Treaty, Indigenous Health and Food Security

What happened in the 1600s to the 1800s?

Trade off from the HBC to the Crown for 1.5 million dollars

Dominion Lands Act

Allowed for the grands of land in Western Canada

• Land from the crown and HBC

• Late 1800s

Royal Proclamation

Treaties formation in the 1700s, which contributed to the formation of Canada

Treaty 6

Negotiations between the crown and bands of the Creek and Stoney Nakoda First Nations near a lake

• Agreement to surrender land rights (written)

• Provision assistance, agrarian economy, medicine, and schools

• Money per person (5 dollars)

• Adhesions (joined later on)

Treaty 7

Negotiations between the crown and the lower Alberta indigenous nations (Piikani, siksika, Stoney nakoda, etc)

• Segregated lands (reserves)

Treaty 8

Agreement between the crown and Métis

• Later agreement in upper Canada

• Crown resisted first but was later made when mineral (gold) was discovered

What led to treaties being made?

• Starvation

• Disease

• Settlers

• War threats from the crown

• Indian Act of 1800s

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Citizen of the Potawatomi Nation

• Shared her experiences and thoughts on indigenous was of life

Social Determinants of Health

Conditions that shapes peoples’’ daily lives

• Economic and social polices that develop peoples’ daily lives

What are some social determinants of life?

• Income and social protection (main ones)

• Education

• Employment and job security

• Working conditions

• Food

• Housing

• Social support

• Health care

Indigenous Sickness

There a certain things in history and today that forces indigenous to lose parts of their culture or hurting themselves

• Not just with the body and health of it but also the internal health

• Cultural and relations

• Social determinants are NOT uplifted

• History of indigenous is a HUGE part of this

What are some aspects of indigenous health?

• Traditional medicine

• Spirituality

• Connection to Land

• Language

• Culture and Identity

• Kinship and Family

Medicine wheel

• White: Spiritual, buffalo, sweet grass, courage, kindness

• Yellow: Mental, Eagle, tobacco, strength, communication

• Black: Physical, Bear, sharing, sage, negative energy

• Red: Emotional, hawk, cedar, honesty, positive energy

Allegiance of Gratitude (Thanksgiving address)

Things to be thankful of life for the cycles of life to continue.

“Now our minds are one”

Proximal, Intermediate, Distal

• Proximal: Exterior factors, such as income, education, and substance use

• Intermediate: Culture and support

• Distal: Racism, history, colonialism, Indian Acts, etc

How can we build UP instead of down? (Consider their past before their appearance)