Resources

PROCEDE 17 May 2023

Here is a list of resources where you can begin to find more information to support Indigenous cultural awareness and safety in your programs:

If you have not already read the Quebec specific ‘Viens Commission Report’, we highly suggest you take a look at the Health & Social Services section of the summary and final reports below.

Public Inquiry Commission on relations between Indigenous Peoples and certain public services in Québec: listening, reconciliation and progress

https://www.cerp.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/Fichiers_clients/Rapport/Final_report.pdf

The Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action (see specifically #22 and #24)

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1524499024614/1557512659251

This is the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. See in particular Article #24 on Rights to Traditional Medicines

https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Report section 9 on Health and healing

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Final_Report_Vol_1b.pdf

The healing power of art: Indigenous artists bring to life Indigenous healthcare education resource from Queen’s University Health sciences

https://healthsci.queensu.ca/stories/feature/healing-power-art-indigenous-artists-bring-life-indigenous-healthcare-education

The Decolonial toolbox

The Decolonial Toolbox offers the general public an Educational Pathway to understand historical and contemporary Indigenous realities.

The Decolonial Toolbox – An educational Pathway

The Ally Toolkit

In this Indigenous Ally Toolkit (2019), you will learn the role that an individual occupies and plays within the collective experience and more.

https://reseaumtlnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Ally_March.pdf

Palliative Care

https://www.mcgill.ca/council-on-palliative-care/article/stories-kahnawake-finding-strength-and-support-through-our-cultural-spirituality-traditional-beliefs

https://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Beginning-the-journey-into-the-spirit-world-FINAL-SM.pdf

Cancer

First Peoples, Second Class Treatment

This paper looks at the role of racism in health care

https://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Summary-First-Peoples-Second-Class-Treatment-Final.pdf

#10

Indigenous experiences with racism and it’s impacts by the National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health

#11

Genocide by a Million Papercuts article

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nin.12314

#12

First Nations 101 by Linda Gray (book) and guide

“Lynda Gray’s (Ts’msyen Nation) accessible primer on Indigenous peoples’ past and present is geared towards both non-Indigenous and Indigenous readers. First Nations 101 provides an overview of the day-to-day lives of Indigenous people, traditional Indigenous communities, colonial interventions used in an attempt to assimilate Indigenous people into mainstream society, the impacts those interventions had on Indigenous families and communities, and how Indigenous people are working towards holistic health and wellness today.”

https://www.firstnations101.com

Study guide

https://nebula.wsimg.com/d4788ff2b938a125a929e7d065f2a69c?AccessKeyId=78802D86C5160EBDF53F&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

#13

National Indigenous Cultural Safety Webinars

https://www.icscollaborative.com

#14

Medicine Unbundled A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (book) by Gary Geddes

https://healthsci.queensu.ca/stories/feature/healing-power-art-indigenous-artists-bring-life-indigenous-healthcare-education

#15

Map of Indigenous Nations Territories in Quebec

https://indigenousquebec.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwjMiiBhA4EiwAZe6jQ jBd4bj73FR5if1uk6pM8kZ1XjvnGTPuM_4HEH6CNSHyH2DgbuYHRoCUEUQAvD_ BwE