Indigenous Nurses’ Worldviews and the Contested Space of Climate Discourse

Authors:
Open Access
Publisher website
Google Scholar
Abstract
In this paper, we present three Indigenous worldviews, anchored to the epistemology and ontology of each author in discussing climate impact on Indigenous people. Each worldview speaks to our unique and individual Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. We then extended the Indigenous worldviews by discussing the climate crisis and its impact on Indigenous peoples, the voices of Indigenous nurses in the climate space, and further outline how we believe that climate change impact is a colonizing force which is structurally racist. We then provide some potential ways forward. We argue that being a climate activist involves being an advocate for Indigenous justice and a disruptor of Western paradigms of economy, ownership, and capitalism.

This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit: