Goal: To promote indigenous cultural strengths in research and health workforce development.

Objectives:

1. Identify and establish indigenous principles and protocols as practice-based evidence to eliminate health disparities
2. Build, enhance, and sustain indigenous research capacity and an indigenous health workforce
3. Challenge researchers, students, and communities to implement concepts of cultural safety in scientific investigation and health care practices

See Draft Agenda for details.

The registration fees will be:
Elders (person is to decide if they meet criteria of being an elder based on their own community): no fee;
Students: $25 Early Bird; $50 after April 1;
Professionals: $75 Early Bird; $100 after April 1.

Deadline for application: May 15, 2011 (closed)

2011 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

2011 NRN Award Nominations (nominees must be NRN members)

Vendor Table Application Form

Exhibitor Table Application Form

Additional Vendor and Exhibitor Information

Buffalo Niagara International Airport

Niagara Falls Conference Center (a smoke-free facility)

Lodging options are:

Seneca Niagara Casino and Hotel RESERVATIONS: All reservations must be made by May 27, 2011 to insure guest room availability as outlined above. Guests can call the toll-free reservation line at 1-877-873-6322. $100 per night. CHECK-IN TIME: 4:00PM; while every effort is make to accommodate Guests arriving before the check-in time, rooms may Not be available. CHECK-OUT TIME: 11:00 AM; requests to retain rooms beyond that hour Should be directed to the Front Office Manager the morning of departure. CUT OFF TIME: Last Date Reservations Accepted is May 27, 2011 *Seneca Niagara Hotel & Resort is a smoking permitted establishment but offers smoke-free hotel rooms.
Or
Sheraton At The Falls, Niagara Falls, NY Reservations can be made at 716-285-3361. Guests will need to refer to “Native Research Network”. $100 + 13% state and local taxes per night. *Sheraton At The Falls is a smoke-free facility.
Or
Quality Hotels & Suites, Niagara Falls, NY Arrival date for NRN room rates: Sunday, June 26, 2011 Departure Date for NRN room rates: Thursday, June 30, 2011 Last day to make reservations at NRN Conference rate: Friday, June 24th, 2011 Please call (716-282-1212) and reference: Native Research Network to get rate. Room Rates: $88.20 (singles & doubles) with tax, $99.66. Quality Hotel & Suites is located across the road from the Niagara Falls Conference Center

Mentoring Opportunity

Save the Date poster

Local attractions: Seneca Niagara Casino , official Niagara visitor tour guide , Maid of the Mist boat tours , Niagara Falls State Park , Rainbow Air helicopter tours , Snow Park Niagara , Whirlpool jet boat tours , Skylon Tower, Canada

Niagara, NY weather page

Guided Tours: Bedore Tours , Blue Water Tours , Encounter Niagara Tours , Niagara Majestic Tours

Airport Shuttles: Niagara Majestic , ITA Shuttle 1-800-551-9369

Car rentals: Budget , Enterprise , Hertz

Taxi services: A1 Taxi , AAA Taxi

Wheelchair Rentals: (716) 433-2222

Border Crossing Information: Getyouhome.gov , Customs , US State Dept , Homeland Security

Indian Health Service
National Cancer Institute
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Office on Women’s Health/ DHHS
National Institute on Drug Abuse
University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center - Center for Native American Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- New Connections Program
Seneca Gaming Corporation
Seneca Nation of Indians Recreation Department
Seneca Nation of Indians President's Office
Seneca Nation of Indians Treasurer's Office
Seneca Nation of Indians Councilor's Office
Tuscarora Nation Box Lacrosse - Arena
SUNY: Western Consortium
Seneca Diabetes Foundation
Spirit of Eagles American Indian/Alaska Native Leadership Initiative on Cancer, MAYO Clinic

Peace, Good Mind, and Strength are Haudenosaunee principles that exemplify the conference theme. Haudenosaunee refers to the People of the Longhouse and includes the Indigenous Nations of the Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Tuscarora. Peace is founded on unity and is the foundation for achieving good health and a sense of self in context to the well-being of all others in the clan, community, and nation. The state of Peace leads to the Good Mind. In a good mind thoughts are focused on the good for all, i.e., social justice. Strength comes from the good mind and promotes action that brings about and sustains justice and unity, in which state health can flourish. However, all indigenous peoples have their own sets of beliefs that can be woven throughout research and serve as metaphors for the development of our scientific processes and healing practices. These cultural foundational principles have broad application to research and the value system of a health workforce.

Cultural safety is a concept first developed in the 1980s by Maori nurses and is defined as “the effective nursing of a person/family from another culture by a nurse who has undertaken a process of reflection on own cultural identity and recognizes the impact of the nurse’s culture on his or her own nursing practice” (p. 339, Wepa, Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Vol. 14 No. 4, October 2003 339-348). In contrast, unsafe cultural practice is any action that diminishes, demeans, or disempowers the cultural identity and well-being of an individual (Te Kaunihera Tapuhi o Aotearoa/The Nursing Council of New Zealand, 1992b, p. 1). The concept has since been adopted by indigenous groups internationally. Our (the Regional Planning Committee) intent is to promote the concept of cultural safety in indigenous health research. We believe that cultural safety is a term intuitively understood across indigenous groups and is already being applied in research and research orientations (e.g., tribally-driven participatory research). Therefore, we anticipate a natural uptake in the use of the concept by indigenous conference participants, e.g., speakers, audience, poster/oral presentations.