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A Pathway to “Becoming”: Stories About Indigenization From One Indigenous Health Scholar

A Pathway to “Becoming”: Stories About Indigenization From One Indigenous Health Scholar

Chantelle A. M. Richmond
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781799836186|ISBN10: 1799836185|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799836193|EISBN13: 9781799836209
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3618-6.ch005
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Richmond, Chantelle A. M. "A Pathway to “Becoming”: Stories About Indigenization From One Indigenous Health Scholar." Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy, edited by Taima Moeke-Pickering, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 70-86. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3618-6.ch005

APA

Richmond, C. A. (2020). A Pathway to “Becoming”: Stories About Indigenization From One Indigenous Health Scholar. In T. Moeke-Pickering, S. Cote-Meek, & A. Pegoraro (Eds.), Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy (pp. 70-86). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3618-6.ch005

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Richmond, Chantelle A. M. "A Pathway to “Becoming”: Stories About Indigenization From One Indigenous Health Scholar." In Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy, edited by Taima Moeke-Pickering, Sheila Cote-Meek, and Ann Pegoraro, 70-86. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3618-6.ch005

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Abstract

In Canada, an exciting transformation has taken place within the context of Indigenous health research and scholarship. As Canadian universities strive to embrace processes of indigenization, the author takes the position that much can be learned from the Indigenous health experience. Drawing in large part from her own journey into Indigenous health scholarship, first as a student and now as an academic leader, the goal of this chapter is to describe the author's pathway “to becoming” an independent Indigenous health scholar. Herein she shares stories that describe how her pathway—and her continued learning as a researcher, teacher, and mentor—has been shaped by the powerful experience of being engaged in these Indigenous health training environments. She describes the important sense of belonging and success she achieved from learning in such indigenized environments, but also of the internal struggles she has experienced when attempting to bridge these powerful practices within the wider university context, where the same openness to indigenized ways of learning and doing has not been similarly embraced.

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