Research Snapshot: Cultural resilience doesn't reverse the impact of racial discrimination on perceived stress
Racial discrimination is known to be linked to stress and to various health conditions in people from First Nations communities. Resiliency—or the ability to bounce back from adversity—has been shown to play an important role in a person’s ability to cope with stress.
Ontario researchers conducted a study to find out if Aboriginal cultural resilience—or resilience that is based on traditional language, ceremonial activities, and the environment—would decrease stress associated with racial discrimination in people from First Nations communities.
EENet has developed a Research Snapshot that provides a plain language summary of this study. Read it here!
1988 U.S. Congressional Resolution #331 acknowledged the role of the Iroquois 'constitution' in the development of our US Constitution. What was 'Iroquois territory' also includes parts of Canada - at least the Huron territory. Over a half-century before the Magna Carta made it's debut in Europe, "Gayaneshagowa-the great law of Peace" availed women the Rights to: Assert, Debate, Vote, and Declare War; and left us 'democratic tools' like "Recall Petitions" and "Ballot Initiatives"; and provided for 'generational review'-which may have availed a constitutional change for 'Trans-Generational Trauma'....