“Because we have really unique art”: Decolonizing Research with Indigenous Youth Using the Arts

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dc.contributor.authorFlicker, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorDanforth, Jessica Yee
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Ciann
dc.contributor.authorOliver, Vanessa
dc.contributor.authorLarkin, June
dc.contributor.authorRestoule, Jean-Paul
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorKonsmo, Erin
dc.contributor.authorJackson, Randy
dc.contributor.authorTracey, Prentice
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-14T18:33:18Z
dc.date.available2018-05-14T18:33:18Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIndigenous communities in Canada share a common history of colonial oppression. As a result, many Indigenous populations are disproportionately burdened with poor health outcomes, including HIV. Conventional public health approaches have not yet been successful in reversing this trend. For this study, a team of community- and university-based researchers came together to imagine new possibilities for health promotion with Indigenous youth. A strengths-based approach was taken that relied on using the energies and talents of Indigenous youth as a leadership resource. Art-making workshops were held in six different Indigenous communities across Canada in which youth could explore the links between community, culture, colonization, and HIV. Twenty artists and more than 85 youth participated in the workshops. Afterwards, youth participants reflected on their experiences in individual in-depth interviews. Youth participants viewed the process of making art as fun, participatory, and empowering; they felt that their art pieces instilled pride, conveyed information, raised awareness, and constituted a tangible achievement. Youth participants found that both the process and products of arts-based methods were important. Findings from this project support the notion that arts-based approaches to the development of HIV-prevention knowledge and Indigenous youth leadership are helping to involve a diverse cross-section of youth in a critical dialogue about health. Arts-based approaches represent one way to assist with decolonization for future generations.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Ontario HIV Treatment Network and supported by the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFlicker, S., Danforth, J.Y., Wilson, C., Oliver, V., Larkin, J., Restoule, J., … Prentice, T. (2014). “Because we have really unique art”: Decolonizing Research with Indigenous Youth Using the Arts. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 10(1), 16-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijih.101201513271en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijih.101201513271
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/9368
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Indigenous Healthen_US
dc.subjectCanada
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subjectHIV
dc.subjectcommunity-based participatory research
dc.subjectarts-based research
dc.subjectyouth
dc.subjectdecolonization
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Indigenous Education
dc.title“Because we have really unique art”: Decolonizing Research with Indigenous Youth Using the Artsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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