Indigenous Health & Health Care Resources
TPC Webinar
ReconciliACTION - An Indigenous Perspective (Indigenous Primary Care Health Council)
Date: April 26, 2023
Presenters: Marilee Nowgesic, Mandy Mack, Amber Ruben, Nathalie Pambrun
Key Reports
Background Resources
How to talk about Indigenous people
Canadian History and the Indian Residential School System
The Indian Act Explained
Historical Background
First Nations, Metis and Inuit Health Information
University of Manitoba guide for Indigenous Health
The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools
Indigenous Health
Maskwacis activates 'medicine chest' treaty clause, declaring state of emergency
2020
The chiefs said the Maskwacis declaration is intended to activate the medicine chest and famine and pestilence clauses of Treaty 6.
The clauses have been interpreted by Indigenous leaders to mean that the federal government has an obligation to provide all forms of healthcare to First Nations people on an ongoing basis.
Senator Murray Sinclair: The truth is hard. Reconciliation is harder
Researching and Revealing Indian Hospitals in Canada
Indigenous health in Canada
Canada's Indigenous Suicide Crisis... a brief explanation
Critical Cases and Reports
The Brian Sinclair case: First Nations, Second-Class Care
2014 - Sinclair, 45 was a homeless man and a double-amputee who died at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg of a treatable bladder infection after waiting 34 hours for care. He was also aboriginal. Read and Listen here
Report on Brian Sinclair: Out of Sight
Jordans Principle the story of Jordan River Anderson - Maurina Beadle
2013 - Cindy Blackstock telling the story of Jordan River Anderson - Maurina Beadle
2018 - Video Temporarily Unavailable
Introducing Joyce's Principle
2020 - Atikamekw present Joyce's Principle to the governments of Québec and Canada - Read here.
2021 - Atikamekw community of Manawan appeals to UN for help to push Joyce’s Principle - Read here.
In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care
The Viens Commission Final Report
Primary care in Indigenous Communities
Is Canada's health care system failing patients in northern communities?
2018 - Dr. Mike Kirlew is a family physician based in Sioux Lookout, Ont., and he’s one of the few doctors that flies into remote Indigenous communities. He says the level of care his patients receive is nowhere near comparable to what other Canadians receive.
Indigenous Knowledge to Close Gaps in Indigenous Health
2016 - Health programs that are culture-based and use both western and Indigenous knowledge have the potential to be more responsive to Indigenous peoples and their rights than the status quo and could be the key to closing the gaps in Indigenous health.