Pathways to Reconciliation: A Knowledge Exchange Forum or Dena' acla' nee' dale Focused on the History of Tuberculosis in Treaty 8

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Long, Richard

• SSHRC CG awarded 2019: Tuberculosis (TB) is an endemic disease within many Indigenous communities in the Treaty 8 territory. It has roots both within the historical contexts of the affected communities, and the historic failure of clinical medicine to achieve culturally relevant health outcomes. In February, 2020, we are planning to host a knowledge exchange forum that brings together members from distinct disciplines in order to mobilize knowledge about persistent TB in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Our objective is to initiate a dialogue about TB prevention and care, led by community members and those in the humanities to disseminate knowledge, and facilitate partnerships for reconciliation. Eventual elimination of TB is a goal within our grasp, but depends on culturally relevant programs working within communities towards improved health outcomes. Conceptually, our knowledge exchange event willfocus on the knowledge held by community members, and the historical record including the rights of Indigenous peoples as they relate to the interface between government/western medicine/universities, and communities living with persistently high rates of TB. It will be an opportunity to learn about the lived experience of those who face the potential risk of acquiring TB daily, and those who have dealt with it in the past. A purely biomedical understanding of TB prevention and care is not enough. Enriched partnerships with communities and the humanities provide an environment within which the immediate goal of TB elimination and the larger goal of self-determination can occur. Without renewed partnerships and relationships between diverse TB stakeholders, the spirit of reconciliation is not likely achievable.

• Date created

  2019-07-31

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Connection Grant
  • CG
  • SSHRC
  • Reconciliation
  • Indigenous Health
  • Tuberculosis
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Research Capacity
  • History of Health Services
  • Indigenous History
  • Public Health
  • Health
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • 1870AD-1942AD
  • 1899AD-2019AD
  • Northern Canada
  • Western Canada

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-34r2-6m89

• License

  ©️Long, Richard. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2021.