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Indigenous Health & Healing Perspectives

Aboriginal Holistic Health and Wellness
Online Video Source: Alberta Health Services
Medicine Wheel
Article Source: Langevin, C. (2011). Medicine Wheel. True Blue Spirit, 4(1), 24–27.

Wisdom Engaged: Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being by Leslie Main Johnson
Publication Date: 2019
eBook
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America by Nancy J. Turner
Publication Date: 2014
eBook
Medicine Wheel Teachings by Frank Surprenant, Angela Brady
Call Number: IAHS STACKS E98 .R3 S87 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Honoring the Medicine: The Essential Guide to Native American Healing by Kenneth Cohen
Call Number: IAHS STACKS E98.M4 .C64 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans by Clifford E. Trafzer; Diane Weiner
Call Number: IAHS STACKS E98.M4 .M43 2001
Publication Date: 2001
The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being by Nancy Van Styvendale
Publication Date: 2021
eBook
A Handbook of Native American Herbs by Alma R. Hutchens
Call Number: IAHS & Fennell STACKS E98.B7 .H87 1992
Publication Date: 1992
Big Medicine from Six Nations by Ted C. Williams; Debra Roberts
Publication Date: 2007
eBook
Big Medicine from Six Nations is a series of reminiscences and essays by the late Ted Williams, on the themes of "Medicine" (physical/spiritual/psychic healing). It offers a fascinating view, not only of herbal medicine, but of prayers, omens, feasts, vision quests, sweat lodges, spirits, humor, and the sacred teachings of the Great Law of the Great Peace.
Under the Rattlesnake: Cherokee Health and Resiliency by Lisa J. Lefler
Publication Date: 2009
eBook
A Fire Burns Within: Teachings from Ceremony and Culture by Sharon L. Acoose
Call Number: Fennell STACKS E99.C6 .A26 2016
Publication Date: 2016

#Beyond94 – From Residential School to One of Manitoba's First Indigenous Nurses
Video - CBC News
How Indigenous Midwives Are Bringing Birthing Back Home
Source: Chatelaine -Feb 26, 2019
Canadian Indigenous Nursing Association

Strong Helpers' Teachings by Cyndy Baskin
Publication Date: 2022 Third Edition
eBook
Decolonizing Data: Unsettling Conversations About Social Research Methods by Jacqueline M. Quinless
Call Number: IAHS STACKS H62.5.C3 .Q56 2022
Publication Date: 2022
A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle by Russell Willier; David Young; Robert Rogers
Call Number: IAHS STACKS E99.C88 .Y68 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Leveraging Culture to Address Health Inequalities: Examples From Native Communities
Publication Date: 2013
eBook

New health centre opens in Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation
Source: Government of Canada - April 17, 2019
Aboriginal Health Access Centres
How aboriginal communities can get primary health care, traditional healing and other services through Aboriginal Health Access Centres.

In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott
Publication Date: 2019
eBook
Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing by Suzanne Methot
Publication Date: 2019
eBook
The Hollow Tree: Fighting Addiction with Traditional Native Healing by Herb Nabigon
Publication Date: 2006
eBook
Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing my People (and yours) by Harold Johnson
Publication Date: 2016
eBook
Print Copies: Fennell and IAHS STACKS E78.C2 .J64 2016
Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine by Kim Anderson
Publication Date: 2011
eBook

Canadian Health Care Services

First Peoples, second class treatment: The role of racism in the health and well-being of Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Source: The Wellesley Institute
Moving toward holistic wellness, empowerment and self-determination for Indigenous peoples in Canada
This study aimed to understand the role that traditional Indigenous health care practices can play in increasing individual-level self-determination over health care and improving health outcomes for urban Indigenous peoples in Canada

An Introduction to Indigenous Health and Healthcare in Canada: Bridging Health and Healing by Vasiliki Douglas
Call Number: IAHS STACKS RA395 .C2 D68 2022
Publication Date: 2022 Second Edition
Access, Clocks, Blocks and Stocks: Resisting Health Canada’s Management of Traditional Medicine by Michael Hankard
Call Number: IAHS STACKS E98.M4 .H36 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Health and Health Care Delivery in Canada by Valerie D. Thompson
Call Number: Fennell Reserves RA449 .T46 2024
Publication Date: 2024 Fourth Edition
Matters of life and death by André Picard
Call Number: IAHS STACKS RA449 .P53 2017
Publication Date: 2017

Indigenous Health
Source: Health Canada
Canadian Nurses Association (CNO) - Indigenous Health
Source: Canadian Nurses Association

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada by Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Publication Date: 2020
eBook
Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care by Gary Geddes
Call Number: IAHS STACKS RA450.4.I53 .G43 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Aboriginal Health in Canada : Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram; D. Ann Herring
Call Number: IAHS and Fennell STACKS RA449 .W35 2006
Publication Date: 2006

Aboriginal Awareness Series Video 3: History and Cultural Diversity
The third video in a five-part series designed to introduce healthcare providers to information on Indigenous peoples in Canada, social determinants of health, and strategies to help increase culturally safe healthcare.

Indigenous Patient Care & Culturally Sensitive Practices

Patient Care
Culturally Sensitive Practices

Putting calls into action: Treating aboriginal patients in collaboration with indigenous healers and elders
Source: de Leeuw, S. (2017). Canadian Family Physician, 63(1), 56–59

Indigenous Peoples and Dementia: New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory care
Call Number: IAHS STACKS: RC521 .I53 2019
Publication Date: 2019

Indigenous Health: Indigenous Peoples of Canada
Source: Alberta Health Services
Aboriginal Awareness Series Video 1: Introduction to Aboriginal Awareness
The first video in a five-part series designed to introduce healthcare providers to information on Indigenous peoples in Canada, social determinants of health, and strategies to help increase culturally safe healthcare.
Aboriginal Awareness Series Video 4: Treating Everyone the Same
The fourth video in a five-part series designed to introduce healthcare providers to information on Indigenous peoples in Canada, social determinants of health, and strategies to help increase culturally safe healthcare.
Aboriginal Awareness Series Video 5: Developing Awareness and Skills in Culturally Competent Care
The fifth video in a five-part series designed to introduce healthcare providers to information on Indigenous peoples in Canada, social determinants of health, and strategies to help increase culturally safe healthcare.
Aboriginal Awareness Series Video 2: Who Are Aboriginal People?
The second video in a five-part series designed to introduce healthcare providers to information on Indigenous peoples in Canada, social determinants of health, and strategies to help increase culturally safe healthcare.
Mi'kmaw nurse explains how Indigenous pain often misunderstood
Source: CBC News, May 10, 2019

Communication: Core Interpersonal Skills for Health Professionals by Gjyn O'Toole
Call Number: IAHS STACKS R118 .O86 2016
Publication Date: 2016 Third Edition