Linking land displacement and environmental dispossession to Mi'kmaw health and well-being: Culturally relevant place-based interpretive frameworks matter

Using a “Piktukowaq” (Mi'kmaw) environmental health research framework to guide the interpretation of oral histories coming from the Knowledge Holders in Pictou Landing First Nation, the study convey the deep, health ‐ enhancing relationship with A'se'k that the Piktukowaq enjoyed before it was destroyed by a pulp and paper mill pouring 85 million liters of effluent per day into a lagoon, and the health suppression that has occurred since then. 

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Lewis, Diana; Castleden, Heather; Apostle, Richard; Francis, Sheila; Francis-Strickland, Kim
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Lewis, D., et al. 2020. Linking land displacement and environmental dispossession to Mi'kmaw health and well-being: Culturally relevant place-based interpretive frameworks matter. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12656

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2020
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