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Open Access Courses

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Barrera, J. (2018, March 29). The horror of St. Anne's. CBC News. Access Link

British Columbia Ministry of Health, & Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions. (2024). Indigenous cultural safety: Trauma-informed care. Government of British Columbia. Access Link

Chief’s Steering Committee on Technical Services. (2025, July 17). Treaty Chiefs Condemn Bill C-5, Demand Carney Enforce Rights and Repeal Natural Resources Transfer Agreement. Cision News Access Link

Crane Bear, L., Hannant, L., & Patton, K. R. (Eds.). (2021). Bucking conservatism : alternative stories of Alberta from the 1960s And 1970s. Athabasca University Press. Access Link

Craft, A. & Lebihan, A. (2021). The treaty right to health: A sacred obligation. National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. Access LInk

Dumont, J. (2014). National native addictions partnership foundation, honouring our strengths: Indigenous culture as intervention in addictions treatment project . University of Saskatchewan. Bothwell, Ontario: Author. Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Access Link

Gerbrandt, R., & Carleton, S. (2023, October). Debunking the ‘mass grave hoax’: Report on media coverage and residential school denialism in Canada. Access Link

Government of Canada. (2020). Meet the methods series: "What and who is Two-Spirit?" in health research. Access LInk

Halseth, R., & Odulaja, O. (2024). Trauma informed care in the management and treatment of tuberculosis in Indigenous populations. National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. Access Link

How Stanley Redcrow and First Nations activists reclaimed the Blue Quills Residential School. (2017, May 10). CBC Access Link

Laboucan, AL. (2024, Sept. 10). What is Indigenous data sovereignty and why does it matter? Ensuring that Indigenous peoples have control over data related to Residential Schools, health, census, and more is crucial to truth and reconciliation in Canada. The University of British Columbia Magazine. Access Link

Loppie, C., & Wein, F. (2022). Understanding Indigenous health inequalities through a social determinants model. National Collaborating Center for indigenous Health. Access Link

Lux, M.K. (2010). Care for the ‘racially careless’: Indian Hospitals in the Canadian West,1920–1950sCanadian Historical Review, 91(3), 407-434. Access Link

McDougall, B. (2017). Land, family, and identity: Contextualizing Metis health and well-being. National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. Access Link

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People National Action Plan. (2021). Access Link

National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. (2022). Climate change and Indigenous people’s health in Canada. (Reprinted with permission from P. Berry and R. Schnitter (Eds), Health of Canadians in a changing climate: Advancing our knowledge for action, [Chapter 2].) Government of Canada. Access Link

National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health.(2019). Access to health services as a social determinant of First Nations, Inuit and Metis health.  National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. Access Link

National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. (2021). Visioning the future: first Nations, Inuit and Metis population and public health. National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. Access Link

Public Health Agency of Canada. (2018). Trauma and violence-informed approaches to policy and practice. Government of Canada. Access Link

Statistics Canada. (2024, November 4). Experiences of discrimination among Indigenous people in Canada. Access Link

United Nations. (n.d.). We are Indigenous: ‘Culture meets care’ essential in Indigenous healthcare and revitalization. Access Link

United Nations. (2007). United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Access Link

Waldron, I. (2024). Environmental racism. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Access Link

Webb, D. (2022). Indigenous health in federal, provincial, and territorial health policies and systems. National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. Access Link

Webb, D. (2024). Barred – Over-incarceration of Indigenous people in Canada’s criminal legal system, the health implications, and opportunities for decarceration. National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health. Access Link

MacEwan Collection

Beaulieu, C. R. (2021). The Historic and Contemporary Permanence of the Doctrine of Discovery in CanadaUniversity of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal7(1). Access Link

Corntassel, J. (2008). Toward sustainable self-determination: Rethinking the contemporary indigenous-rights discourse. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 33(1), 105–132. Access Link

Daschuk, J. W. (2019). Clearing the Plains : disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of indigenous life (New edition.). University of Regina Press. Access Link

Fiedeldey-Van Dijk, C., Rowan, M., Dell, C., Mushquash, C., Hopkins, C., Fornssler, B., Hall, L., Mykota, D., Farag, M., & Shea, B. (2017). Honoring Indigenous culture-as-intervention: Development and validity of the Native Wellness Assessment TM. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 16(2), 181–218. Access Link

Fletcher, A. (2019). The man who lived with a giant : stories from Johnny Neyelle, Dene Elder (A. Fletcher & M. Neyelle, Eds.; 1st ed.). Polynya Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press. Access Link

Foronda, C. (2020). A Theory of Cultural HumilityJournal of Transcultural Nursing31(1), 7–12. Access Link

Glennie, C. (2018). “We don’t kiss like that”: Inuit women respond to music video representations. AlterNative : An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples14(2), 104–112. Access Link

Hansen, J. G., & Dim, E. E. (2019). Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the Imperative for a More Inclusive PerspectiveInternational Indigenous Policy Journal10(1), 1–18. Access Link

How the legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples lives on, 25 years later. (2021). In Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). CQ-Roll Call, Inc. Access Link

John, J., & Castleden, H. (2025). “Because you love us as much as we love you”: The role of community relationships in facilitating Indigenous engagement in healthcareSocial Science & Medicine (1982)365, Article 117532. Access Link

Lavoie, J. G. (2013). Policy silences: Why Canada needs a National First Nations, Inuit and Métis health policy. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 72(1). Access Link

Lawrence, T. J., & James, R. D. (2019). Good Health and Wellness: Measuring Impact Through an Indigenous Lens. Preventing Chronic Disease, 16, Article 180655. Access LInk

Leason, J. (2021). Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women: Strengths to build upon. Canadian Family Physician67(7), 525–527. Access Link

Marsh, T. N., Marsh, D. C., Ozawagosh, J., & Ozawagosh, F. (2018). The Sweat Lodge Ceremony: A Healing Intervention for Intergenerational Trauma and Substance Use. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 9(2), 1–22. Access Link

Mosby, I., & Galloway, T. (2017). ‘The abiding condition was hunger’: assessing the long-term biological and health effects of malnutrition and hunger in Canada’s residential schoolsBritish Journal of Canadian Studies30(2), 147–162. Access Link

Njeze, C., Bird-Naytowhow, K., Pearl, T., & Hatala, A. R. (2020). Intersectionality of Resilience: A Strengths-Based Case Study Approach With Indigenous Youth in an Urban Canadian Context. Qualitative Health Research, 30(13), 2001–2018. Access Link

Palmater, P. D. (2014). Genocide, Indian policy, and the Indian Act. In  A. Woolford, J. Benvenuto, &  A. L. Hinton (Eds.), Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America (pp. 56–71). Duke University Press. Access Link

Phillips-Beck, W., Eni, R., Lavoie, J. G., Avery Kinew, K., Kyoon Achan, G., & Katz, A. (2020). Confronting Racism within the Canadian Healthcare System: Systemic Exclusion of First Nations from Quality and Consistent Care. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health17(22), 8343. Access Link

Racism, prejudice contributed to Joyce Echaquan’s death in hospital, Quebec coroner’s inquiry concludes. (2021). In Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). CQ-Roll Call, Inc. Access Link

Starblanket, G., & Hunt, D. (2020). Storying violence : unravelling colonial narratives in the Stanley trial. ARP Books. Access Link

Stewart, D. A. (1936). The Red Man and the White PlagueCanadian Medical Association Journal35(6), 674–676. Access Link

Symenuk, P. M., Tisdale, D., Bourque Bearskin, D. H., & Munro, T. (2020). In Search of the Truth: Uncovering Nursing’s Involvement in Colonial Harms and Assimilative Policies Five Years Post Truth and Reconciliation CommissionWitness : The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse2(1), 84–96. Access Link

Taima Moeke-Pickering, Sheila Cote-Meek, & Ann Pegoraro. (2018). Understanding the ways missing and murdered indigenous women are framed and handled by social media users. Media International Australia Incorporating Culture & Policy169(1), 54–64. Access Link

Van Styvendale, N. (Ed.). (2021). The arts of Indigenous health and well-being. University of Manitoba Press. Access Link

Vowel, C. (2016). Indigenous writes : a guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit issues in Canada (1st ed.). HighWater Press. Access Link

 

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