Siksikaitsitapi Parenting of Children with Disabilities

Yellow Old Woman, Pearl

Siksikaitsitapi Parenting of Children with Disabilities

dc.contributor.advisor	Hughson, E. Anne
dc.contributor.author	Yellow Old Woman, Pearl
dc.contributor.committeemember	Milaney, Katrina J.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Roach, Pamela M.
dc.contributor.committeemember	Leason, Jennifer
dc.contributor.committeemember	Ottmann, Jacqueline
dc.date	2020-11
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-28T13:26:07Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-28T13:26:07Z
dc.date.issued	2020-09-22
dc.description.abstract	Canada has a dark colonial history with her relationship with the Indigenous population that entered the national consciousness through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report findings released in June 2015. It illuminated and informed Canadians about the Indian residential school survivor experience when many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and communities to attend these schools. The traumatic impact to survivors was detrimental to their health and Indigeneity, which compromised Indigenous family systems and influenced parental skills. Research suggests that disability among Indigenous people is rising within the general Canadian population and recommendations are consistent in addressing the dearth in literature to comprehend Indigenous experiences of impairment, disability, health, education, marginality, oppression and colonization related to parenting practices. Today, Indigenous parents continue to endure many challenges, in particular, achieving health service equity in provision for the needs of their children who have disabilities. Despite facing adversarial predicaments, there are Indigenous parents who demonstrate resilient strength-based approaches to parenting. This Indigenous community-based study explored the parental stories of Siksika (Blackfoot) parents to comprehend how they parent a child with a disability within their community. An Indigenous framework informed by Siksika ontology and epistemology guided the project. The collaborative story analysis gathered from parental stories were interpreted and discussed according to the teachings of the Siksikaitsitapi. A decolonizing theoretical approach utilizing an Indigenous methodology contributes to the scholarship of Indigenous knowledge, identity, parenting and creates an understanding that can inform and enhance culturally competent health care for Siksika children.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Yellow Old Woman, P. (2020). Siksikaitsitapi Parenting of Children with Disabilities (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38252
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112593
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Cumming School of Medicine	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	Indigenous Health	en_US
dc.subject	Indigenous Children	en_US
dc.subject	Disability and Family	en_US
dc.subject	Blackfoot	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Health	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Education--Social Sciences	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Native American Studies	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Individual and Family Studies	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Public Health	en_US
dc.title	Siksikaitsitapi Parenting of Children with Disabilities	en_US
dc.type	doctoral thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Medicine – Community Health Sciences	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	en_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopy	true	en_US