The Qasgiq Model As an Indigenous Intervention: Using the Cultural Logic of Context to Build Protective Factors for Alaska Na

Course overview

This Intervention model is based on the fundamental role that culture and Indigenous knowledge plays in community intervention in American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities. The intervention starts by first defining community or complex interventions and then critically examining ways culture is translated into health interventions addressing AIAN disparities in existing programs and research initiatives. By describing an Indigenous intervention based in the cultural logic of its contexts, as developed by Alaska Native communities, the Yup'ik co-authors and knowledge keepers provide critical and theoretical perspectives and understandings to the overall narrative, constructing from their Indigenous knowledge system, an argument that culture is, in itself, prevention.