Decolonising the Body: Restoring Sacred Vitality

Authors

  • Alannah Earl Young University of British Columbia's First Nations House of Learning in Vancouver.
  • Denise Nadeau School for Community and Public Affairs at Concordia

Keywords:

Women -- Mental health

Abstract

The transformation of the impacts of sexual, racial and colonial violence on Native women requires unlearning ways of thinking and being that have been etched onto the body. This article examines a program developed for urban Native women that focuses on restoring the felt sense of sacred interconnection with relations and developing an embodied spiritual practice incorporating traditional teachings.

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...

Downloads

Published

2005-04-01

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 2 (2005): Indigenous Women: The State of Our Nations

Section

Original Research

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

2. Authors are aware that articles published in Atlantis are indexed and made available through various scholarly and professional search tools, including but not limited to Erudit.

3. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

4. Authors are permitted and encouraged to preprint their work, that is, post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process. This can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work. Read more on preprints here.