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Empowering Words of First Nations Women

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Résumé :

Type 2 diabetes has reached alarming levels in Québec's aboriginal communities. Even though it strikes many First Nations members, women are more affected by this illness of the industrial age. Much more often than men they are diagnosed as diabetic and end up being the caregivers for diabetics in their immediate environment. They are the ones who have to shoulder the responsibility of caring for the health of their family members.

Even though these women have much expertise, health professionals persist in seeing them as ignorant. In the pages of Empowering Words of First Nations Women, and in everyday language, Attikamek, Micmac, and Innu women tell their stories. The more they speak and tell their stories, the more they recover their self esteem, which often has been undermined in the course of their interactions with health experts.

At the heart of Empowering Words of First Nations Women is a profound conviction: while symptoms may be relieved and alleviated through medication, it is really by speaking openly in a situation where one is free to act spontaneously that one can best acquire, develop, and exercise power over life and health!

Produced under the auspices of the First Nations of Québec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission,1 Empowering Words of First Nations Women expresses a desire to offer First Nations women a chance to communicate and share their knowledge and expertise. In their communities, these women are known for their ability to adopt winning strategies when it comes to illness and health.

1 With financial support from the Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (CEWH)

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“It is time for women's' voices to be heard because the voice of Aboriginal women is powerful! It transcends the actions of health care systems and goes beyond the scientific knowledge that stems from their conditions of illness. This voice resonates with a profound popular wisdom and deserves the recognition attributed to it in this manual.The words and the power of First Nation women are a living testimony, a tool that is essential for the creation of new care models that will stimulate women's actions in our communities and elsewhere."

- From Bibiane Courtois's preface
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“It is with pride that the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC) has joined with the Laval University Press for the publication of the Empowering Words of First Nations Women. Although this book was conceived and developed mainly from an anthropological perspective, it is mostly coming from First Nations women. Women who, in the course of their daily lives and in the midst of their families and communities, have learned how to develop winning strategies that enabled them to gain access to a better more satisfying state of health.”

- From Garry Carbonnell's preface
Executive Director
First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission


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Biographie :

Bernard Roy

Bernard Roy est professeur à la Faculté des sciences infirmières de l’Université Laval (2004) et titulaire d’un doctorat en anthropologie (2002). C’est dans sa trajectoire d’infirmier en milieu autochtone qu’il s’est initialement intéressé à cette importante manifestation d’iniquité de santé dont étaient et sont toujours victimes les femmes et les hommes des Premières Nations : le diabète. Ses travaux sur cette problématique de santé ont reçu l’appui de Diabète Québec et ont fait l’objet de publications ainsi que de nombreuses conférences. Son ouvrage Sang sucré, pouvoirs codés, médecine amère a mérité, en 2005, la médaille Luc-Lacourcière qui souligne l’excellence d’un ouvrage d’ethnologie publié en langue française en Amérique du Nord. En fait, au cœur du travail de ce professeur-chercheur se trouve le souci de la valorisation de la parole de ces personnes trop souvent laissées pour compte dans un monde où, de plus en plus, les données probantes ont la cote.

Katia Fecteau

Katia Fecteau détient une maîtrise en anthropologie de la santé de l'Université Laval. Ses intérêts professionnels l'ont amenée à s'intéresser à la santé des femmes et des enfants et au développement. Dans son travail auprès des peuples autochtones du Québec et pour des organisations internationales en Équateur et au Népal, elle a mis au point de nombreux outils de promotion de la santé. Elle travaille actuellement en éducation dans le milieu syndical québécois.


Katia Fecteau has a Master's degree in the anthropology of health from Laval University. Her professional interests include women and children's health, and international development. Through her work with Aboriginal communities in Quebec and for international organisations in Ecuador and Nepal, she has developed instruments for promoting health. She now works in education for the union sector in Quebec.


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