RELG 456 Lecture 17: Week 7 - Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
15 Jun 2018
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Week 8 – Food as Medicine Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Factors Affecting Disease:
- Income, education, housing, conization and urbanization
- Physical activity, smoking, unhealthy diet, alcohol/drug use, mental illnesses
→ Cronicities of Modernity
Epigenetics: Heritable changes in gene expression, which occur without changes
**Video: University of Manitoba and Indigenous Knowledge can be used to close gaps in indigenous
health **
- Epistemic Racism – western euro-centric health care system
- Health care system fails to meet indigenous people because of lack of accessibility or because
they are treated as less than human
- Requiring one set of knowledge to be validated by a second knowledge system is problematic in
that it requires one to agree on the superiority of one system over the other
- Spirit-Women Teachings → woman carry with them all of the teachings that they need
1. Wisdom – knowledge based on lived experience and shared in ways that treat everyone as
equals
2. Humility = being yourself without thinking you are better or worse than anyone else; needed
to address stigmatization in the health system against indigenous women
3. Respect – everyone’s knowledge and value recognized and treated a equal; emphasis that no
one is treated with discrimination and judgement
4. Love – connected and undivided intention lead with kindness, sharing what you have and
showing appreciation and caring
5. Bravery – revealing yourself without knowing what the outcome will be, willing to try out
new solutions
6. Truth – staying true to your principles, doing what you say you’re going to do
7. Honesty –
- Indigenous women having children apprehended, due to substance use while pregnant
- Indigenous self-determination by giving individual decision-making power with a grounding in
the seven sacred teachings as one example
- Valuing not just evidence-based science; indigenous peoples as subjects of studies – Canadian
health care as dehumanizing
Food Guides by Health Canada:
- Western vs. East vs. Central Canada Indigenous diet differ extremely which is something the food
guide entirely fails to address
Medicine Wheel – four colours: white, yellow, red and black which represents a variety of systems
symbol of the interrelations between life, health, well-being
- Sage/Smudging – used to warn off negative energy around the body
- Sweet Grass
- Herbs
- Cedar
- Desire to establish a co-existence between the use of herbs and natural medicines vs. drugs
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Document Summary
Physical activity, smoking, unhealthy diet, alcohol/drug use, mental illnesses. Epigenetics: heritable changes in gene expression, which occur without changes. **video: university of manitoba and indigenous knowledge can be used to close gaps in indigenous health ** Epistemic racism western euro-centric health care system. Health care system fails to meet indigenous people because of lack of accessibility or because they are treated as less than human. Requiring one set of knowledge to be validated by a second knowledge system is problematic in that it requires one to agree on the superiority of one system over the other. Indigenous women having children apprehended, due to substance use while pregnant. Indigenous self-determination by giving individual decision-making power with a grounding in the seven sacred teachings as one example. Valuing not just evidence-based science; indigenous peoples as subjects of studies canadian health care as dehumanizing.
