The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a worldwide shift in daily life However, Indigenous people have a long history relating to introduced pandemics Responding to these different forms of destruction, Indigenous people have generated multiple ways to draw on their own ancestral systems This report provides a short history of those pandemics, the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which Indigenous people have responded by drawing on their ancestral Land and practices, and through the guidance and knowledge of Elders
Indigenous ancestral lands and Elders epistemologies in a time of pandemic