The First Nations Health Authority has partnered with the International Journal of Indigenous Health to produce a special two-part guest edition of the journal titled, Health Systems Innovation: Privileging Indigenous Knowledge, Ensuring Respectful Care, and Ending Racism toward Indigenous Peoples in Service Delivery.
Honouring the Sacred Fire: Ending Systemic Racism toward Indigenous Peoples by 
Part Two: Wisdom of the Elders: Honouring Spiritual Laws in Indigenous Knowledge by 
This link opens in a new windowThese database focus on health, medicine and healing topics and can be searched for articles related to Indigenous health topics. See suggested search terms . Need help from a librarian?
Peer-reviewed articles, sometimes called scholarly or academic articles, are written by academics and reviewed by other experts in their field before being published. Watch the following video and complete the self assessment quiz to learn more about the peer review process.
Many databases allow you to
limit your search to peer-reviewed articles. For example, when searching Single Search, the main search tool of the library, filter your search results to peer reviewed articles by checking the box on the left-hand column.
Other terms for peer-reviewed articles include:
The following open access scoping review, authored by Dr. Nicole Redvers identified 249 articles related to traditional Indigenous medicine in the North American context. Scoping reviews provide a literature review of the available journal publications on a specific topic. Categorical themes include: General Traditional Medicine, integration of Traditional and Western medicine systems, Ceremonial Practice for Healing, Usage of Traditional Medicine, and Traditional Healer Perspectives. Also included is a link to a database of the 249 articles.
If Camosun library does not have a specific article or book that you want, library staff can request it from another library.
Interlibrary loan service is provided to support research and study undertaken at Camosun and is available free to registered students, instructors and staff.
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