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Define resilience within American Indian health promotion and public health interventions
Identify protective measures of family, culture and storytelling
Describe the benefits of digital storytelling in documenting life narratives
“An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.” (Merriam-Webster 2013)
“...dynamic process that enables the individual to respond or adapt under adverse situations.” (Stumblingbear-Riddle & Romans 2012,
p. 2)
“Resilience is the capacity to adapt successfully in the face of threats or disaster.”(This Emotional Life PBS)
Resilience is used in biological,
physical and social sciences and
in organizational theory and
education. Resilience. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, accessed April 1, 2013. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resilienceThis Emotional Life. PBS. Accessed April 1, 2013. http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/topic/resilience/what-resilience
• Researchers have provided biological, psychological, and sociocultural explanations for the disparities faced by American Indians.
• Recent research has explored the impact of historical trauma, loss, grief, colonization, genocide, and forced assimilation on American Indian well-being.
• Researchers have suggested that the multiple traumas experienced by American Indians are passed downgenerationally because these past experiences have not yet been grieved.
Berry, Kim, Minde, & Mok, 1987; Brave Heart, 1999, 2003; Brave Heart, Chase, Elkins, & Altschul, 2011; Duran, 2006; Duran & Duran, 1995; Gone, 2007; Whitbeck, Walls, Johnson, Morrisseau, & McDougall, 2009
• Resilience: The concept of resilience in public health research includes individual internal characteristics and external support from family and community.
• Cultural Resilience: For American Indians and other ethnic groups, the role of culture is a strength.
• Culture: Shared rules, beliefs,
attitudes and practices, which perceptions and shape our interpretation
of life events
Intergenerational memories: The family holds values, customs, traditions and memories that guide a person’s actions throughout their lives.
Family/community transmit cultural identity to their children and future generations.
Culture is a key factor in developing personal resilience. Family, mentors, and kin/clan network
guide a person to develop self-esteem, self-reliance, confidence and efficacy by modeling cultural appropriate behaviors via storytelling and ceremonies.
• Scale asks children 20 questions• Do you know where your grandparents grew up? • Do you know where your mom and dad went to high school? • Do you know where your parents met? • Do you know an illness or something really terrible that happened in your
family?
• The more children knew about their family’s history (ups & downs) the more they were resilient: the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their self-esteem and more successfully they believed their families functioned.
• Strong intergenerational self: Children know they belong to something bigger than themselves.
• Sense-making: The building of
a narrative that explains what the group is about
Bruce Feiler, The Stories That Bind Us. New York Times. Accessed March 17,2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/fashion/the-family-stories-that-bind-us-this-life.html?_r=1&
• Research indicates that historical trauma becomes even more painful when it seems to be forgotten, trivialized, or denied: “conspiracy of silence.”
• Sharing stories is a traditional native practice that provides a vehicle for learning and healing.
• Narratives grounded within a strengths-based perspective emphasize how family members are successful in overcoming difficulties and remaining strong in the face of traumatic circumstances or change.
“ If you don ’ tknow your past,you don’t knowyour future.”
Resilience: “First is confronting the historical trauma. Second is understanding the trauma. Third is releasing the pain of historical trauma. Fourth is transcending the trauma.” (Brave Heart, M. Y. H., Chase,
J., Elkins, J., & Altschul, D. B. 2011)
• Resilience and American Indian adolescents– Measures variables of school success (LaFromboise et al., ‘06; Whitesell et al., ‘09)
– Positive relationship among enculturation and resilience in addition to familial, communal and school influences among reservation adolescents (LaFromboise et al.,2006 and 2010)
– Social Support, rather than enculturation, influences resilience in urban American Indian adolescents (Stiffman et al.2007; Stumblingbear-Riddle and Romans)
Results: A prominent sense of culture in family and community could serve as positive force for reservation-dwelling American Indians.
What's in the heart--Children of the 7th Generation"
Wisdom of the Elders: Healing With The Heroes Journey Model
Resilience is embedded in the culture.
Cultural Resilience is a construct that originated from the traditional life ways of Native American people and provides the theoretical basis for the strength and resilience found in Native cultures.
Wisdom of the Elders. Transcending Historical Trauma . Accessed April 1, 2013 http://discoveringourstory.wisdomoftheelders.org/resources/transcending-historical-trauma; Resilience and Stereotyping: The Experience of Native American Elders http://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/hde/research/NIH-D.Grandbois.pdf
• To recover the loss of cultural traditions and family structure across generations, Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (WISDOM) has produced the Discovering Our Story Project, and is sharing video-recorded stories of resilient Native Americans.
Resilience and Stereotyping: The Experience of Native American Elders
Resilience research among American Indians is an emerging field.
Current/past research has focused on a deficit model.
There are few studies on
resilience, American Indian
elders, and urban AI populations.
• Co-PIs: Agnes Attakai and Kerstin M. Reinschmidt
• CAIR pilot research uses community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles to document stories of resilience among urban American Indian elders at the Tucson Indian
Center (TIC).
• Defining resilience from the perspective of urban American Indian elders
• Developing a resilience curriculum for youth and families based on the elder digital stories
Developed a partnership between UA MEZCOPH and TIC
Formed community advisory board (CAB): MEZCOPH, TIC, AI elders
Conducted 1 focus group with 15 AI elders
Held CAB member training: Human Subject Protection, qualitative analysis
Conducted 13 elder interviews
Transcribe 1 focus group and 13 elder interviews; code for themes
Create digital stories based on elder interviews
Review digital stories with elders
Conduct focus group on developed digital stories
Develop 12 bi-monthly workshops from qualitative interview themes
Pilot test and evaluate workshops at TIC
Our CAB holds monthly meetings at the Tucson Indian Center
Topics covered during meetings include
Project updates
Demonstration and explanation of digital stories
Discussion about CBPR
Reciprocal relationship building UA staff will assist CAB members
with projects (i.e. family history
books, family digital stories)
Held one 2-hr focus group with
13 females and 2 males, age 55+,
who self-identified as American Indian
Participants were given a $25 gift card
Focus group was voice recorded and transcribed
Two coding workshops were held and attended by UA staff, 1 elder, and 1 TIC staff member
Our team is in the process of coding the transcription to finalize themes that will contribute to digital stories and workshops
11 females and 2 males, age 55+, were interviewed
Interviews lasted 1-3 hours
Participants were given a $25 gift card
Interviews were video recorded and/or voice recorded
UA staff are editing the stories
UA staff will work with participants to create a digital story
What do you think of when you hear the words “historical trauma”?
How have your ancestors’ experiences with historical trauma or historical cultural shock impacted your community (or communities you have lived in)?
What are some examples of community resiliency that have helped your urban community face the challenges related to historical trauma or [term suggested by elder]?
How important are spiritual resources in coping with life’s challenges?
Sense of loss and removal from family Adopted, sent to boarding schools/Mormon
foster programs
Prayer and God are central to getting through hard times (i.e. leaning on a higher power)
Importance of role models
Self-advocacy of individuals It is up to individuals to make a better life for
themselves.
Prayer and God are central to getting through hard times (i.e. leaning on a higher power).
Family is a very important strength. There are differences, but they pull through challenges together.
Participation in social networks Volunteer, help with family, help at schools, in
community
The Tucson Indian Center is a key resource in many elders lives (i.e. programs for families and youth, sobriety)
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Brave Heart, M. Y. H. (2003). The historical trauma response among Natives and its relationship to substance abuse: A Lakota illustration. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 35, 7-13. doi: 10.1080/02791072.2003.10399988
Brave Heart, M. Y. H., Chase, J., Elkins, J., & Altschul, D. B. (2011). Historical trauma among Indigenous peoples of the Americas: Concepts, research, and clinical considerations. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 43(4), 282-290. doi:10.1080/02791072.2011.628913
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Whitesell, N. R., Mitchell, C. M., Spicer, P., & The Voices of Indian Teen Project Team. (2009). A longitudinal study of self-esteem, cultural identity, and academic success among American Indian adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology,15(1), 38-50. doi:10.1037/a0013456
Agnes Attakai, MPA
Tara Chico, MPH
Felina Cordova, MPH
Rebecca Drummond, MA
Carmella Kahn-Thornbrugh, MPH
Kerstin M. Reinschmidt, PhD, MPH
Nancy Stroupe, MA, MPH
Julie Tippens, MA, MPH
Shannon Whitewater
Nolando Neswood
Nicolette Teufel-Shone, PhD
(Co-PI NAU/UA CAIR Grant)
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparitiesof the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P20MD006872. The content is solely the responsibility of theauthors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”