Indigenous Health

Cities should be places that sustain life for all Peoples and other than human Kin. One pathway is to incorporate Traditional Ecological Knowledges into urban systems. Indigenous and Land cultures have a lot of Knowledges that are relevant in making urban spaces life sustaining and contribute to ending the dysregulation of our planetary systems.

These are working principles set forth by a group of Indigenous Peoples and Land-Kinned Peoples who gathered in the UK. We see this both as a starting point and an evolving process. These principles are the first iteration, as they interact with more Peoples they will change and evolve. 

Grace’s current writing and scholarship are focused on restorative and transformative justice, tribal criminal law and jurisdiction, tribal court and justice innovation, critical Indigenous studies, ethnic studies, decolonisation theory, and abolition theory.

The pathways to poor health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples are multifaceted and interconnected. Here, we provide a brief overview of some of the mechanisms by which the devastating effects of colonisation, forced assimilation, displacement, and systemic oppression contribute to health disparities of indigenous peoples.

These two essays reflect on non-western healing epistemologies, both as an opportunity for healing and as a response to the harms of the western medical industrial complex. 

What is often missing from the conversation is how environmental hazards, due to being an experience of stress and trauma can lead to mental distress.

This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems. Colonisation has affected Indigenous Peoples in varied and unique ways, ripping some of us from Ancestral Lands, Peoples, and culture whilst others are currently fighting to keep their territories as colonisation continues to evolve. 

It's becoming increasingly clear that the relationship between human health and disease is a complex and dynamic interplay between the physical and social environment and the body.

There is a need to understand the history behind framing health as individual choices or behaviours to better appreciate why an ecological health approach looks like and its significance in eradicating health inequities.

In this report, we define symbiosis as a long-term biological and philosophical interaction between Humans and Nature that is mutualistic and obligate.