Amelia Boissoneau, Rebecca D Cox, Andrea Leveille, Ravina Katie Morgan, Michelle Pidgeon, Megan Rosso
{"title":"From Reflection to Resurgence: Co-Researching Through Storymaking and Truthtelling With Urban Indigenous Women.","authors":"Amelia Boissoneau, Rebecca D Cox, Andrea Leveille, Ravina Katie Morgan, Michelle Pidgeon, Megan Rosso","doi":"10.1177/11771801261456796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801261456796","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the context of a community-university partnership, we reflect on the co-development of a research process centred on urban Indigenous women's leadership, cultural resurgence, and collective well-being. Together, Indigenous and university-based co-researchers created spaces for participants in a grassroots leadership programme to reflect on and enhance their roles through storywork, relational accountability, and cultural teachings. We share three examples of how we enacted Indigenous research principles, through sharing circles, storytelling and tea, and storymaking as a method of analysis and explore key learnings that emerged through these collaborations. In this account, we centre the experiences of the urban Indigenous women leaders among us, illustrating how re-awakening of ancestral knowledge and reclamation, grounded in matriarchal values, can inform ethical, relational research practices and support ongoing transformative impacts in both community and academic contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"22 3","pages":"651-660"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13525862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148857940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Donna L M Kurtz, Julianne Barry, Diana Moar, Karlyn Olsen, Rosanna McGregor, Arlene Vrtar-Huot, Carol Camille, Edna Terbasket, Nikki McCrimmon, Kelsey Darnay, Violet Ignace, Ethan Dallaire, Mary Hicks, Katie D'Agosto, Charlotte Jones
{"title":"Urban Indigenous Communities Transforming Health Care: \"Where We Feel Safe and Where Our People Are Working\".","authors":"Donna L M Kurtz, Julianne Barry, Diana Moar, Karlyn Olsen, Rosanna McGregor, Arlene Vrtar-Huot, Carol Camille, Edna Terbasket, Nikki McCrimmon, Kelsey Darnay, Violet Ignace, Ethan Dallaire, Mary Hicks, Katie D'Agosto, Charlotte Jones","doi":"10.1177/11771801261458365","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801261458365","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indigenous knowledge and traditional wellness approaches combined with western health services are increasingly being identified as critical for Indigenous Peoples' overall health and wellness in Canada. In this article, we share how an Urban Indigenous Collective Governance Circle led to transformational actions responding to community-voiced priorities, and co-development, delivery, evaluation, and sustainability of urban holistic traditional and western Indigenous diabetes and healthy weight programs. This resulted in increased access to, and ownership and leadership of, strengths-based, equitable, culturally safe, and distinctive diabetes and obesity wellness services in urban communities. The use of this holistic approach inclusive of traditional and western knowledge could be used to shape culturally safe, equitable, strength-based, site-specific intervention research, policies, and practice for other communities interested in diabetes, obesity, other chronic disease, and health care provision.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"22 3","pages":"826-835"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13525866/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148857949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Facilitators Raising Awareness About Colonialism Within Settler Colonies: Tensions and Ambivalence.","authors":"Kai Handfield, Thomas Delawarde-Saïas","doi":"10.1177/11771801261421626","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801261421626","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the wide interest toward the impact of antiracism or anticolonial trainings on White and settler peoples, there is a lack of consideration of the experience of racialized or Indigenous trainers. Yet, the few existing studies suggest major negative impacts: stress, emotional labor, burnout. This study explores the experience of 12 Indigenous facilitators raising awareness about colonialism in \"Quebec\" and the risk of negative effects on them, through participatory research, using qualitative methods and thematic analysis. The results show that the main difficulties are dealing with the participants, namely their questions, comments, emotions, and the ambivalence in navigating the power dynamic between settlers and First Peoples, expressed through various contradicting injunctions. This seems tolerable to the trainers as facing White settlers is worse in their daily lives. The workshops appear as an interpersonal reflection of settler-colonialism and White supremacy, through White and settler fragility and normalization of colonial violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"22 3","pages":"583-596"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13525863/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148857991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tłı̨chǫ nàowoò hoghàseètǫǫ: learning a strong like two research methodology through the exploration of community-centered curation practices.","authors":"Rebecca L Bourgeois","doi":"10.1177/11771801251407847","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801251407847","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Collaborative research is rooted in the fundamental principle of recognizing communities as equal research partners. This article draws attention to an important part of this relationship-learning the traditional values of community and emulating these in research-presenting a reflection on the lessons learned during a three-year project to redefine principles of curation according to Tłı̨chǫ traditions for caring for knowledge. Throughout this process, Tłı̨chǫ Elders offered teachings that reached beyond cultural heritage into lessons on life, humility, and collaboration. Derived from the relationship between Tłı̨chǫ nàowoò (Tłı̨chǫ traditional knowledge, language, culture, and way of life), caribou, and building fires, a strong like two research methodology embodies the role of different perspectives in forming one strong voice. It draws from the Tłı̨chǫ teaching that encourages learning from multiple perspectives to be strong like two people and is the result of the missteps and mentorship experienced throughout our research.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"22 2","pages":"273-284"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13218597/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Krista Stelkia, Tara Lise Erb, Lindsay Botterill, Julianne Cecile Barry
{"title":"From capacity-building to capacity-bridging: Indigenous Research Liaisons as a strategic intervention to bridge Indigenous communities' capacities in the British Columbia health research environment.","authors":"Krista Stelkia, Tara Lise Erb, Lindsay Botterill, Julianne Cecile Barry","doi":"10.1177/11771801251409186","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801251409186","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The British Columbia Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (BC NEIHR) supports research capacity, engagement, and leadership of Indigenous communities, collectives, and organizations (ICCOs) in Indigenous-led health research. To support Indigenous self-determination in the health research landscape, the BC NEIHR centers Indigenous approaches in research policy and practice. The BC NEIHR uses the term capacity-bridging, opposed to capacity-building, to acknowledge and support existing ICCO research capacities, distinct cultural knowledges, and community-led perspectives. The BC NEIHR enacts its commitment to ICCO self-determined health research through capacity-bridging initiatives including the Indigenous Research Liaison (IRL) program. We share how the IRL program created meaningful change through ICCO relationship-building, knowledge sharing and resource development, health research partnerships, and institutional systems-level change. The IRL program represents a case study of how an organizational-level strategic intervention can help shape and inform the transformation of research environments to better support Indigenous self-determination in Indigenous-led health research.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"22 2","pages":"555-561"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13218596/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148139893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tara Lise Erb, Julianne Cecile Barry, Krista Stelkia
{"title":"Supporting Indigenous self-determination through institutional readiness for change: Indigenous cultural safety considerations for research administration from the British Columbia Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research.","authors":"Tara Lise Erb, Julianne Cecile Barry, Krista Stelkia","doi":"10.1177/11771801251412977","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801251412977","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The British Columbia Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (BC NEIHR) supports self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous communities, collectives, and organizations (ICCOs) in health research. Through partnerships with ICCOs, Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, and external Indigenous and non-Indigenous partner organizations across BC, the BC NEIHR works closely with research administrators to advance self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and ICCOs in health research. To transform the current research environment and uphold Indigenous self-determination, research institutions and administration must build and strengthen culturally safe and meaningful partnerships with Indigenous Peoples and ICCOs. Through the Indigenous Cultural Safety in Research Framework, the BC NEIHR challenges dominant Western colonial environments of research to advance decolonization of all research systems, including research administration. We share considerations for Indigenous cultural safety in research administration, including recommendations that address power imbalances, bridge capacity, and build culturally safe and meaningful relationships within Indigenous health research.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"22 1","pages":"134-143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13044474/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chloe Crosschild, Colleen Varcoe, Helen J Brown, Annette J Browne
{"title":"Indigenous women's health and data sovereignty: imagining an Indigenous research methodology using quantitative methods.","authors":"Chloe Crosschild, Colleen Varcoe, Helen J Brown, Annette J Browne","doi":"10.1177/11771801251392925","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801251392925","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores Indigenous Research Methodologies (IRM) in the context of Indigenous women's health, integrating principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) and theoretical ideas from Critical Indigenous Feminism (CIF) and Red Intersectionality (RI). Building on ongoing critiques of dominant Eurocentric health research paradigms, we advocate for IRM to guide quantitative methods that typically exclude Indigenous Peoples and perspectives, perpetuating colonial practices. Incorporating ideas underpinning notions of RI into quantitative studies centers analyses of how colonialism and racism intersect with gender in research with Indigenous women. The authors also call for IDS to ensure Indigenous women have authority over health data and highlight the importance of relational accountability and ethics in research involving Indigenous communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"22 1","pages":"3-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13044471/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Diego Marques Santos, Tracey Carr, Stacey McHenry, Erin Leeder, Sheila Laroque, Gary Groot
{"title":"Frameworks and models that promote Métis health: a narrative review.","authors":"José Diego Marques Santos, Tracey Carr, Stacey McHenry, Erin Leeder, Sheila Laroque, Gary Groot","doi":"10.1177/11771801251374209","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801251374209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Culture is a determinant of health for Indigenous peoples, providing a sense of belonging, strengthening resilience, and promoting wellness. Consequently, there is growing interest in exploring the relationship between Métis (distinct Indigenous people, rooted in both First Nations and European ancestry, Canada), culture, and health. A search of scholarly databases and gray literature resulted in 14 records that met inclusion criteria. Articles revealed seven frameworks and three models that applied Métis knowledge to health. Reiterative readings were used to analyze models and frameworks. Results indicated that one or multiple approaches to health were incorporated: (1) Métis symbolism and concepts; (2) social determinants of health and the life course perspective; (3) engagement with Métis government, organizations, and community; and (4) research methods and knowledge translation. These findings can foster the development of culturally appropriate models, frameworks, and strategies that favor Métis culture in health research to more effectively promote Métis health.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"21 4","pages":"674-685"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13043029/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147610735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agroecological transition or <i>agroecological repossession</i>? Resurgence of traditional food culture in the Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú.","authors":"Lauriane Tremembé, Mateus Tremembé, Evan Bowness","doi":"10.1177/11771801251369560","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801251369560","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Industrial food systems, as extensions of colonial dispossession, are destroying the planet. Agroecology is increasingly promoted as a response, framed as an ecological farming practice, a grassroots movement, and an academic field. Yet, much agroecological knowledge remains embedded in the same Western institutions and epistemologies that underpin industrial agriculture. As such, agroecological science can reproduce patterns of knowledge extraction and exploitation. Drawing on <i>environmental repossession</i>, which describes how Indigenous communities restore relationships with land, and a framework for ethical engagement between Indigenous and Western sciences, we reframe agroecological transitions as agroecological repossessions. This reframing centers the resurgence of traditional foodways and resituates innovations in ecological agriculture within the continuity of ancestral land relations. Through an example from the Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú (an Indigenous community in Ceará, Brazil), we show how reframing agroecological transitions this way opens the possibility of reclaiming agroecological science itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"21 3","pages":"510-521"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13046229/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Métis women's health and wellbeing scoping review: resurgence in action.","authors":"Janice Cindy Gaudet, Hannah Bouvier, Paulette Dahlseide","doi":"10.1177/11771801251363444","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11771801251363444","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Métis (one of three constitutionally recognized Indigenous Peoples in Canada) women's health and wellbeing research that centers resurgence, resistance, kinship, land, and place offers an intersectional perspective that interrupts deficit-based health narratives. To understand these intersections and emerging pathways, we conducted a Métis women's health and wellbeing scoping review to get an overall picture of breadth and depth of published articles since 2010. 29 articles fit our scoping criteria. Our findings show that Métis women's health and wellbeing research offers insight into what Métis women are saying about their own health and wellbeing. They also demonstrate the pivots to broader understanding of identity and gender beyond binary norms, to engagement with two national inquiries, partnerships with political organizations, and COVID-19. The growing uptake on positionality reflects the ways in which Métis-centered epistemologies, methodologies, theories, and methods intersect with Métis women's health and wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":72153,"journal":{"name":"AlterNative (Auckland, N.Z. : 2005)","volume":"21 4","pages":"754-766"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13046266/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}