Elder Rick Lightning to Offer Land-based Education

Medicine & Dentistry

Type
Indigenizing and decolonizing - Institutional policy and praxis

Contributor
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FOMD)

The FoMD has engaged Elder Rick Lightning to offer land-based education at his lodge in Maskwacis. Education will encompass Indigenous healing methods, ceremony, traditional medicine teaching, feasting, and prayer offerings to inform their significance to Indigenous ways of knowing.

Activity Details
The FoMD has engaged Elder Rick Lightning to offer land-based education at his lodge in Maskwacis. Education will encompass Indigenous healing methods, ceremony, traditional medicine teaching, feasting, and prayer offerings to inform their significance to Indigenous ways of knowing. This is a first step, as the education is offered as an elective and is not currently part of the core curriculum within FoMD programs. Faculty members and staff will also be encourage to take part in this education.

The MD (Medical Doctor) Program

Medicine & Dentistry

Type
Indigenizing and decolonizing - Institutional policy and praxis

Contributor
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry (FOMD)

The MD (Medical Doctor) Program has provided additional resources to support the establishment and implementation of an Indigenous Advisory Council to include Elders, community leaders and Indigenous physicians.

Activity Details
The MD (Medical Doctor) Program has provided additional resources to support the establishment and implementation of an Indigenous Advisory Council to include Elders, community leaders and Indigenous physicians.

Decolonize the Curriculum

Nursing

Type
Indigenizing and decolonizing - curriculum

Contributor
Faculty of Nursing

As part of the ongoing improvement of the undergraduate curriculum the teams are working to "decolonize" the curriculum, integrate Indigenous Ways of Knowing and introduce cases and examples that better represent the diversity within the populations that the students will serve as health care providers.

Activity Details
As part of the ongoing improvement of the undergraduate curriculum the teams are working to "decolonize" the curriculum, integrate Indigenous Ways of Knowing and introduce cases and examples that better represent the diversity within the populations that the students will serve as health care providers.

Northern and Indigenous Health Strategy

Public Health, School of

Type
Indigenizing and decolonizing - Institutional policy and praxis

Contributor
School of Public Health (SOPH)

The SOPH has identified northern and Indigenous health as a research and public health priority and has created the Northern and Indigenous Health Strategy.

Activity Details
The SOPH has identified northern and Indigenous health as a research and public health priority and has created the Northern and Indigenous Health Strategy. It has appointed five Indigenous adjunct professors who are recognized Knowledge Holders in their communities and two Indigenous elders from the Northwest Territories. The adjunct professors bring expertise in Indigenous knowledge and Ways of Knowing. As educators, co-investigators and advisors the adjunct professors will help students incorporate traditional knowledge into their research, develop respectful relationships with Indigenous people and better understand northern communities.

Appointment of Professors and Elders

Public Health, School of

Type
Indigenizing and decolonizing - Institutional policy and praxis

Contributor
School of Public Health

The School has appointed five northern Indigenous adjunct professors (non-faculty instructors) from Northwest Territories and four elders and knowledge keepers to our newly-established Elders and Knowledge Keepers program.

Activity Details
The School has appointed five northern Indigenous adjunct professors (non-faculty instructors) from Northwest Territories and four elders and knowledge keepers to our newly-established Elders and Knowledge Keepers program. Appointees play a key role as cultural mentors by participating in orientation sessions for the School, providing advice on incorporating traditional knowledge into School planning and research, contributing to the supervision of graduate students and lecturing on a variety of topics to students, faculty and staff.

Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Indigenous Perspectives

Rehabilitation Medicine

Type
Indigenizing and decolonizing - curriculum

Contributor
Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine

All programs within the Faculty are reviewing their curricula to ensure that Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Indigenous perspectives are included.

Activity Details

All programs within the Faculty are reviewing their curricula to ensure that Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Indigenous perspectives are included; in partnership with The Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation and the Saville Centre, there is an exercise group from the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Indigenous Wellness Clinic who attends 1 time per week for exercise in the Saville's weight room - OT/PT/KSR students volunteer to help people with their routines.