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Re-Presenting People: Critically Reviewing Existing Imagery Of Traditional Coast Salish Lifeways And Creating New Images, Beatrice Franke
Re-Presenting People: Critically Reviewing Existing Imagery Of Traditional Coast Salish Lifeways And Creating New Images, Beatrice Franke
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Images are powerful communicators of ideas because they shape how people perceive and understand the past (Moser 1996, Arnold 2005). It is important to critically look at them with a decolonizing lens to ensure that the artists who make these images and the authors that use them do not imply harmful or disrespectful ideas about the people depicted. For my thesis, I critically examine how archaeologists and other authors present ideas about indigenous Northwest Coast and Coast Salish people’s traditional lifeways through images. By looking at existing images from my perspective as an archaeologist and artist and including perspectives from …
All-Healing Weapon: The Value Of Oplopanax Horridus Root Bark In The Treatment Of Type 2 Diabetes, Alissa B. (Alissa Bronwyn) Daschbach
All-Healing Weapon: The Value Of Oplopanax Horridus Root Bark In The Treatment Of Type 2 Diabetes, Alissa B. (Alissa Bronwyn) Daschbach
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While Indigenous Peoples live in an incredibly diverse geographical array with significant differences in language, culture, and history, there is a shared experience of an increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance as compared to the dominant or colonizer populations. Indigenous patients with type 2 diabetes face multiple barriers to disease self-management: poverty, chronic stress, cultural oppression, limited access to healthy food or exercise, inadequate housing and limited resources to pay for medications. Epidemiological models of type 2 diabetes disregard the social determinants that play a prominent role in the disease’s predominance among the world’s Indigenous Peoples, …