“I'm stronger than I thought”: Native women reconnecting to body, health, and place
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This community-based research applied principles of wilderness experience programming and Indigenous knowledges in an exploratory intervention designed to address health disparities in a tribal community. Drawing on historical trauma frameworks, tribal members rewalked the Trail of Tears to consider its effect on contemporary tribal health. Qualitative data from tribal members suggest that engagement with place and experiential learning, particularly the physical and emotional challenge of the Trail, facilitated changes in health beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Deep engagement outside of traditional health service settings should be considered in interventions and may be particularly effective in promoting positive health behaviors in Native communities.
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Yappalli's cultural innovation lies in incorporating experiential, outdoor, and culturally specific trail-based activities to promote group cohesion and to increase connection to ancestors and their Original Instructions.
“Yappalli cultural innovation lies in incorporating experiential, outdoor and culturally specific trail-based activities to promote group cohesion (Schultz et al., 2016) and to increase connection to the ancestors and their OI.”
From Growing from Our Roots: Strategies for Developing Culturally Grounded Health Promotion Interventions in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Communities (2020) · cites this paper as Schultz et al., 2016
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- Authors
- Schultz, K., Walters, K. L., Beltran, R., Stroud, S., & Johnson-Jennings, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Washington (US)
- Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schultz, Katie
- Venue
- Health & Place
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-07
- Volume
- 40
- Pages
- 21-28
- ISSN
- 1353-8292 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4940272
- OpenAlex
- W2345460102
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 8.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Health & Place (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (HHSN271201200663P, R01DA037176)
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health (P60MD006909)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Social Sciences › Education › Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Keywords
- Native American women, Indigenous health, health disparities, Trail of Tears, historical trauma, wilderness experience, indigenous knowledge, place-based interventions, health beliefs, health behavior, tribal communities, experiential learning
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Health Promotion, Humans, Indians, North American, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Qualitative Research, Health Status Disparities, Community-Based Participatory Research
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