Datta Ranjan, Chapola Jebunnessa, Datta Prarthona, Datta Prokriti
Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS), University of Regina, Regina, Canada.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2025 May 30. doi: 10.1007/s40615-025-02499-2.
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented various health challenges to those who are at risk all over the world. In Canada, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities became at serious risk because of systematic structural challenges, including limited access to healthcare, occupational risks, racial discrimination, living conditions, and language and cultural challenges. It was difficult to overcome these challenges without structural support from governments, NGOs, and local communities. As social interaction was minimal and not at all, many BIPOC communities faced extra burdens as many needed support in a new country. Indigenous Land-based activities have different forms, including learning land-based stories from Indigenous Elders, Indigenous Elder-led land-walks, intergenerational story sharing, community gardening, music, dance, and artworks. All these Land-based activities encompass various aspects of health, including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health that helped communities cope with the challenges brought about by the pandemic. This study suggests that Land-based activities created health well-being resiliency for many Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, particularly immigrant communities who strongly connect with the land and Land-based practice by reaffirming our self-determination and sovereignty. Following a relational research framework, this study explores how learning and practicing Indigenous land-based practices were critical in building resilience for many racialized immigrant families during the pandemic.
新冠疫情给全球各地的高危人群带来了各种健康挑战。在加拿大，黑人、原住民及有色人种（BIPOC）社区由于系统性的结构挑战而面临严重风险，这些挑战包括获得医疗保健的机会有限、职业风险、种族歧视、生活条件以及语言和文化方面的挑战。如果没有政府、非政府组织和当地社区的结构性支持，就很难克服这些挑战。由于社交互动极少甚至完全没有，许多BIPOC社区面临着额外的负担，因为许多人在一个新国家需要支持。基于土地的原住民活动有不同形式，包括向原住民长者学习基于土地的故事、由原住民长者带领的陆地漫步、代际故事分享、社区园艺、音乐、舞蹈和艺术作品。所有这些基于土地的活动涵盖了健康的各个方面，包括身体、心理、情感和精神健康，这些有助于社区应对疫情带来的挑战。这项研究表明，基于土地的活动为许多原住民和非原住民，特别是那些通过重申我们的自决权和主权与土地及基于土地的实践紧密相连的移民社区，创造了健康福祉的复原力。遵循关系研究框架，本研究探讨了学习和实践基于土地的原住民实践在疫情期间为许多种族化移民家庭建立复原力方面如何至关重要。
