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WGST 505: Decolonizing Mental Health (Rev. 1) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Grounding and Situating

Vowel, C. (2016). Indigenous writes: A guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit issues in Canada. Highwater Press.
Beck, L. (2021). Euro-settler place naming practices for North America through a gendered and racialized lens. Terrae Incognitae, 53(1), 5–25.

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.
Wolfe, P. (2006). Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native. Journal of Genocide Research, 8(4), 387–409.
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

McCormick, R. (2020). Indigenous North American healing. In Moodley, R. & Lee, E. (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of race, culture and mental health (pp. 485–495). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
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.
Lugones, M. (2007). Heterosexualism and the colonial/modern gender system. Hypatia, 22(1), 186–219.
Hanson, E. (2009). Marginalization of Aboriginal women. Indigenous Foundations.arts.ubc.ca.
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.
Poetry
McArthur, E. (2020). Us. In S. Nickel & A. Fehr (Eds.), In good relation: History, gender, and kinship in Indigenous feminisms (p. 24). 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. 23). University of Manitoba Press.

Unit 5: Heart Berries and Apple Seeds

Required Reading 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.
Required Reading for Jonny Appleseed
Sullivan, C. (2021). “Hot, young, buff”: An Indigenous Australian gay male view of sex work. Social Inclusion, 9(2), 52–60.

Unit 6: Indigenous Approaches to Therapy and Trauma Work

Wesley-Esquimaux, C. C., & Snowball, A. (2010). Viewing violence, mental illness and addiction through a wise practices lens. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 8(2), 390–407.
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

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.
Corntassel, J. (2012). Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 86–101.
Morris, K., & Morris, L. (2020). Camping out with Miss Chief: Kent Monkman’s ironic journey. Studies in American Humor, 6(2), 265–284.
Simpson, L. B. (2016). Indigenous resurgence and co-resistance. Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, 2(2), 19–34.
Simpson, L. B. (2017). Creative combat: Resurgent artistic practice and Indigenous aesthetics: Coded disruption and affirmative refusal. In As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance (pp. 198–210). University of Minnesota Press.
Resources for Christi Belcourt—Walking With Our Sisters Exhibition (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: Psychiatrization, Disability, and Canton Asylum

Hutcheon, E. J., & Lashewicz, B. (2020). Tracing and troubling continuities between ableism and colonialism in Canada. Disability & Society, 35(5), 695–714.
Cohen, B. M. Z. (2020). A postcolonial critique of mental health: Empire and psychiatric expansionism. In R. Moodley & E. Lee (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of race, culture and mental health (pp. 32–42). Routledge.
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

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.