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AIDS: The New Smallpox among Native Americans

Alternate Title
AIDS: The New Smallpox Among Native Americans
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Irene S. Vernon
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 235-249
Description
Advocates the prevention of AIDS and argues that it is becoming a pandemic in Native communities.
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Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

Alternate Title
Averting Disaster: The Hudson's Bay Company and Smallpox in Western Canada During the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 78, no. 3, 2004, pp. 575-609
Description
Argues that Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) served as a de facto public health agency and by the late 1830s provided an effective vaccination campaign covering most of western Canada.
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The Biological Encounter: Disease and the Ideological Domain

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William A. Starna
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Shamans and Preachers, Color Symbolism and Commercial Evangelism: Reflections on Early Mid-Atlantic , Autumn, 1992, pp. 511-519
Description
Author discusses Indigenous medical practices; lists some maladies that were effectively treated using Indigenous medicine and notes those diseases brought from Europe for which Indigenous peoples had no treatment.
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British Columbia First Nations and Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary-Ellen Kelm
BC Studies, no. 122, Summer, 1999, pp. 23-[48?]
Description
Explores reasons why the epidemic figures prominently in First Nations' histories; includes oral remembrances of the devastation the disease brought to First Nations communities.
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Building the System: Churches, Missionary Organizations, the Federal State, and Health Care in Southern Alberta Treaty 7 Communities, 1890-1930

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kristin Burnett
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 41, no. 3, Fall, 2007, pp. 18-41
Description
Looks at the evolution of institutional structures of western health care in First Nations communities in southern Alberta and the women who were central in the creation and operation of these facilities.
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COVID-19 and the Decolonization of Indigenous Public Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Richardson
Allison Crawford
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 192, no. 38, September 21, 2020, pp. E1098-E1100
Description
Commentary piece which examines the effects that discriminatory healthcare practices have on Indigenous peoples, healthcare outcomes, and social determinants of health. Notes the successes of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities during the current pandemic and the need for Public Health Care that continues to support the self-determination of Indigenous communities.
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Dene and Western Medicine Meet in Image-based Storytelling

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alison Crawford
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 190, no. 36, September 10, 2018, pp. E1085-E1086
Description
This personal essay describes the author’s experience and learning which resulted from co-teaching about narrative medicine with a Dene colleague. Discusses issues of consent, colonialism and Indigenous world-views.
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From Past to Present: Understanding First Nations Health Patterns in a Historical Context

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Hackett
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, no. Supplement 1, Aboriginal Health Research and Policy: First Nations-University Collaboration in Manitoba, January/February 2005, pp. S17-S21
Description
Explores the value of historical methods in studying the health of First Nation's communities in Manitoba.
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I Breath for Them

Alternate Title
All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, Lecture 4
[2018 CBC Massey Lectures]
[Ideas with Paul Kennedy]
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Tanya Talaga
Description
Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the fourth of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Saskatoon. In this lecture Talaga links the similarities between contemporary nations with a history of colonization and describes some of the effects for Indigenous peoples and communities. In this Lecture Talaga focuses specifically on healthcare and the disparity in the quality of care available to Indigenous peoples. Duration: 53:59
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In Search of the Truth: Uncovering Nursing’s Involvement in Colonial Harms and Assimilative Policies Five Years Post Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paisly Michele Symenuk
Dawn Tisdale
Danielle H. Bourque Bearskin
Tessa Munro
Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, vol. 2, no. 1, Special Issue: Nīpawīstimatowin -“bearing witness for one another”, 2020, pp. 84-96
Description
A discussion of lack of results in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action to assess the profession's complicity in colonization practices and its impact on Indigenous women, followed by exploration of two potential barriers to the work.
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Ngā Tāpiritanga: In What Ways Are Indigenous Māori Perspectives on Attachment Similar to and Different From Western Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Attachment and What Are the Implications for the Practice of Psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand? A Kaupapa Māori Critical Literature Review

Alternate Title
Nga Tapiritanga: In What Ways Are Indigenous Maori Perspectives on Attachment Similar to and Different From Western Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Attachment and What Are the Implications for the Practice of Psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand? A Kaupa
Theses
Author/Creator
Anna Hinehou Flemming
Description
Psychology Thesis (M.Psych.)--Auckland University of Technology, 2016.
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Paddling Together for Culturally Safe Emergency Care for Elders

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Leena Hasan
Janice Johnson
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 16, no. 1, Honouring the Sacred Fire: Ending Systemic Racism toward Indigenous Peoples, 2021, pp. 146-164
Description

Addresses the reluctance of Nuu-chah-nulth elders to seek health care through a two day workshop between the Nuu-chah-nulth people and BC health care providers to brainstorm recommendations to improve emergency care. 

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Pekiwewin (coming home): Advancing Good Relations with Indigenous People Experiencing Homelessness

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jesse Thistle
Janet Smylie
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 192, no. 10, March 9, 2020, pp. E257-E259
Description
Authors note the large percentage of people experiencing homelessness who are also Indigenous and reframe homelessness as a result of intersectional oppressions, including colonial policies and impacts. Article outlines an anti-oppressive and culturally relevant framework for working with Indigenous people experiencing homelessness.
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Race, Culture, and the Colonization of Childbirth in Northern Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patricia Jasen
Social History of Medicine, vol. 10, no. 3, 1997, pp. 383-400
Description
Discusses European attitudes towards Aboriginal women and the act of giving birth, which had little factual foundation and little understanding of the role of the midwife.
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Role of the Nurse in Returning Birth to the North

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy Wright
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-7
Description
Looks at the colonization of Indigenous childbirth and the possible strategies to address the impact of that particular historical trauma.
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“Years ago”: Reconciliation and First Nations Narratives of Tuberculosis in the Canadian Prairie Provinces

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sara Komarnisky
Paul Hackett
Sylvia Abonyi
Courtney Heffernan
Richard Long.
Critical Public Health, vol. 26, no. 4, 2016, pp. 381-393
Description
Using personal interviews to examine the historical treatment of tuberculosis and how it impacts contemporary treatment and experiences for Indigenous populations.
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