Vale Sam Watson

2003

who, through their encouragement, have been instrumental to my personal and intellectual development. Grandma and Grandpa Swanson, thank you for teaching me to love so many things in life. My two siblings, LeAnn L. Ishcomer and Robert J. Ishcomer, are the context of my life. Robert and LeAnn, I am thankful that we experienced the intense joy and pain of our earliest years together. Our shared beginnings provide me with tremendous strength. I would also like to thank the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona, and in particular professors Luci Tapahonso, Eileen Luna-Firebaugh and Mary Jo Tippeconnic-Fox. As my committee members, these three professors have dedicated untold time and energy, not only to this thesis, but also to my personal and intellectual development. Thank you for your wisdom and guidance. I would also like to express my gratitude to Professor Manley Begay. Your courses exemplify the best that American Indian Studies has to offer, Thank you for guiding me toward balance. Two AISP courses were instrumental to the shaping of this thesis. My final paper for "American Indians and the Urban Experience," which was co-taught by Eileen Luna-Firebaugh and Susan Lobo during the spring semester 2003, produced the building blocks of this work. Secondly, the course "Research Methods" provided an important platform for feedback during the infant stages of this thesis. Thank you to the course instructors. Dr. Jay Stauss and Dr. Nancy Parezo, as well as to my fellow graduate students, for your repeated thoughtfiil critiques of my work. My colleagues, the graduate students of AIS, have been my saving grace, time and time again. I would particularly like to thank

Queensland Review, 2015

Exhibition reviews and shops. The text transforms the apparently innocuous landscapes, conveying a direct, visceral memory that Moffatt must have experienced in re-encountering these places. Each work is labelled, with 'bullied here', 'stole a mars bar' or 'tea at the reverends' among the tags. In 'Picturesque Cherbourg', Moffatt draws on the picture postcard tradition, focusing on sunny images of houses surrounded by white picket fences and flowering bushes. Under close examination, each image includes subtle rips, fractures and re-piecings, conveying a sense of trauma and unease. Cherbourg was the site of a government mission, where Indigenous people from Queensland and New South Wales were sent after being torn from their land. Members of the artist's family were relocated there in the 1920s. Another type of spirit and inhabitation is suggested in the luminous 'Night landscapes', shot in outback Queensland at night, along lonely stretches of highway. With their blurred forms and dim light, they convey a sense of eeriness and the inhabitation of something not visible to the naked eye, 'some lingering plasma residue of untold lives' (Kathryn Weir, http://blog.qag.qld.gov.au/tracey-moffatt-spirited). Shown on a wall-mounted digital frame, In and Out comprises snapshots taken by Moffatt in a mining town, and proposes another layer to the themes of possession and occupation of land and place. The work juxtaposes images of men quickly entering a brothel, anxious not to be seen lingering on the steps, with scenes of opencut mining pits and ravaged landscapes. This exploration of place and possession continues in her 'Pioneer Dreaming' series, a group of screen grabs of female actresses such as Ingrid Bergman and Elizabeth Taylor, reproduced on handmade paper in desert tones. Excerpted from iconic, romanticised films, these works focus on the genre of films in which American pioneers staked a claim to, and possessed, lands inhabited by Native Americans. Spirited offers an unusual exhibition premise, tightly focused around themes that are both universal and specific to Moffatt's own past. The inclusion of works by other artists from the QAGOMA collection complicates any straightforward, romanticised interpretation, offering multiple views of the intertwining of memory and place, and the encounters between Indigenous people and their colonisers. In particular, the works act as a return to place and a form of exorcism for Moffatt, bringing together many of the threads she has explored in her artworks throughout her career.

2016

Mentoring comes in many forms. We, as co-authors, one as a junior faculty and the other as a doctoral student at a predominantly white higher education institution in the Pacific Northwest, were blessed to be in community with Dr. Charlotte Goodluck. She was an inspirational Indigenous woman scholar warrior who passed away on December 3, 2014. We use this reflection to honor our relationship and the interactions we had with her. Her passing awoke and affirmed the wisdom of our intellectual ancestries. As we continue our respective journeys in the academy, we are stronger and more spiritually grounded. Our ancestors and their energies fuel us like intertwining braids. When we honor Dr. Goodluck and the deep meanings of our engagement and interactions with her, and how we make sense of our lived experiences, we honor our communities and the work we do collectively to rise up as a community of warriors!

2019

From its 19 th century origins, the modern western idealization of community planning has been about social justice, including the health and well-being of people and their environment, from the "garden cities" of the late 19 th century to today's healthy built environment work. But there has always been a dark side to this ideal. In North America, sociolegal frameworks were developed that deployed the language of "health" and "hygiene" to exclude specific groups of people from cities and towns. Indigenous peoples whose ancestral lands were adjacent to towns and cities were dispossessed of their territories and became the target of colonial bylaws that sought to criminalize their presence in urbanizing areas. Bringing together the fields of public health, planning and Indigenous studies, my research sought to understand how Indigenous experiences of health in urban areas have been discursively framed by colonization and continually impacted through settler colonialism. This case study explored how urban Indigenous community planning might be conceptualized at the nexus of health and justice in the work of one urban Indigenous organization, the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of BC (NCCABC). Through an examination of the dayto-day labours of frontline workers, I answered my primary research question: In what ways do the resurgent practices of NCCABC relate to the emerging theory and practice of Indigenous community planning? Information was gathered through immersive participation, interviews, a talking circle, and document analysis in four primary sites of study: NCCABC Health Services in downtown Vancouver, NCCABC Prince George office, and First Nations Courts in New Westminster and North Vancouver. I want to thank the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of BC (NCCABC) who patiently let me sit in on meetings, trainings, events, workshops and countless circles over many years. In particular, I thank the health team in Vancouver and Native Courtworkers in Prince George. I thank the Native Courtworkers who graciously gave their time for an interview, and all those I talked with informally and who provided important context, history and insights into NCCABC's work. I give special thanks to the clients and community members who spoke with me, who shared their stories, and who I was fortunate to sit with in circle. I have been inspired by so many friends, colleagues and mentors that I've been fortunate to meet throughout my years working at UBC and in the broader community. I hope that this dissertation resonates with the good work that you all do. Thank you to Leah Walker, James Andrew, Evan Adams, and Betty Calam for welcoming me into the field of Indigenous health and inspiring me to find unique ways to approach health and well-being. Thank you to Linc Kesler and Alannah Young who I first met at the First Nations House of Learning. Thank you to the Indigenous staff and faculty who continue to create spaces of safety and belonging for Indigenous students on campus. I'm grateful for the amazing work of the DUDES Club and the DUDES members all across BC. Many thanks to Paul Gross and Sandy Lambert for expanding my understanding of Indigenous men's health and community. Henry Charles is watching us all with a smile from the next world. I am so grateful to Genevieve Leis for setting me on the path with my research partner, and for your friendship and support through the years. To the friends and colleagues I have met through my studies at UBC, thank you for your friendship, guidance, laughter, music, and generally making me feel sane. Thanks to my cohort, Magdalena Ugarte and Jacopo Miro (and Jessica Hallenbeck who started out with us!). Thank you to the many cohorts of Indigenous Community Planning students. Thank you to Kate

This paper arises out of an informal collaboration forged in the Twitterverse between Dr Lynore Geia and Melissa Sweet, who come from different professional disciplines but share an interest in decolonising methodologies, amongst other things. We begin by introducing ourselves and locating ourselves in relation to the topic. Lynore Geia: I am a Bwgcolman woman from Palm Island, Queensland, a mother, registered nurse, midwife, senior lecturer and researcher in Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition at James Cook University. I coordinate and teach the Indigenous Health subject to undergraduate and postgraduate nursing and midwifery students. My current research activity involves working with my home community of Palm Island in partnership with the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector. In 2012 I graduated with my PhD titled "First steps, making footprints: intergenerational Palm Island families' Indigenous stories (narratives) of childrearing practice strengths". The study encompassed decolonising praxis through privileging Bwgcolman storytellers to tell their stories that debunked the 'master narrative' of hegemony, and revealed a people of strength, survival and resistance. Melissa Sweet: I am a public health journalist, an author, and a migloo, wadjela, gubba, mununga, or balanda, depending upon location. I live and work on Country that is understood to be on the boundary of the Tharawal people in rural NSW. I moderate the public health blog Croakey, and am a founding member of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation based at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at Melbourne University. I am currently undertaking a PhD at Canberra University, which is testing the use of a decolonising methodology for journalism. I have an honorary appointment as adjunct senior lecturer in the Sydney School of Public Health at the University of Sydney.

Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work

2009

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Visual Studies, 2005

The American Indian Quarterly, 2003