Health Research and Indigenous Health

Communities take the lead: exploring Indigenous health research practices through Two-Eyed Seeing & kinship

International Journal of Circumpolar Health ◽

10.1080/22423982.2021.1929755 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 80 (1) ◽

pp. 1929755

Author(s):

John R. Sylliboy ◽

Margot Latimer ◽

Elder Albert Marshall ◽

Emily MacLeod

Keyword(s):

Health Research ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Research Practices

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Beyond deficit: ‘strengths‐based approaches’ in Indigenous health research

Sociology of Health & Illness ◽

10.1111/1467-9566.13311 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Joanne Bryant ◽

Reuben Bolt ◽

Jessica R. Botfield ◽

Kacey Martin ◽

Michael Doyle ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Research ◽

Indigenous Health

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Indigenous health disparities, a challenge and opportunity

Canadian Journal of Surgery ◽

10.1503/cjs.011718 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 300-301

Author(s):

Alika Lafontaine

Keyword(s):

Health Disparities ◽

Health Research ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Clinical Considerations

Clinical Indigenous health research is sparse and often not patient-centred. Despite a broad acknowledgement that Indigenous patients have unique clinical considerations, specific interventional research in Indigenous health is lacking.

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If We Show Them Will They Come? Attitudes of Native American Youth Towards Higher Education

First Peoples Child & Family Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal Honouring the Voices, Perspectives, and Knowledges of First Peoples ◽

10.7202/1069333ar ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 99-105

Author(s):

Emmerentine Oliphant ◽

Sharon B. Templeman

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Health Research ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Native Community ◽

Research Methodologies ◽

General Validity ◽

Native Canadian ◽

Indigenous Ways Of Knowing

Indigenous health research should reflect the needs and benefits of the participants and their community as well as academic and practitioner interests. The research relationship can be viewed as co-constructed by researchers, participants, and communities, but this nature often goes unrecognized because it is confined by the limits of Western epistemology. Dominant Western knowledge systems assume an objective reality or truth that does not support multiple or subjective realities, especially knowledge in which culture or context is important, such as in Indigenous ways of knowing. Alternatives and critiques of the current academic system of research could come from Native conceptualizations and philosophies, such as Indigenous ways of knowing and Indigenous protocols, which are increasingly becoming more prominent both Native and non-Native societies. This paper contains a narrative account by an Indigenous researcher of her personal experience of the significant events of her doctoral research, which examined the narratives of Native Canadian counselors’ understanding of traditional and contemporary mental health and healing. As a result of this narrative, it is understood that research with Indigenous communities requires a different paradigm than has been historically offered by academic researchers. Research methodologies employed in Native contexts must come from Indigenous values and philosophies for a number of important reasons and with consequences that impact both the practice of research itself and the general validity of research results. In conclusion, Indigenous ways of knowing can form a new basis for understanding contemporary health research with Indigenous peoples and contribute to the evolution of Indigenous academics and research methodologies in both Western academic and Native community contexts.

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