Supporting Traditional Foodways Knowledge and Practices in Alaska Native Communities: The Elders Mentoring Elders Camp.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Sage Publications Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 100890609 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1524-8399 (Print) Linking ISSN: 15248399 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Health Promot Pract Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Original Publication: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c2000-
    • Subject Terms:
      Health Promotion* ; Indians, North American* ; Mentoring* ; Food* ; Diet* ; Culture*; Aged ; Humans ; Alaska ; Mentors
    • Abstract:
      The transmission of generational knowledge in Alaska Native communities has been disrupted by colonization and led to declining health among Alaska Natives, as evidenced by the loss of knowledge regarding traditional foods and foodways and increasing rates of cardiometabolic disorders impacting Alaska Natives. Elders play a central role in passing down this generational knowledge, but emerging Elders may have difficulty in stepping into their roles as Elders due to the rapid social and cultural changes impacting their communities. The Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) and the Denakkanaaga Elders Program are partnering with the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity to uplift and support traditional food knowledge and practices to promote health in Alaska Native communities. Guided by a decolonizing and Indigenizing framework, researchers at CANHR are working with Athabascan Elders in the Interior of Alaska to strengthen and protect the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge and practices for emerging Elders. This community-academic partnership will implement and evaluate an Elders Mentoring Elders Camp to focus on repairing and nurturing relationships through the practice and preservation of cultural knowledge and practices, including traditional foodways. This initiative contributes to the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, which is necessary to keep culture alive and thriving.
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Alaska Native; Native American; chronic disease; community-academic partnership; decolonization; food security; health equity; indigenous; indigenous communities; indigenous food sovereignty; indigenous knowledge
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20231025 Date Completed: 20231203 Latest Revision: 20231203
    • Publication Date:
      20231203
    • Accession Number:
      10.1177/15248399231190365
    • Accession Number:
      37877641