Canadian Residential Schools and Urban Indigenous Knowledge Production about Diabetes

Canadian Residential Schools and Urban Indigenous Knowledge Production about Diabetes

Indigenous peoples--Health and hygiene--Canada

Heather A. Howard

Medical Anthropology

Vol. 33

No. 6

2014

Informa UK Limited (Routledge/Taylor & Francis)

Journal article

English

15455882

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Restricted Access

The construction of illness as an inscription on the body of colonization figures importantly among Indigenous community-based service and health care providers. While residential schools and diabetes have both been characterized as products of colonization, little work has been done to examine how they are connected to and informative for health provider practice. The research data presented in this article come from a collaborative urban Indigenous community-based study examining the legacy of negative relationships with food that was instilled in residential schools and used in diabetes intervention. I illustrate how residential school disciplined eating, providing a context for understanding the contemporary production of Indigenous health knowledge and practice in the urban setting, and the diet-related management of diabetes.

Haley Lesemann