Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women’s Healing From Drug Abuse
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Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women’s Healing From Drug Abuse Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The 6 th Gathering Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project (#74289)
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Hearing Our Voice: First Nations Women’s Healing
From Drug Abuse
Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, The 6th Gathering
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project (#74289)
AIM
To share information on how women’s
voices are central to a research project, and how they, in
turn, inform about First Nations, Métis and Inuit women’s
healing from substance abuse.
Developing the
research
Sharing the
researchDoing the research
Hearing women’s voices in…
Aboriginal Women Drug Users in Conflict with the Law: A Study of the Role of Self-Identity in the
Healing Journey
What are the experiential paths of Aboriginal women in conflict with the law in the creation and recreation of their self-identity, accounting
for associated role expectations and stigma, while in treatment for illicit drug use (defined
as the healing journey)?
And how do treatment program workers influence women’s constitution and
reconstitution of their self-identity and what is the relation to their healing?
Project Background• Research partnership began in
2005:Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA)Carleton University & University of SaskatchewanNational Native Addictions Partnership Foundation (NNAPF)
• Applied Aboriginal
methodology and a community-based participatory approach to research
• Mainly First Nations as well as
some Métis and Inuit women shared their stories
Doing Research
by, for and in balance
with
HEARING OUR VOICE IN DEVELOPING THE RESEARCH
HEARING OUR VOICE IN DOING THE RESEARCH
Identity Transformation
+ Cultural
Understanding =
The Healing Journey
THE HEALING JOURNEY
HEARING OUR VOICE IN SHARING THE RESEARCH
Broken barriers and new discoveries
My spirit I now reclaimComing home to who I amTaking honour in my name
No longer a prisoner lost in this world
Look within my shellTo find that pearl
CHORUS:From stilettos to moccasins
Our spirit dances withinOn our way to resolution
We find our peaceAnd this is who I am
I survived through the painMany emotions like waves
Laughing and crying again and againHonesty, strength, friends and
devotionShowering gifts of hope to reclaim
Walking the streets dragging my heart
Wandering with my head held down in shame
When and how did my family fall apart
Who am I, what is my name?
BRIDGE:Surviving the street lost and aloneI started a journey to find my way
home
CHORUS:From stilettos to moccasins
Our spirit dances withinOn our way to resolution
We find our peaceAnd this is who I am
FROM STILETTOS TO MOCCASINS
From Stilettos to MoccasinsA video of the healing journey
Workshop AIMS 1) To raise awareness about the role of
identity and stigma in the healing journeys of Aboriginal women in treatment for drug abuse.
2) To offer hope and inspiration gathered from over 100 Aboriginal women in substance abuse treatment who shared their healing journeys.
3) To learn from one another.
To contact our teamColleen Anne DellDepartment of Sociology & School of Public Health1015 Arts Building, 9 Campus DriveSaskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 CanadaTel: 306- 966-5912Email: [email protected] or [email protected]: http://www.addictionresearchchair.comClick on ‘creating knowledge’ and then ‘national’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QRb8wA2iHs
