Research Guides: Indigenous Health Sciences: Searching for Indigenous Health Sciences

Indigenous Health & Wellness

Graphic from First Nations Health Authority, What is Land-Based Treatment and Healing?

For many Indigenous peoples, physical health is not separable from mental, spiritual, and emotional health, nor is it separable from other wholistic factors, like relationships, community, nationhood, land, and family. When searching for information on Indigenous health, many resources will incorporate all of these dimensions of health, rather than focus on one narrow topic or element.

This guide has grouped information by topic, but each of these topics are interrelated and connected.

It is important to locate yourself and the community/communities that you are working with or learning about. Different nations have different protocols, histories, strengths, and spiritualities. What is true of one community may not be true of another. There is no single Indigenous approach to health and healing. For resources and support also see our Decolonization & Anti-Racism LibGuide.

Suggested Search Terms

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Indigenous health	"Traditional healing" AND Indigenous
Healthcare AND Indigenous	"Land-based healing"
Wellness AND Indigenous	Culture AND Health AND Indigenous

Browse by X̱wi7x̱wa Subject Heading

Relevant subject headings:

Aboriginal Canadians--Health	Aboriginal Canadians--Health services	Aboriginal Canadians--Health care
Aboriginal Canadians--Health services--British Columbia.	Aboriginal Canadians--Health--Government policy	Métis--Health
Aboriginal Canadians--Traditional medicine	Aboriginal Canadians--Traditional food	Aboriginal Canadians--Healing
Aboriginal Canadians--Health--Programs	Aboriginal Canadians--Health--Decolonization.	Aboriginal Canadians--Health--History.
Aboriginal Canadians--Health--Research.	Aboriginal Canadians--Health--Community Programs.	Aboriginal Canadians--Health care--Study and teaching

Journals

International Journal of Indigenous Health
Shares Indigenous health research and practice from across disciplines, indigenous communities, and countries.
Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health (TIJIH)
Established in 2019 by graduate students at University of Toronto, the Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is a collaborative project run by an expanding network of graduate students and Indigenous Knowledge Holders across Canada.
AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
Publishes scholarly research on Indigenous worldviews and experiences of decolonization from Indigenous perspectives from around the world.
CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Indigenous articles in CMAJ.
Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing - Te Mauri Pimatisiwin
A peer-reviewed, open-access, scholarly online journal that shares multi-disciplinary indigenous knowledge and research experience amongst indigenous health professionals, leaders, researchers and community members.