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WGST 305: Decolonizing Mental Health (Rev. 3) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Grounding & Situating

Vowel, C. (2016). Indigenous writes: A guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit issues in Canada. Highwater Press.

Read:

•    Chapter 1—Just Don’t Call Us Late for Supper: Names for Indigenous Peoples
•    Chapter 2—Settling on a Name: Names for Non-Indigenous Canadians

Unit 2: What Is Decolonization?

Teves, S. N., Smith, A., & Raheja, M. (Eds.). (2015). Colonialism. In Native studies keywords (pp. 271–283). University of Arizona Press.
Asadullah, M. (2021). Decolonization and restorative justice: A proposed theoretical framework. Decolonization of Criminology and Justice, 3(1), 27–62.
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1–40.
Walia, H. (2012, January 1). Decolonizing together: Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization. Briarpatch Magazine.

Unit 3: Deconstructing Mental Health

Lavallee, L. F., & Poole, J. M. (2010). Beyond recovery: Colonization, health and healing for Indigenous people in Canada. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 8(2), 271–281.
Czyzewski, K. (2011). Colonialism as a broader social determinant of health. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2(1), pp. 1–14.
Schill, K., Terbasket, E., Thurston, W. E., Kurtz, D., Page, S., McLean, F., Jim, R., & Oelke, N. (2019). Everything is related and it all leads up to my mental well-being: A qualitative study of the determinants of mental wellness amongst urban Indigenous Elders. British Journal of Social Work, 49(4), 860–879.

Unit 4: Gender and Sexuality

Finley, C. (2011). Decolonizing the queer Native body (and recovering the Native bull-dyke): Bringing “sexy back” and out of Native studies’ closet. In Q. Driskill, C. Finley, B. J. Gilley, S. l. Morgensen (Eds.), Queer Indigenous studies: Critical interventions in theory, politics, and literature (pp. 31–42). University of Arizona Press.
Robinson, M. (2019). Two-spirit identity in a time of gender fluidity. Journal of Homosexuality, 67(12), 1675–1690.
Savarese, J. L. (2017). Challenging colonial norms and attending to presencing in stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 29(1), 157–181.
McArthur, E. (2020). Us. In S. Nickel & A. Fehr (Eds.), In good relation: History, gender, and kinship in Indigenous feminisms (p. 31). University of Manitoba Press.
Yerxa, J.-R. (2020). The uninvited. In S. Nickel & A. Fehr (Eds.), In good relation: History, gender, and kinship in Indigenous feminisms (p. 30). University of Manitoba Press.
Woods, M. K., & Yerxa, M. (Directors). (2016). Two soft things, Two hard things. [Film]. MKW Productions Inc. Posted with permission of Vtape.

Unit 5: Heart Berries and Apple Seeds

Recommended Readings for Heart Berries
Ascher, J. (2020). Heart berries [Review of the book Heart berries, by T. M. Mailhot]. Native American and Indigenous Studies, 7(2), 204–205.  
Mackay, J. (2018). Heart berries (Terese Marie Mailhot) [Review of the book Heart berries, by T. M. Mailhot]. Transmotion, 4(2), 222–224.
Robertson, C. L. (2013). “Indian princess/Indian squaw”: Representations of Indigenous women in Canada’s printed press. In Á. Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo & E. de Gregorio-Godeo (Eds.), Culture and power: Identity and identification (pp. 129–145). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Sium, A., & Ritskes, E. (2013). Speaking truth to power: Indigenous storytelling as an act of living resistance. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2(1), I–X.
Recommended Readings for Jonny Appleseed
Lalonde, J. (2020). “I am my own best medicine”: Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed and Two-Spirit resurgence. Aspeers, 13, 39–60.
Sullivan, C. (2021). “Hot, young, buff”: An Indigenous Australian gay male view of sex work. Social Inclusion, 9(2), 52–60.
Sium, A., & Ritskes, E. (2013). Speaking truth to power: Indigenous storytelling as an act of living resistance. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2(1), I–X.

Unit 6: Indigenous Approaches to Therapy and Trauma Work

Fellner, K. D. (2019). Therapy as ceremony: Decolonizing and Indigenizing our practice. In N. Arthur (Ed.), Counselling in cultural contexts: Identities and social justice (pp. 181–201). Springer.
Dupuis-Rossi, R., & Reynolds, V. (2019). Indigenizing and decolonizing therapeutic responses to trauma-related dissociation. In N. Arthur (Ed.), Counselling in cultural contexts: Identities and social justice (pp. 293–315). Springer.

Unit 7: Resurgence Through Art, Laughter, and Sex

Simpson, L. B. (2016). Indigenous resurgence and co-resistance. Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, 2(2), 19–34.
Ansloos, J., Morford, A. C., Dunn, N. S., DuPré, L., & Kucheran, R. (2022). Beading Native Twitter: Indigenous arts-based approaches to healing and resurgence. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 79, 1–11.
Burns, M. M. L. (2020). Reclaiming Indigenous sexual being: Sovereignty and decolonization through sexuality. The Arbutus Review, 11(1), 28–38.
Morris, K., & Morris, L. (2020). Camping out with Miss Chief: Kent Monkman’s ironic journey. Studies in American Humor, 6(2), 265–284.
Resources for Christi Belcourt—Walking With Our Sisters (2012–2021)
Walking With Our Sisters (2020). A Commemorative Art Installation for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women of Canada and the United States.
Sandals, L. (2014, July 7). Christi Belcourt Q&A: On Walking With Our Sisters. Canadian Art.
Resources for Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory—uaajeerneq
O’Neill, S. (Co-Creator & Host). (2019, September 27). Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory (Season 2, Episode 7) [TV series episode]. In S. O’Neill & M. Mama (Executive Producers), In the making. CBC Gem.
Folger, N. (2021, September 1). 13 questions with Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. Inuit Art Quarterly.
Resources for Rebecca Belmore—Facing the Monumental
O’Neill, S. (Co-Creator & Host). (2019, September 27). Rebecca Belmore (Season 2, Episode 8) [TV series episode]. In S. O’Neill & M. Mama (Executive Producers), In the making. CBC Gem.
Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental exhibition (2019). Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC).
Canadian Art Junkie. (2019).
Nanibush, W. (2020, October 15). In performances and photography, Rebecca Belmore faces the monumental. Aperture.

Unit 8: Psychiatry, Disability, and the Canton Asylum

Hutcheon, E. J., & Lashewicz, B. (2020). Tracing and troubling continuities between ableism and colonialism in Canada. Disability & Society, 35(5), 695–714.
Whitt, S. (2021). “Care and maintenance”: Indigeneity, disability and settler colonialism at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, 1902–1934. Disability Studies Quarterly, 41(4).
Yellow Bird, P. (n.d.). Wild Indians: Native perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians. National Empowerment Center.

Unit 9: White Benevolence in the Helping Professions

Simpson, L. B. (2017). Land as pedagogy. In As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance (pp. 145–173). University of Minnesota Press.

Please read pages 145 to 157 only.
Resources for Social Work
Fortier, C., & Hon-Sing Wong, E. (2019). The settler colonialism of social work and the social work of settler colonialism. Settler Colonial Studies, 9(4), 437–456.

Videos

Journal Introduction

Journal Entry: Why Decolonize?

Journal Entry: Land Acknowledgement

Journal Entry: Decolonial Lens

Journal Entry: Internal and External Colonialism

Journal Entry: Settler Moves to Innocence

Journal Entry: My Mental Health Meanings

Journal Entry: Un/Learning Gender and Sexuality

Journal Entry: Appropriating versus Appreciating

Journal Entry: Universities and Indigenization

Journal Entry: Shifting Meanings

Journal Entry: Helping and Harm