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Growing from Our Roots: Strategies for Developing Culturally Grounded Health Promotion Interventions in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities

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Abstract

Given the paucity of empirically based health promotion interventions designed by and for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian (i.e., Native) communities, researchers and partnering communities have had to rely on the adaptation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) designed for non-Native populations, a decidedly sub-optimal approach. Native communities have called for development of Indigenous health promotion programs in which their cultural worldviews and protocols are prioritized in the design, development, testing, and implementation. There is limited information regarding how Native communities and scholars have successfully collaborated to design and implement culturally based prevention efforts "from the ground up." Drawing on five diverse community-based Native health intervention studies, we describe strategies for designing and implementing culturally grounded models of health promotion developed in partnership with Native communities. Additionally, we highlight indigenist worldviews and protocols that undergird Native health interventions with an emphasis on the incorporation of (1) original instructions, (2) relational restoration, (3) narrative-[em]bodied transformation, and (4) indigenist community-based participatory research (ICBPR) processes. Finally, we demonstrate how culturally grounded interventions can improve population health when they prioritize local Indigenous knowledge and health-positive messages for individual to multi-level community interventions.

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    There is limited information on how Native communities and health researchers have successfully collaborated to design culturally based prevention efforts rooted in Indigenous knowledges, protocols, and practices from the ground up.

    “However, to date, there is limited information on how Native communities and health researchers have successfully collaborated to design culturally based prevention efforts rooted in Indigenous knowledges, protocols, and practices from the ground up.”
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    When Native health interventions are based on non-Native EBIs, they typically only measure the quantity and frequency of particular cultural practices as the underlying mechanisms for health behavior and change, and they ignore the epistemological foundation that frames Native cultural practices.

    “Methodologically, when Native health interventions are based on non-Native EBI’s, they typically only measure the quantity and frequency of particular cultural practices as the underlying mechanisms for health behavior and change. In doing so, they ignore the epistemological foundation that frames Native cultural practices.”
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    EBIs supplemented with decontextualized cultural or practice add-ons continue to operate within the Western-oriented worldview that upholds the EBI.

    “Often times EBIs are supplemented with decontextualized cultural or practice add-ons (e.g., replacing English words with tribal language); in doing so, they continue to operate within the Western-oriented worldview that upholds the EBI.”
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    To date, the majority of obesity and substance abuse prevention efforts in Indian Country have primarily ignored Original Instructions and resources that contemporary Native culture can provide.

    “To date, the majority of obesity and substance abuse prevention efforts in Indian Country have primarily ignored OI and resources that contemporary Native culture can provide.”
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    Culturally grounded adaptation of EBIs remains difficult because Native entities are often under resourced and lack necessary support to culturally adapt an intervention.

    “Culturally grounded adaptation of EBIs remains difficult because Native entities are often under resourced and lack necessary support to culturally adapt an intervention.”
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    Health interventions that include narrative transformation can serve to decolonize internalized and embodied narratives of victimization into narratives of hope and well-being.

    “Health interventions that include narrative transformation can serve to decolonize internalized and embodied narratives of victimization into narratives of hope and well-being.”
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    The arts, music, and stories are important vehicles to transmit OI and ways of being in the world.

    “The arts, music, and stories are important vehicles to transmit OI and ways of being in the world.”
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    Many Native communities are revitalizing their songs, dances, and stories to embrace ancestors’ vision and teachings, decolonize minds and bodies, and transcend histories of colonization and internalized embodied colonizing patterns of thought.

    “Many Native communities are revitalizing their songs, dances, and stories to not only embrace their ancestors’ vision and teachings, but going further, to decolonize their minds and their bodies, and to transcend their histories of colonization and the internalization of unchecked embodied colonizing patterns of thought, that despite incredible resilience, may persist.”
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    The body has emerged as a key focus in the social and behavioral sciences and can serve as a site for relational restoration.

    “Recently, the body has emerged as a key focus in the social and behavioral sciences and can serve as a site for relational restoration.”
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    Native scholars and scientists have begun to examine how Indigenous dance can be a site for relational restoration and promotion for health and well-being.

    “Native scholars and scientists have begun to examine how Indigenous dance can be a site for this relational restoration and promotion for health and well-being.”
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    Hula connects dancers to their bodies and directly connects them to their ancestors; this ancestral thread is activated through ancient chants, rhythms, and stories.

    “For example, hula, the traditional Indigenous dance form of Kānaka Maoli not only connects the dancers to their bodies, but also directly connects them to their ancestors. This ancestral thread is activated within their mind, body and spirit through the ancient chants, rhythms, and stories being expressed.”
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    Native scholars argue that IK, OI, and relational worldviews are often embedded in stories, songs, dances, and other cultural practices, and utilizing these art-based experiences are increasingly finding their place in Indigenous health research scholarship.

    “Native scholars argue that IK, OI, and relational worldviews are often embedded in the stories, songs, dances, and other cultural practices, and utilizing these art-based experiences are increasingly finding their place in Indigenous health research scholarship.”
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    Hula remains a powerful force for expressing ancestral knowledges while promoting relational connectedness, well-being, and cultural grounding.

    “Contemporarily, hula remains a powerful force for expressing the ancestral knowledges while also promoting relational connectedness, well-being, and cultural grounding.”
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    The cultural practice of hula is inextricably linked to the words of accompanying chants and songs that convey stories, teachings, history, and deep place-based IK, which provides nurturing relational restoration and OI to dancers and audiences.

    “The cultural practice of hula is inextricably linked to the words of the accompanying chants and songs that traditionally convey the stories, teachings, history, and deep place-based IK which, in turn, provides nurturing relational restoration and OI to the dancers and their audiences.”
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    There is a critical need to develop community-based interventions aimed at reduction of environmental contaminant exposures relevant to Native communities.

    “There is a critical need to develop community-based interventions aimed at reduction of environmental contaminant exposures relevant to Native communities.”
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    Indoor Air Quality exposures can be impacted by residential wood heating, which is often the most economic and culturally preferred form of home heating for many rural Native communities.

    “Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) exposures can be impacted by residential wood heating, which is the often the most economic and culturally preferred form of home heating for many rural Native communities.”
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    Biomass smoke exposure is associated with respiratory disease in susceptible populations, i.e., young and elder Native populations.

    “However, such biomass smoke exposure is associated with respiratory disease in susceptible populations, (i.e., young and elder Native populations).”
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    Very few environmental science interventions have been conducted in collaboration with Indigenous communities.

    “To date, very few environmental science interventions have been conducted in collaboration with Indigenous communities.”
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    Substance abuse among American Indians is a critical health disparity and accounts for many life threatening and deadly problems such as auto accidents, chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, homicide and suicide.

    “Substance abuse among American Indians (AI) is a critical health disparity and accounts for many life threatening and deadly problems such as auto accidents, chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, homicide and suicide.”
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    Linguistic competence is a hallmark of ICBPR, with incorporation of Indigenous languages and their worldviews in instruments, interventions, and dissemination materials in culturally credible and legible ways.

    “Moreover, linguistic competence is another hallmark of ICBPR, with incorporation of Indigenous languages, and the worldviews inherent within them, in the instruments, the interventions, and the dissemination materials in culturally credible and legible ways.”
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Authors
Walters, K. L., Johnson-Jennings, M., Stroud, S., Rasmus, S., Charles, B., John, S., Allen, J., Kaholokula, J. K., Look, M. A., de Silva, M., Lowe, J., Baldwin, J. A., Lawrence, G., Brooks, J., Noonan, C. W., Belcourt, A., Quintana, E., Semmens, E. O., & Boulafentis, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (US)
  • University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
  • Florida State University (US)
  • Northern Arizona University (US)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
  • University of Montana (US)
  • Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee (US)
Corresponding author
Walters, Karina L.
Venue
Prevention Science
Published
2018-11-06
Volume
21
Issue
S1
Pages
54-64
ISSN
  • 1389-4986 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-6695
OpenAlex
W2899999114
Cited by
286
References
28
Citations by year
2026: 30 · 2025: 48 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 3
FWCI
16.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Prevention Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (submittedVersion)
  • UNC Libraries
Funders
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA037176, R01DA035143)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01AA023754)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL126577)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R01ES022583, R01ES022649)
  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (1P60MD006909)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Community Health and Development
  • Social Sciences › Education › Indigenous and Place-Based Education
Keywords
Indigenous health, community-based participatory research, narrative transformation, indigenous knowledge, community partnerships, evidence-based intervention adaptation
MeSH terms
Health Equity, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Indians, North American, Male, United States, Program Development, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Cultural Competency

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