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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).
Decolonizing Research
Chapter in Women's Health in Canada : Challenges of Intersectionality, 2nd Edition. To view chapter scroll down to page 165.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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)
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
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.
Police-Community Communication and Liaison
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
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples: Presentation by Marlene Villebrun, Canadian Mental Health Association
Villebrun discusses discrimination and low self-esteem issues; alcohol and drug abuse; the need to make Aboriginal history mandatory and a priority in Canadian schools; the intergenerational effects of cultural deprivation; and the need to better equip youth for "living in two cultures."
"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.
Taking Action against Substance Abuse
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).
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.