Indigenous ancestral lands and Elders epistemologies in a time of pandemic

Neeganagwedgin, Erica

doi:10.1177/1177180120970939

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“…However, the closure of schools has been beneficial for some groups providing an opportunity to recover indigenous knowledges. For example, in Canada, Neeganagwedgin ( 2020 ) describes how some First Nations children are now being taught on the land by elders. While in northern Russia, Potravnaya and Sleptcov ( 2020 ) found the closure of schools allowed reindeer farmers to take their children with them to summer pastures.…”

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Indigenous peoples and the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic scoping review

Pickering

Galappaththi

Ford

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Past influenza pandemics including the Spanish flu and H1N1 have disproportionately affected Indigenous peoples. We conducted a systematic scoping review to provide an overview of the state of understanding of the experience of Indigenous peoples during the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in doing so we capture the state of knowledge available to governments and decision makers for addressing the needs of Indigenous peoples in these early months of the pandemic. We addressed three questions: (i) How is COVID-19 impacting the health and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples, (ii) What systems level challenges are Indigenous peoples experiencing, (iii) How are Indigenous peoples responding? We searched Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed databases and UN organization websites for publications about Indigenous peoples and COVID-19. Results were analysed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. A total of 153 publications were included: 140 peer-reviewed articles and 13 from UN organizations. Editorial/commentaries were the most (43%) frequent type of publication. Analysis identified Indigenous peoples from 19 different countries, although 56% of publications were centred upon those in Brazil, United States, and Canada. The majority (90%) of articles focused upon the general adult population, few (< 2%) used a gender lens. A small number of articles documented COVID-19 testing (0.04%), incidence (18%), or mortality (16%). Five themes of system level challenges affecting exposure and livelihoods evolved: ecological, poverty, communication, education and health care services. Responses were formal and informal strategies from governments, Indigenous organizations and communities. A lack of ethnically disaggregated health data and a gender lens are constraining our knowledge, which is clustered around a limited number of Indigenous peoples in mostly high-income countries. Many Indigenous peoples have autonomously implemented their own coping strategies while government responses have been largely reactive and inadequate. To “build back better” we must address these knowledge gaps.

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