Table 1 Final statements by cluster
From: Conceptualizing Indigenous strengths-based health and wellness research using group concept mapping
Cluster number | Cluster title | Statements |
|---|---|---|
1 | Decolonial Research: Exists, Resists, Persists in the Face of Colonialism | 1. Should be prioritized by all research funding sources 6. Should be recognized through formal academic policies and procedures 38. Is anticolonial 40. Is surviving and thriving in the face of colonization and its effects 42. Exists, resists, and persists despite colonialism 47. Requires Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers to think critically about how they benefit from colonial structures 54. Requires decolonizing methodologies that are not currently supported by health and academic systems 55. Recognizes that data is not a thing to be extracted and owned by outsiders 56. Highlights that no person's experience is statistically insignificant 64. Can be met with skepticism because it is research 65. Is championed by many Native researchers and activists 77. Thrives within healthy research environments 79. Requires time that funding mechanisms do not often afford 91. Can be difficult to accomplish in U.S. academic institutions 92. Seeks to find new statistical and research methodologies that help to discover how culturally-grounded programs help Native people |
2 | Indigenous Praxis: Positionality and Process for Being in Good Relation | 14. Should be done by people with authentic care, concern, and love for Indigenous communities 30. Acknowledges cumulative trauma since colonization 31. Needs to be done thoughtfully 34. Focuses on well-being rather than disorder 51. Are honest in their approach to benefit and uplift Indigenous communities, their cultures, languages, and knowledges 57. Takes patience 59. Uses many methods 69. Is multi-level 75. Is contextual 82. Is co-designed with Indigenous peoples 84. Supports and grows Indigenous pedagogies |
3 | Generating and Transforming Indigenous Futures | 3. Should be used to help shape laws and policies that affect Indigenous communities 5. Can be narrative shifting (e.g., counters stereotypes) 8. Builds skillsets, training, and opportunities for growing Indigenous scholars 11. Defines what health and wellness is 12. Can teach the world 16. Should lead to identifying structural changes 20. Is revolutionary in that it is ancient and iterative 26. Will educate 35. Is justice 44. Leads to liberation from the confines of colonialism 61. Is innovative 67. Can turn the gaze from "deficits" of Indigenous peoples to deficits of Western capitalism 68. Is essential 71. Can lead the field and provide a framework for broader person and community-centered health and wellness research 73. Highlights best practices 74. Will evolve 80. Can push research as an enterprise towards a resilience and resistance over disparities 88. Clarifies social determinants of health specific to Indigenous populations 94. Should build capacity so that future efforts are Indigenous led |
4 | Intergenerational Healing and Flourishing | 4. Is healing for Indigenous peoples and communities 17. Is what communities have been asking for a long time 18. Is preventative 25. Will change the health of Native communities for the better 36. Is restorative 37. Is transformative 41. Is generative for Indigenous peoples and our futures 45. Is empowering for Indigenous peoples and communities 58. Celebrates Indigenous success 62. Germinates in Indigenous community conversations 63. Is about building a life worth living 70. Is focused on maximizing flourishing 76. Builds community 81. Can improve health and well-being for communities around the world 83. Allows for human potentiality 89. Always benefits the people and community who provide the knowledge |
5 | Collective Wisdom: Original Instructions and Dynamic Futures | 2. Centers Tribal and community sovereignty 9. Is family and community focused 10. Is led by Indigenous peoples and communities 21. Lives within us 22. Helps reclaim traditional culture and spirituality 23. Preserves collective wisdom 27. Honors Mother Earth 33. Restores traditional forms of living, being, relating, and creating 39. Places the power of healing in the hands of Indigenous peoples and communities 43. Means going back to our (Indigenous peoples) roots 46. Privileges land-based knowledge that is often hyper-local 48. Imagines Indigenous futures 50. Is grounded in the teachings and lessons of our Elders 53. Encourages the use of Indigenous foodways 85. Upholds intergenerational transmission of knowledge 86. Centers the priorities of Indigenous peoples 87. Privileges local understandings and ways of knowing 90. Includes knowledge and wisdom from youth/future generations 93. Recognizes the importance of cultural identity in health outcomes |
6 | Centering Indigenous Ways and Cultures in Research | 7. Should feel like ceremony 13. Should be driven by the heart 15. Accounts for interrelationships of physical, mental, and spiritual health 19. Is intergenerational 24. Considers the interests of our ancestors 28. Is connected to the past 29. Honors Indigenous ways of knowing 32. Can be supported with ceremony 49. Is storytelling 52. Privileges Indigenous knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge 60. Invites Indigenous people to exist in all of their pluralities 66. Operates through relationships which center reciprocity and accountability 72. Finds approaches to address health disparities grounded in cultural values and practices 78. Is Indigenized |