Indigenous People and Minority Communities

International News

Empowering Voices: Advocating for indigenous people with disabilities worldwide, a submission to the UN. Focused on case studies from Kenya, Brazil, Nepal and Bangladesh:

“Persons with disabilities within indigenous communities experience disproportionate disadvantages because of the intersectional discrimination they face on account of multiple axes of oppression. Many disability activists from indigenous communities stress the importance of analyzing the historical context and its ongoing impacts, specifically slavery and colonialism. Within indigenous communities, disability cannot be extricated and analyzed outside the context of psychosocial disabilities and intergenerational trauma caused by colonial violence and oppression.” (Feb, Minority Rights Group)

Intersectionality is a Practice: Inclusive Funding Must Resource Disability and Indigenous Rights. (2022, Cultural Survival)

Indigeneity and disability: A special edition from Disability Studies Quarterly on Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-Making. (2022)

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Gender-based violence against women and girls with disabilities in Latin America. (In Spanish, 2023, Capacitismes)

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Kenya

Eviction, flooding and disability in Baringo County (2023, Minority and Indigenous Trends 2023)

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India

Mental justice: Addressing the mental health of de-notified tribes. (2023, IDR)

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Nepal

Profile of Pratima Gurung “Gurung shares her love for books growing up, the exclusion of marginalised and indigenous narratives in the curriculum, and the rights of indigenous and disabled communities.” (May, Kathmandu Post)

Intersectionality, Indigeneity, and Disability Climate Justice an article exploring evidence and policy frameworks. (Feb, Bill of Health)

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Europe

Social exclusion of Roma with Disabilities. A briefing note. (2022, EDF)

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Canada

Teachings tell us of the importance of uniqueness. The Anishinaabe story about Wenabozho losing his eyeballs. (2023, Winnipeg Free Press)

Healthcare inclusion and Indigenous people (2023, Abilities Canada)

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United States

Indigeneity and Disability: The Teachings of our Ancestors. “In my Indigenous community, Diné (Navajo) ancestral teachings of disability are a relational concept that embodies a sophisticated value system of care” (2023, Disability Visibility Project)

Understanding Disabilities in American Indian & Alaska Native Communities, a toolkit to increase awareness and knowledge. (2023, NICOA)

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Australia

Indigenous people with disabilities face racism and ableism. ‘I coined the term “racial-ableism” to capture the intersectionality of these experiences at the cultural interface.’ (2022, the Conversation)

The I Am, Movement designs 'culturally safe' education resources for Indigenous children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. (2022, ABC News)

From employment barriers to food insecurity, the challenges of the pandemic have only intensified for First Nations Australians with disabilities (2022, Minority Rights Group International)

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New Zealand

Concerns raised over Māori and Pasifika disability support in restructure of Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People:

“We don’t know if the Māori voice around disabilities will continue, because we’re not sitting at decision-making tables, and that’s where we all need to be.” (Aug, Te Ao Māori News)

Risk: A visual poem by Ruby Solly exploring the intricacies of indigenous, disabled pride. (Feb, The D*List)

Exploring te ao Māori and te reo Māori whakaaro from one Pākehā blind person. (2023, Blind Citizens NZ)

Cha'nel Kaa-Luke and her dreams for indigenous Deaf communities: research on indigenous Deaf people should show "how to better engage with our communities on terms that suit us". (2023, D*List)

‘I’m Māori first’: The vision-impaired community finding strength in whakapapa (2022, The Spinoff)

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