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BC First Peoples 12: Teacher Resource Guide
Calls to Action: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Rights for Supportive Decision-Making in Healthcare
Examines what is needed to improve equitable health care for Indigenous populations in urban settings.
Clean Water for First Nations: Is the Government Spending Enough?
Report provides updated estimate of costs associated with providing public water and wastewater systems using data and expenditure recommendations from the 2011 National Assessment of First Nations Water and Wastewater Systems; period of analysis covered is 2016-2017 to 2025-2026.
Community Journey of Change Through Relational Determinants of Health
Discusses ways to both address colonization and create a culturally relevant means to improve Indigenous health.
Community-led Recovery from the Opioid Crisis through Culturally-based Programs and Community-based Data Governance
Examines the community-based opioid agonist treatment (OAT) program Naandwe Miikan (The Health Path).
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Invoking the Famine and Pestilence Clause to be Paired with the Medicine Chest Clause from the Numbered Treaties
Examines the use of treaty-based strategies to address the inequalities faced by Indigenous communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Decolonizing Research
Chapter in Women's Health in Canada : Challenges of Intersectionality, 2nd Edition. To view chapter scroll down to page 165.
Detailed Results: Canadians React to the Discovery of Remains at Residential Schools
Results of a survey conducted with 3,00 Canadian adults between June 4 and June 8, 2021.
Educating Medical Students’ “Hearts and Minds”: A Humanities-Informed Cultural Immersion Program in Indigenous Experiential Community Learning
Examines the First Nations Community Education Program as a collaborative effort to address Indigenous health inequalities in Canada.
Effectiveness of Interventions for the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Among First Nations, Métis and Inuit Populations
Scan of published literature with a focus on cultural and need-based interventions.
Entsisewata’karí:teke (You Will Be Healthy Again): Clinical Outcomes of Returning to a Traditional Haudenosaunee Diet
Looks at the results of a 90-day dietary challenge, consisting of pre-contact food, by members of the Six Nations of the Grand River.
An Exploration into Indigenous Autism
Brief discussion of the lack of information on autism in the Indigenous population.
An Exploratory Study on How Structural Racism Influences Chronic Disease and Health and Wellness of First Nations in Canada
Health Sciences Thesis (PhD) -- Simon Fraser University, 2022.
First Nations Health and Wellness Colouring Book
Forced or Coerced Sterilization in Canada: An Overview of Recommendations for Moving Forward
Looks at the underlining causes of and recommendations to address the forced or coerced sterilization of Indigenous women in Canada.
Gum yan asing Kaangas giidaay han hll guudang gas ga. I Will Never Again Feel That I Am Less Than: Indigenous Health Care Providers’ Perspectives on Ending Racism in Health Care
Using personal experiences to address colonialism and the systematic racism within the Canadian health care system.
The Health Impacts of Social Distancing among Indigenous People in Ontario During the First Wave of COVID-19: The Health Impacts of Social Distancing
Examines how culture helped shape the experiences of Indigenous populations during the COVID pandemic.
Housing Needs and Challenges for Rural and Urban (Off-Reserve) Indigenous Peoples
Utilizes data from the Census of Population, Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and the Aboriginal Peoples Survey.
"I Used to be Scared to Even Like Stand Beside Somebody Who Had It": HIV Risk Behaviours and Perceptions among Indigenous People Who Use Drugs
Looks at the lack of education provided for Indigenous people living HIV and how that limits their access to proper supports and testing.
Indigenous Community Praxis and Programs during COVID-19: Medicine Keeper Wellness & Creative Corner Programs
Examines the response to the COVID pandemic by Canadian Indigenous communities as an example of their continued resilience.
Indigenous End-of-Life Doula Course: Bringing the Culture Home
Examines a doula training course that teaches palliative care specifically for Indigenous seniors.
Indigenous Strength: Braiding Culture, Ceremony and Community as a Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Examines the changes to the delivery of Indigenous land based services to urban Indigenous communities during the COVID pandemic.
Indigenous Trauma Intervention Research in Canada: A Narrative Literature Review
Examines the results of 11 studies on health care institutions that used culturally appropriate interventions when dealing with Indigenous patients.
Indigenous Women’s Stress and Postpartum Depression: Discussions from the Canadian Maternity Experiences Survey and Indigenous Maternity Narratives
Examines maternal and child health from an Indigenous perspectives.
isihcikêwinihk kâkî nâtawihon: Healing through Ceremony
An audio-visual learning tool about the use of Indigenous knowledge and customs by social workers as a means of healing for Indigenous populations.
Link included to the accompanying video on Youtube. (23:32)
It’s a Journey Not a Check Box: Indigenous Cultural Safety From Training to Transformation
Discusses educational and training approaches being employed to address racism experienced by Indigenous people seeking health care.
Land-based Healing Through Adventure: Wise Practices from Indigenous Peoples
Examines the combining of adventure, culture and, land as tools for healing Indigenous trauma across the world.
"Learning from “Our Relations” Indigenous Peoples of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and United States: A Review of Culturally Relevant Diabetes and Obesity Interventions for Health
Reviews the use of traditional health interventions amongst Indigenous populations.
Lesson Plan: Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger
Literature Review for the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples: Off-Reserve Indigenous Housing Needs and Challenges in Canada
Review conducted to "identify the relationships, correlations, and possible causations between housing and four socio-economic outcomes: education, health, the labour market, and Indigenous languages."
Making a Whole Person: Traditional Inuit Education: Teaching Guide
Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future
Mental Health Interventions for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples in Canada: A Systematic Review
An overview of 14 studies analyzing anxiety, depression and attempted suicide amongst the Indigenous Canadian populations and the use of culture as a treatment method.
Métis Identity And Acculturation: A group Therapy Guide for Disconnected Métis Adults
Education Thesis (MEd) -- University of Northern British Columbia, 2022.
Misconduct, Missing, and Murdered: The Experiences of Anti-Indigenous Racism in Reproductive Healthcare among Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Diverse People, and the MMIWG2S+ Genocide
Five cases studies involving sexual health, pregnancy and after-birth care to illustrate the connections between MMIWG2S+ and systemic racism in the healthcare system.
A Nutrient Analysis of Traditional Anishinaabe Recipes and the Role of Folic Acid in the Regulation of Anti-Diabetic GLP-1
Biology Thesis (MSc) -- Laurentian University, 2022.
Promoting Healthy Medication Use Through Indigenous Knowledge Sharing: A Coyote Story
Looks at the creation of a traditional Coyote story as a strategy to address Polypharmacy, "when multiple medications are being taken and the benefits no longer outweigh the risks", for Indigenous patients.
Putting Indigenous Harm Reduction to Work: Developing and Evaluating “Not Just Naloxone”
Evaluates the use of more traditional holistic culturally sensitive approaches to address harm reduction for Indigenous people and communities.
Remembering the Children Educator's Guide 2022
Topics include: teacher reflections, preparing for difficult conversations, the role of media coverage, daily life in residential schools, reconciliation through revitalization, and making reconciliation real.
For use with Remembering the Children: Truth and Reconciliation Week 2022
Respecting Tobacco: Traditional vs. Commercial Use
Educational animated short (8:26 min.).
The Right Space: The Impact of Meaningful Dialogue in Informing Culturally Safe Care in the Emergency Department in a Rural Northern Community
Looks at a project that interweaves Indigenous and Western point-of-views to improve emergency care for northern communities.
"A serious rift": The Indigenous Health Research Community's Refusal of the 2014 CIHR Funding Reforms and Underlying Methodological Conservatism
Reviews reforms made by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to their Open Suite of Programs and Peer Review (OSP) processes and its impact on Indigenous health research.
Teaching Indigenous Health Within an Anti-Racist, Anti-Colonial Pedagogical Framework
Health Sciences Thesis (PhD) -- University of Manitoba, 2022.
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
Two-Spirits’ Response to COVID-19: Survey Findings in Atlantic Canada Identify Priorities and Developing Practices
Discusses the impact of the COVID pandemic on the two-spirit Indigenous populations in Atlantic Canada and how the response of the Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance (W2SA).
The Violence of Colonization and the Importance of Decolonizing Therapeutic Relationship: The Role of Helper in Centring Indigenous Wisdom
Looks at the impact of decolonization within the mental health community amongst Canadian Indigenous populations.
Walking on Our Lands Again: Turning to Culturally Important Plants and Indigenous Conceptualizations of Health in a Time of Cultural and Political Resurgence
Examines the role of ethnobotany in decolonization.
Where Are the Children Buried?
General overview of historical context along with examples of specific schools for illustrative purposes and 'gap analysis' to recommend areas where further research is required. Second part of report is a more detailed summary of information on each school’s location and construction sequence, duration of operation, and reported cemeteries.
Wiingushk Okaadenige (Sweetgrass Braid): A Braided Approach to Indigenous Youth Mental Health Support during COVID-19
Discusses a braid approach intervention, a combination of different Indigenous practices, as ways to address the needs of Indigenous youth suffering from mental health issues.