Elephants in the settler medical room: A. Jensen, V. A. Lopez-Carmen, ‘The “Elephants in the Room” in U.S. global health: Indigenous nations and white settler colonialism’, PLOS Glob Public Health, 2, 7, 2022 | settler colonial studies blog

Elephants in the settler medical room: A. Jensen, V. A. Lopez-Carmen, ‘The “Elephants in the Room” in U.S. global health: Indigenous nations and white settler colonialism’, PLOS Glob Public Health, 2, 7, 2022

09Jul22

Excerpt: When most U.S physicians consider the term “global health” or even the term “decolonizing global health,” they think of low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) outside their borders, usually in the global south. While countries outside U.S. borders should absolutely be included, rarely are the over 567 Indigenous Nations within U.S. borders considered, each with their own cultures, languages, spiritualities, and political systems predating colonization by thousands of years. In the field of U.S. global health and the decolonizing global health movement, Indigenous Nations and settler colonialism in the U.S. remain the elephants in the room.

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