[Indigsol] Fwd:New Solidarity Project - HIV and Indigenous Peoples: In the Aftermath of Trauma

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Subject: [colours] New Solidarity Project - HIV and Indigenous Peoples: In
the Aftermath of Trauma
From:    "Suzy Subways" <mizsubways at gmail.com>
Date:    Tue, November 25, 2008 7:50 pm
To:      Colours at lists.mutualaid.org
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December 2008 • Issue 9

*In this issue:*

   - HIV and Indigenous Peoples: In the Aftermath of
Trauma<#11dd4121cdde4ace_11dd3bde906a343c_1>
   - Cultural Healing: Native American Activists Say Boarding School Abuses
   Harmed the Health of Generations <#11dd4121cdde4ace_11dd3bde906a343c_2>
   - Land and Freedom: Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico Fight HIV
   and Repression <#11dd4121cdde4ace_11dd3bde906a343c_3>
   - TAKE ACTION - What You Can
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RESOURCES<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5pFyNWb29wr6xdj24kW83ebFOmbvdPkP>
   - Solidarity Workshop
   *HIV Prevention Toolkit for Native Communities: Historical and
   Socioeconomic Health Risks
*<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XtjJgHTL4uUO%2FvHrCgb2rsOElb7Ggf7S>

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 *  -Suzy Subways*
When stigma is attached to HIV, people's vulnerability to the virus is
discussed in terms of individual behavioral choices, and a community with
disproportionately high HIV rates is blamed for its supposed failures. The
injustice that drives HIV is covered up. But when we take the stigma away
and look at history, we see that homophobia shapes the epidemic among gay
men to a devastating degree, and that sexism makes women vulnerable. In
Native American communities, homophobia and sexism also drive the epidemic,
but in ways that are deeply rooted in racism, colonialism, and genocide.

"When conducting research among Native Americans, dispossession must be
considered as the underlying cause of the many existing health disparities,
including those that result in HIV/AIDS," according to a 2007 research brief
by John Lowe for the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
called "The Need for Historically Grounded HIV/AIDS Prevention Research
Among Native Americans." Lowe continues: "The policies enacted by the United
States government that enforced the dispossession of Native American Indian
lands and termination or assimilation of Native American culture have
resulted in a trauma of catastrophic proportions with destructive outcomes.
Aside from disease, these include disenfranchisement; extermination of
tradition, language, and land rights; broken treaties; sterilization of
women; placement of children in Indian boarding schools; and other
strategies of colonization."
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  Cultural Healing: Native American Activists Say Boarding School Abuses
Harmed the Health of
Generations<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Bw5D%2BqvXC4zqkNb30Pmtc%2BbFOmbvdPkP>
 "Many of the problems of alcoholism and drug abuse now prevalent in Indian
country can be traced back to the physical, emotional and sexual abuse
suffered at the hands of our keepers in the BIA [Bureau of Indian Affairs]
and mission boarding schools," Lakota journalist and boarding school
survivor Tim Giago wrote in the Huffington Post. Government-sponsored
boarding schools have created a legacy of trauma among Native American
peoples in the United States.
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More<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EinfX%2BbqLcjBU%2BbEYWsn3ObFOmbvdPkP>
  Land and Freedom: Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico Fight HIV and
Repression<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kXnQQsvZFurkgnITJoytgebFOmbvdPkP>
The United States has twice the HIV prevalence of Mexico, so it isn't
surprising that the need to cross the border for work has increased Mexican
communities' vulnerability to HIV. But the reasons for HIV's increase in
some places in Mexico - indigenous, rural communities far from the border -
may not be so obvious. "The state of Oaxaca has the highest HIV rate in
Southeastern Mexico," Oaxacan queer activist Leonardo Tlahui says. "One of
the primary factors is immigration.
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 *HIV Prevention Toolkit for Native Communities: Historical and
Socioeconomic Health Risks *
The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC) created this
HIV Prevention Toolkit for Native Communities to help public health workers
better serve Native communities. With this toolkit, we hope to enhance your
knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and behaviors as they pertain to
HIV/AIDS prevention among Native peoples.
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