Main description:

A journey of new routes of healing with/by Indigenous and non-Indigenous participants is shared under the Two Eyed-Seeing Perspective of Elder Albert Marshall. The Universal Human Right of Indigenous self-determination and Relationality are the togetherness presented in a "mangrove tree" that lives between salty and sweet waters emerging as a protective place of rich ecosystems. The relatuhedron (shapes of relationality) a co-construction of a home, a Wigwam, Long House, Maloca, Ue, crystalizes knowledge and practices in the process of individual and community healing and cultural transactions. A set of neologisms such as relatuhedron, pedagomiologies, and social grammars, is proposed to challenge our views of mental health, healing, cultural transactions, stereotypes, recovery, and public policy and include simplicities and complexities required to support Indigenous well-being. It is a "machine of possibilities" for students and professionals working with/by and for Indigenous communities. In this book healing is presented as a process through scholarly practice and reflection. Healing is a process of emergence of meaning by improving relationality with the self, nature and others, in a practical approach to socio-cultural transformations. In sum, healing is based on individual and community processes both honoring and respective Indigenous knowledge and scientific research to create endless opportunities for well-being. This book presents healing as a process of growth, a complex, dynamic and evolutive journey of transforming how we stablish and maintain relationships with the self, nature and others inside of our cultural negotiations.

Contents:

Part I. The Relatuhedron: shaping and shapes of relationships

1. The Harm Caused to Indigenous People

2. The journey on Indigenous health research

3. Two Eyed Seeing and Multiperspectives of knowledge

4. De-colonialism and Indigeneity

5. Preliminary Movements

6. Complex and simplex

7. The relatuhedron as a knowledge tool

8. Health Research and Indigenous Community Knowledge

9. Health Epistemology(ies) and Social Knowledge(s)

10. Hard Science and Soft Science

11. University health education

12. The Mining of Knowledge Shared

13. Data Knowledge and Indigenous Epistemologies

14. Power and Knowledge discursive formation

15. Relatuhedron and Social Grammars

16. What difference does this knowledge make?

Part II. Development

17. Indigenous Ethics of Shared

Knowledge

18. The macro perspective

19. A shared journey of knowledge

20. The experience of questioning as a way for learning

Part III. Knowing-Doing of Pedagomiologies

21. Multiple Ways of Gaining and Sharing Knowledge

22. Unfolding the Richness of Indigenous Knowledge

Part IV. Relatuhedron: What is Different?

23. Multiple perspectives of Relatuhedron

24. Location of new epistemology on health knowledge

Part V. Conclusion of Art-In-Progress

25. Towards a Po-ethics of concepts

26. References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C