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An Indigenous Approach to Chronic Disease Education, Prevention, and Management
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We are breaking down stereotypes of urban Indians through culturally attuned stock photography
Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) and TONL—an agency that creates libraries of stock photos showing diverse people and their stories around the world—partnered to create the first ever stock image library of urban American Indians and Alaska Natives called We Exist. This project was designed to show the resilience, strength, and diversity of Native peoples, while bringing attention to the lack of accurate representation in stock imagery of Native peoples in urban settings.
We Exist consists of a variety of photos with families, individuals, elders, youth, and more. This project centered on showing urban American Indian and Alaska Native people and families participating in everyday activities to break down stereotypes that have consumed mainstream media and culture for too long.
These photos can be used for websites, publications, newsletters, blogs, and any number of avenues where you want to show photos of urban Natives and help us break down stereotypes.
Indigenous knowledge, practices, and values are valid and should be prioritized to tell the story in a good way, even if it means going against western approaches and frameworks.
At Urban Indian Health Institute, we are initiating the shift into decolonized data by introducing culturally-rigorous science, reclaiming indigenous values, and using our knowledge to bring health back into the urban Indian population. Don’t come to us because you think we have the most problems; come to us because we have the answers.
Tribal people currently living off federally-defined tribal lands in urban areas.
1. More than surviving, it is thriving, continuing.
2. Evolutionary practice of restoring culture, rebuilding beauty, and breaking down barriers.
1. Reclaiming the indigenous value of data collection, analysis, and research.
2. Data for Native people, by Native people.
3. Recognizes the inherent strength of indigenous people.
Gathering the pieces broken by historical trauma and stitching them back together in bold, beautiful, intricate patterns of strength and resiliency.
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