Decolonizing Data

Jacqueline M. Quinless is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.

Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Dedication

Preface 
Relational Accountability
About this Book
How the Book is Organized

1.Introduction
The Importance of Power and Place: Place-Based Consciousness
Who is Indigenous?
Indigenous Peoples and the Urban Landscape in Canada
Indigenous Perspectives on the Good Life
The Link Between Social Capital and Indigenous Well-Being

2. The Impacts of Colonization on Indigenous Health and Well-being
Setter State Policy and Indigenous Peoples
Assimilation Policy and Poor Health Outcomes
The Indian Reserve System
The Residential School System
Historical Trauma for Generations to Come
Acts of Reconciliation
The 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP)
The 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

3. Decolonizing Bodies and a Self-Governing Health System
Indigenous Well-being and Urban Life
Beyond the Western Medical Model and Decolonizing Bodies
Health Transformation and Self-Determination
Health Governance and the First Nations Health Authority

4. Social Capital Theory, Health Indicators and Indigenous Communities
Historical Overview: Bourdieusian Social Capital and Health Status
Social Capital Analysis and Applied Social Research
Social Capital Theory and Colonization
Moving Beyond the GDP: Social and Economic Indicators of Well-being
How is Well-Being Measured in Canada?
How is Indigenous Well-Being Measured in Canada?
Indigenous Health Indictors Frameworks

5. Decolonizing Data and Critical Research Methods
Decolonizing Methodologies
Ethics: Honoring Indigenous Protocols and Relational Accountability
Participation Action Research and Indigenous Communities
Two-Eyed Seeing and Indigenous Health Outcomes
Qualitative Findings
The Origin Story of the First Nations Perspective on Health and Wellness
Traditional Knowledge
Data Governance and Ownership
From Illness Models to Wellness Perspectives
A Critical Data Approach
Decolonizing Data and Indigenous Health Outcomes
The 2012 Aboriginal People’s Survey and Measuring Historical Trauma
Individual and Community Level Factors Affecting Indigenous Health Outcomes
Quantitative Findings
Transgenerational Trauma and Health Outcomes
Indigenous Culture as Resistance to Trauma

6. Conclusion
Indigenous-Based Determinants of Health and Wellness
Social Capital and Indigenous Health and Wellness
Critical Reflections
Allyship and Solidarity
Relational Allyship and Responsive Research
Responsive Research, the TRAC Method and Indigenous Data Sovereignty
The Limitations of Two-Eyed Seeing
Indigenous Data Sovereignty
References