Genocide by a million paper cuts

An Indigenous and arts-influenced framework for anti-racist practice in nursing education

“…By explicitly acknowledging Canada's history of genocide (e.g., unfair land negotiations, residential schooling, removing Indigenous children from their homes, quarantining and segregating Indigenous people and the sterilization of Indigenous women), and the role nurses played in this genocide, schools of nursing have an opportunity to make non-Indigenous Canadians more attentive to the complexities of living in Canada, of a difficult history with Indigenous people, and how colonial structures, including education and health care, continue to reproduce this genocide. We echo Thorne's (2019) sentiment that within the nursing profession: …we will not be able to move forward as agents of constructive change until we have found a way to open our eyes and ears to the experiences of those harmed by the systemic injustices that our societies have created and sustained, and in which we have received a measure of privilege. This will necessarily include hearing and receiving their painful truths without judgement and without defensiveness (p.2).…”

Gum yan asing Kaangas giidaay han hll guudang gas ga. I Will Never Again Feel That I Am Less Than: Indigenous Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on Ending Racism in Health Care

“…Nurses and other members of the health care team can no longer be complicit in maintaining colonial processes (Bourque Bearskin, Kennedy, & Joseph, 2020; Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing, 2020; Symenuk et al, 2020;Thorne, 2019). The facts and the lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples who have been harmed accessing care are a wake-up call for all health care providers to act immediately.…”

Complicating nursing's views on religion and politics in healthcare

“…In Canada, secularism and the separation of church and state has taken a somewhat different path, given that Canada never had (2015) with its Calls to Action brought this history into the realm of public discourse and has resulted in what is referred to as an Indigenization of secularism (Colorado, 2017), whereby the public sphere is increasingly acknowledging Indigenous spiritualities. In healthcare, this involves the creation of All Nations Sacred Spaces where patients and families can participate in healing ceremonies, land acknowledgements at public meetings that point to the presence or lack of treaty and the application of an equity lens to note how healthcare services can be more responsive and equitable to counter health disparities whereby Indigenous peoples experience health outcomes much poorer than the rest of society (Browne et al, 2012;Thorne, 2019).…”