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Resource Guide

Legislation & Policy

Lavoie, J. G., Kornelsen, D., Wylie, L., Mignone, J., Dwyer, J., Boyer, Y., Boulton, A., & O'Donnell, K. (2016). Responding to health inequities: Indigenous health system innovations. Global health, epidemiology and genomics, 1, e14. Access Link

Lavoie, J. G. (2013). Policy silences: why Canada needs a National First Nations, Inuit and Métis health policyInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health72(1), 22690. Access Link

National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. (2011). Looking for Aboriginal Health in Legislation and Policies 1970-2008: The Policy Synthesis Project. Access Link

National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health. (2025). Indigenous health in federal, provincial, and territorial health policies and systems. Access Link

Palmer, K., Tepper, J., & Nolan, M. (2017). Indigenous Health Services Often Hampered by Legislative Confusion. Healthy Debate. Access Link

Policy & Legislation Review

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

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 Commission. Witness : The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse2(1), 84–96. Access Link

Systemic Racism

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

Health Equity

Curtis, E., Jones, R., Tipene-Leach, D., Walker, C., Loring, B., Paine, S.-J., & Reid, P. (2019). Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition. International Journal for Equity in Health18(1), Article 174. Access Link

Indian Hospital History

EHC Team. (2016), "Camsell".  [Video]. YouTube. Access Link

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

Meijer Drees, L. (2010). Indian hospitals and Aboriginal nurses: Canada and Alaska. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 27(1), 139-161. Access Link

Meijer Drees, L. (2013). Healing histories : stories from Canada’s Indian hospitals (First edition, first printing, 2013.). University of Alberta Press eBOUND.Access Link

 

Non-Insured Health Benefits

Assembly of First Nations. (2018). Jordan's Principle Summit. Access Link

Government of Canada. (n.d.). Indigenous Health.  Access Link

Government of Canada. (n.d.). Jordan's Principal Access Link

Government of Canada. (n.d.). Non-insured Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit. Access Link

Government of Canada. (n.d.). Non-insured Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit. UPDATE Access Link

Government of Canada. (n.d.) Supporting Inuit Children Access Link

 

Food Systems: Policy & Practice

Mintz, C. (2019). The history of food in Canada is the history of colonialism. The Walrus. Access Link

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