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The search strategies detailed below are intended to help you find peer reviewed sources by Indigenous scholars on the topic of Indigenous People's access to healthcare, with a focus on the Canadian context. 

There is not a single way to locate all articles written by Indigenous scholars. The First Nations and Indigenous Studies guide from the Xwi7xwa Library at UBC Vancouver provides guidance how to find Indigenous perspectives. The following strategies are derived from that research guide. 

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First, consider terminology and keywords that you type carefully, using synonyms to broaden your search. Depending on the geography that you are focussed on, different terminology will be more or less relevant in terms of current usage

• Example of synonyms: indigenous OR aboriginal OR "first nation*" OR metis OR inuit OR native OR indian
• Review this sample set of results from peer-reviewed journals about Indigenous access to healthcare in Canada 

Second, consider the following suggestions on how to narrow your search to find Indigenous authors and perspectives

• One way to do this is by searching for sources published by Indigenous organizations. Taking the string of synonyms above for the word Indigenous and searching within the author field can help return results from Indigenous organizations.
• Review this sample set of results from peer-reviewed journals with Indigenous organization authorship
• Another way to do this is by searching for sources that prioritize Indigenous individual perspectives/authorship. The following terms can be helpful to try and locate these: biograph* OR interview* OR autoethnograph* OR autobiograph* OR perspectiv* OR narrativ* OR "first person"
• Review this sample set of results about Indigenous access to healthcare in Canada that highlight Indigenous perspectives/authorship

Third, consider where you are searching

Summon, the UBC Library search, provides access to resources from many disciplines, and you can limit to peer reviewed articles. The sample searches above are from Summon.

There are additional databases that are narrower in scope and focus on Indigenous topics: