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A Community Dialogue on Key Populations: Who’s in.... Who’s out....and Why??
AIDS 2014 July 21, 2014
Melbourne, Australia
Doris Peltier – Aboriginal Women & Leadership Coordinator Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network
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‘The essence of who we are is beautiful...’
(spirit, core, heart, real meaning, soul, quintessence, fundamental
nature)
N’ginaajiwimi
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What are the indicators which reflect that Indigenous people in Canada are considered a key population?
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COLONIZATION
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Contact with Colonizers
• Changed everything for Indigenous peoples
• Epidemics caused severe social disorganization for indigenous societies
• Traditional social structures, alliances and kinship ties were disrupted
• Confidence in traditional leaders and healers were undermined
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The “Disease Factor”
• Those left alive in the aftermath of war and disease lost hope
• Social disintegration followed
• The ‘disease factor’ differentiates the history of colonization of the Americas from other regions in the world
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Most visible colonial legacy...
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Kill the Indian...save the Man
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How did Colonization Impact Aboriginal People
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Historical Trauma - First stages
• Physical – introduction of infectious diseases that decimated
• Economic – violation of Native stewardship and forced removal of people from their natural habitat and life ways
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Historical Trauma – Second Stages
• Cultural – Christian missionization to bring about religious transformation
• Social – Aboriginal displacement through colonial settlement
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Historical Trauma – Third Stage
• Psychological – the marginalization of Aboriginal people, as their social selves became largely diminished and impoverished.
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Dis-ease Trajectory to HIV and AIDS
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Telling Our Stories....
• Validation• Making sense of the past• Releasing • Removing layer upon layer• Discovering strengths• Uncovering true essence and identity• Empowerment and healing
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[A] healing ritual changes a person from an isolated (diseased) state to one of… transformation from one state to another, the prior state or condition must cease to exist. It must die (Allen, 1986:80).
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The Dominant Story
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Meequetch