research Project
The purpose of this paper is to review how the experiential stories of First Nations women contribute to a national research project. The project focuses on how women’s healing is impacted by their views about themselves as - and the stigma associated with being - a drug user, involved in crime and...
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ftunivictoriaojs:oai:journals.uvic.ca:article/12324 2023-05-15T16:15:29+02:00 Beginning with Our Voices: How the Experiential Stories of First Nations Women Contribute to a National Research Project Acoose, Sharon Blunderfield, Debbie Dell, Colleen Anne Desjarlais, Val 2013-06-04 https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijih/article/view/12324 en eng Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijih/article/view/12324 International Journal of Indigenous Health; Vol 4 No 2: Journal of Aboriginal Health; 35-43 2291-9376 2291-9368 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2013 ftunivictoriaojs 2020-12-02T19:57:11Z The purpose of this paper is to review how the experiential stories of First Nations women contribute to a national research project. The project focuses on how women’s healing is impacted by their views about themselves as - and the stigma associated with being - a drug user, involved in crime and an Aboriginal woman.Our project began with three First Nations women on our research team documenting the role of stigma and self-identity in their personal healing journeys from problematically using drugs and being in conflict with the law. In this paper we discuss how key components of feminist research practices, Aboriginal methodology and community-based research helped us position the women’s experiential stories in authoritative, recognized and celebrated ways in our study. We illustrate how the women’s stories uniquely contributed to the creation of our interview questions and the research project in general. We also discuss how the women personally benefited from writing about and sharing their experiences. Key benefits include the women discovering the impact of the written word, promotion of their healing, personal recognition of their ability to offer hope to women in need, increased self-esteem, and increased appreciation of the importance of sharing their lived experiences with others. Our method of research differs from a conventional western scientific approach to understanding, and as such made important contributions to both the project itself and the women who shared their experiential stories. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Victoria (Canada): Journal Publishing Service |
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The purpose of this paper is to review how the experiential stories of First Nations women contribute to a national research project. The project focuses on how women’s healing is impacted by their views about themselves as - and the stigma associated with being - a drug user, involved in crime and an Aboriginal woman.Our project began with three First Nations women on our research team documenting the role of stigma and self-identity in their personal healing journeys from problematically using drugs and being in conflict with the law. In this paper we discuss how key components of feminist research practices, Aboriginal methodology and community-based research helped us position the women’s experiential stories in authoritative, recognized and celebrated ways in our study. We illustrate how the women’s stories uniquely contributed to the creation of our interview questions and the research project in general. We also discuss how the women personally benefited from writing about and sharing their experiences. Key benefits include the women discovering the impact of the written word, promotion of their healing, personal recognition of their ability to offer hope to women in need, increased self-esteem, and increased appreciation of the importance of sharing their lived experiences with others. Our method of research differs from a conventional western scientific approach to understanding, and as such made important contributions to both the project itself and the women who shared their experiential stories. |
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Beginning with Our Voices: How the Experiential Stories of First Nations Women Contribute to a National Research Project |
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Beginning with Our Voices: How the Experiential Stories of First Nations Women Contribute to a National Research Project |
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beginning with our voices: how the experiential stories of first nations women contribute to a national research project |
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Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health |
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2013 |
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International Journal of Indigenous Health; Vol 4 No 2: Journal of Aboriginal Health; 35-43 2291-9376 2291-9368 |
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