Wapekeka's COVID-19 response: A local response to a global pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorLoukes, Keira A.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Stan
dc.contributor.authorBeardy, Jonas
dc.contributor.authorRondeau, Mayhève Clara
dc.contributor.authorRobidoux, Michael A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-04T18:08:43Z
dc.date.available2022-11-04T18:08:43Z
dc.date.copyright2022en_US
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractTwo years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many nations and communities continue to grapple with waves of infection and social fallout from pandemic fatigue and frustration. While we are still years away from realizing the full impacts of COVID-19, reflecting on our collective responses has offered some insights into the impact that various public health policies and decisions had on nations’ abilities to weather the multifaceted impacts of the pandemic. Widely believed to have the potential to be devastated by COVID-19, many Indigenous communities in Canada were extremely successful in managing outbreaks. This paper outlines one such example, Wapekeka First Nation, and the community’s formidable response to the pandemic with a specific focus on food mobilization efforts. Built on over a decade of community-based participatory action research and informed by six interviews with key pandemic leaders in the community, this paper, co-led by two community hunters and band council members, emphasizes the various decisions and initiatives that led to Wapekeka’s successful pandemic response. Proactive leadership, along with strong traditional harvesting and processing efforts, helped to take care of the community while they remained strictly isolated from virus exposure.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis paper draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council under grant [435-2018-1090].en_US
dc.identifier.citationLoukes, K. A., Anderson, S., Beardy, J., Rondeau, M. C., & Robidoux, M. A. (2022). “Wapekeka’s COVID-19 response: A local response to a global pandemic.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(18), 11562. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811562en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191811562
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14396
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthen_US
dc.subjectFirst Nationsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous healthen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19 responseen_US
dc.subjectfood securityen_US
dc.subjectfood sovereigntyen_US
dc.subjectFirst Nations governanceen_US
dc.subjectsubarctic Ontarioen_US
dc.subjecttraditional fooden_US
dc.titleWapekeka's COVID-19 response: A local response to a global pandemicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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