Consultation Process
The Health Sciences Library has a librarian who works closely with the Indigenous Health Learning Lodge (IHLL) and the collections librarian for the ongoing development of our Indigenous health collection. This collection is robust and responsive to recommendation from our community. When we receive a resource requests from an Indigenous member of the community the item is purchased and added to the collection. Requests received from non-indigenous persons will require consultation before purchase, and this will occur with our Indigenous book vendor, liaison librarian to IHLL, or another member of the Indigenous community.
As we move forward in developing the Indigenous health collection we welcome your feedback and recommendations, particularly if you identify as Indigenous. Requests may be submitted to Andrea McLellan: mclell @mcmaster.ca
Indigenous Health Resources
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Informit Indigenous Collection This link opens in a new window
Coverage: 1977-present
To search subscribed content, select "Only show content I have full access to." The Informit Indigenous Collection features global, cutting-edge research on topical and historical Indigenous issues, fostering critical international dialogue.
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Films on Demand: Indigenous Studies This link opens in a new window
Created in Canada. This playlist features Canadian programming covering the various effects of colonialism in Canada from a historical and contemporary perspective.
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Sage Research Methods: Diversifying & Decolonizing Research. This link opens in a new window
A powerful collection promoting inclusive, critical research through diverse voices and decolonial perspectives, highlighting marginalized and underrepresented communities while challenging traditional paradigms.
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An Introduction to Indigenous Health and Healthcare in Canada
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Publication Date: 2020-First edition named a 2013 PROSE Award Winner in Nursing and Allied Health Sciences.This textbook for Canadian nursing and allied health students explores the major health issues of Indigenous populations and how to improve their overall health. -
Medicine unbundled : a journey through the minefields of Indigenous health care
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An investigative exploration of the separate "Indian hospitals" that existed in Canada for many decades, told through memoir, archival research, and interviews with survivors
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Structures of Indifference
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Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. In September 2008, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabe resident of Winnipeg, arrived in the emergency room of a major downtown hospital. Over a thirty-four- hour period, he was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection.McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneityin the city of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death.
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Under-Served: health determinants of Indigenous, inner-city, and migrant populations in Canada
Publication Date: 2018Platform: ProQuest Ebook Central
