Voices from the Field

(Le français suit l'anglais)  Health impact assessment (HIA) provides a systematic process to identify and analyze the potential effects of a proposed development project on the health and well-being of a population. For Indigenous Peoples in Canada, standardized HIAs are not able to adequately measure potential health impacts as these processes do not consider the full range of cultural, social,...

(Le français suit l'anglais) In Canada’s oil and gas industry, impact assessments (IAs) are used to determine the positive and negative externalities of proposed projects. These assessments tend to prioritize economic gains over the values of Indigenous communities who bear the weight of impacts. In this recording of the NCCIH Webinar "Mentions and measures: How are Indigenous values considered in...

(Le français suit l'anglais)  NCCIH Webinar – Indigenous-specific health impact assessment: What might it look like in Canada? This video recording of the NCCIH Webinar "Indigenous-specific health impact assessment: What might it look like in Canada?" will explore what distinctions-based Indigenous-specific health impact assessment (HIA) could look like in Canada, advancing Indigenous Peoples’ kno...

(Le français suit l'anglais)  NCCIH Webinar – H.E.A.L. Healthcare: Hearts-based Education and Anticolonial Learning in Healthcare  This audio recording of the NCCIH Webinar "H.E.A.L. Healthcare: Hearts-based Education and Anticolonial Learning in Healthcare" engages participants in anti-bias training using anticolonial arts-based learning tools available from the H.E.A.L. Healthcare website – HEAL...

(Le français suit l'anglais)  Despite several approaches to Indigenous participation and engagement proposed by the federal government, Indigenous communities are demanding that the development of distinctions-based and culturally relevant Indigenous specific HIA require a stand-alone Indigenous specific HIA process informed by guidance, expectations, and standards established by Indigenous commun...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Bailey Quaw The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storytellers part...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Anzel Labatch-Patrick The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storyte...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Destiny Henyu-Rinsma The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storytel...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Jackson Cameron The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storytellers...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Alexander Anguttautuq The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storyte...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Halil Ibrahim Napatchie Noah Sundu The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the di...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Jeremy Hague The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storytellers par...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Miley Melnyk The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storytellers parti...

Le français suit l'anglais. Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth - Jesse Macdonald The NCCIH undertook a national digital storytelling project, "Hearing the stories of our health: Perspectives of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis youth" to better understand what health and well-being mean to Indigenous young people. Nine of the digital storytellers...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the field 37 – Indigenous knowledges and pandemic science: A conversation with Dr. Nicole Redvers In this episode, guest host Nicole Halbauer speaks with Dr. Nicole Redvers, a member of the Denı́nu Kų́ę́ First Nation and Associate Professor at Western University. Dr. Redvers contrasts Western science and Indigenous science, details the worldviews that unde...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the field 36 – Gone south: The over-reliance on medical transportation and its impact on Inuit health and well-being In this episode, guest host Aluki Kotierk speaks with Dr. Richard Budgell, a Labrador Inuk and Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at McGill University, and Siksik, Melodie Sammurtok-Lavallee, an Inuk from the Kivalliq region of Nunavut and...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the field 35 – Kinauvit? What's your name? The Eskimo disc system and a daughter's search for her grandmother – A conversation with Norma Dunning In this episode, guest host Aluki Kotierk speaks with Dr. Norma Dunning about her book "Kinauvit? What's Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter's Search for her Grandmother," which investigates the little...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field - Episode 34 – Decarceration and health: Breaking down bars for systemic change – Part 4: the BC First Nations Justice Council In this episode, we speak with Miranda Seymour, Mark Connelly, and Dr. Jason Webb from the BC First Nations Justice Council (BCFNJC). We explore the new BCFNJC pre-charge diversion pilot project in Prince George, BC, and it...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field - 33 - Decarceration and health - Part 3: the wîyasôw iskweêw restorative justice project. "Decarceration and health: Breaking down bars for systemic change – Part 3: the wîyasôw iskweêw restorative justice project". In this episode, we speak with Justice Anna Loparco of the King’s Bench of Alberta, Deputy Chief Justice Joanne Durant and Justice Mi...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field - 32 - Decarceration and health - Part 2: Dr. Justin Tetrault "Decarceration and health: Breaking down bars for systemic change" is a mini-series within Voices from the Field. It explores the realities and impact of community-based justice alternatives, their connection to health, and what is needed to affect and inspire change and address the curr...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 31 - Decarceration and health - Part 1: Elder John Bigstone "Decarceration and health: Breaking down bars for systemic change" is a mini-series within Voices from the Field. It explores the realities and impact of community-based justice alternatives, their connection to health, and what is needed to affect and inspire change and address the curren...

Le français suit l'anglais. This webinar examines two key aspects of community well-being - housing and community safety. Dr. Stark considers housing as a human right and treaty right examining Indigenous legal orders in relation to housing and discussing Indigenous jurisdiction regarding housing, encampments, and policy making. In calling for a move towards ontologies of care, Dr. Stark then turn...

Le français suit l'anglais. In this audio recording of the NCCIH Webinar "Cold war uranium mining and its impact on land, water, and Anishinaabe wellness", Dr. Lianne Leddy shares her research on the ways in which settler extractive forces compromised Anishinaabe land and water in the Cold War period. Using archival and oral history methods, Leddy also emphasizes how Indigenous political leaders c...

Le français suit l'anglais. Voices from the Field 30 - Racialized incivility: Identity as a determinant of health This podcast features a panel discussion on Indigenous identity as a determinant of health. Hosted by Dr. Sheila Blackstock, former Academic Lead of the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health and current Associate Professor in the Nursing Program at the University of North...

Le français suit l'anglais. NCCIH Webinar – Pathways to Indigenous Health - Treaty relations and the politics of life In this audio recording of the NCCIH Webinar Dr. Gina Starblanket examines treaty relations and the politics of life, including: - the history of healthcare provisions in the numbered treaties as well as contemporary issues surrounding them, - the social and political dimensions of...