Okanagan Urban Aboriginal Health Research Collective
Authors:
Okanagan Urban Aboriginal Health Research Collective
Michael Evans
Date:
2009
ISBN: 978-0-9865387-2-8
Abstract:
Given the way that Urban Aboriginal people are often excluded from large scale quantitative studies of health and social services, project researchers have undertaken a qualitative study that provides for extensive discussions with Urban Aboriginal people about their experiences in the health and social service system. There are three components to the research: interviews with Aboriginal service users (between Summer 2006 and Fall 2007); interviews with Aboriginal service providers (between Fall 2007 and Spring 2008); and a focus group using techniques developed from traditional Okanagan Nation research methods (called Enowkinwixw) in Spring of 2007.
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Michael Evans is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. Dr. Evans has been involved in several community based research initiatives, and in particular has a long-term relationship with the Prince George Métis Elders Society. He has also worked extensively with colleagues at the Métis Nation of British Columbia on a number of research projects dealing with historic and contemporary Métis communities in BC, some of which are discussed in this volume. Together with Elders and community leaders in Prince George he put together a Métis Studies curriculum for UNBC and a number of publications including What it is to be a Métis (Evans et al 1999, 2007), A Brief History, of the Short Life, of the Island Cache (Evans et al 2004). He has also worked on a number of participatory video projects with collaborators from the Métis community and videographer and new media artist Stephen Foster. He is also involved in a number of active research projects concerned with Cultural Safety and Aboriginal health, especially in the Urban Aboriginal and Métis communities in Canada.
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