McKinley Catherine E
Tulane University School of Social Work, 127 Elk Place, New Orleans, LA 70112.
Psycholog Relig Spiritual. 2024 Feb;16(1):114-125. doi: 10.1037/rel0000497. Epub 2023 Mar 9.
Indigenous faith practices have enabled persistence, resistance, and transcendence despite centuries of settler colonial historical oppression. Spirituality, ceremony, and religious practices are fundamental aspects of Indigenous wellness, resilience, and liberation from a colonial mindset. The purpose of this research was understand U.S. Indigenous peoples' perspectives of spirituality and religion from the settler colonial framework of historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT) as it relates to wellness.
Data from critical ethnographic interviews with 31 participants from rural reservation communities in the Southeast and an urban Northwest environment were analyzed using reconstructive thematic qualitative analysis.
Themes include: (a) "You'd be persecuted … for your beliefs": Historical Oppression of Indigenous beliefs; (b) "I was always told that church was wherever you were": Integrative faith practices and (c) "No matter how hard times get … never forget to pray": Prayer through adversity.
Results clarified how settler colonial power differentials tended to relegate Indigenous spiritual and faith practices to a lower status than Western European religions, namely Christianity. Participants resisted this oppression by ingeniously integrating tribal and Western European faith practices to promote wellness. This article provides pathways to prevent clinical bias and harm by expanding awareness and familiarity with localized and heterogenous faith practices among Indigenous communities. Practitioners can honor Indigenous peoples' preferences, acknowledge Indigenous faith practices as central for wellness, and become reflexive about how an internalized settler colonial mindset may cause bias and perpetuate historical oppression by delegitimizing Indigenous worldviews and faith practices.
尽管经历了数个世纪的殖民定居者历史压迫，本土信仰实践依然实现了延续、抵抗和超越。灵性、仪式和宗教实践是本土健康、恢复力以及从殖民心态中解放出来的基本要素。本研究的目的是从历史压迫、恢复力和超越（FHORT）的殖民定居者框架出发，理解美国本土人民对灵性和宗教与健康相关的看法。
对来自东南部农村保留地社区和西北城市环境的31名参与者进行的批判性民族志访谈数据，采用重建性主题定性分析进行分析。
主题包括：（a）“你会因你的信仰而受到迫害……”：对本土信仰的历史压迫；（b）“我一直被告知，教堂就在你所在的任何地方”：融合性信仰实践；以及（c）“无论困难时期多么艰难……永远不要忘记祈祷”：逆境中的祈祷。
研究结果阐明了殖民定居者的权力差异如何倾向于将本土的灵性和信仰实践置于比西欧宗教（即基督教）更低的地位。参与者通过巧妙地融合部落和西欧的信仰实践来促进健康，从而抵制这种压迫。本文通过扩大对本土社区中本地化和异质性信仰实践的认识与熟悉程度，提供了预防临床偏见和伤害的途径。从业者可以尊重本土人民的偏好，承认本土信仰实践对健康的核心作用，并反思内化的殖民定居者心态如何可能通过使本土世界观和信仰实践失去合法性而导致偏见并延续历史压迫。
