Below are websites, literature, readings or other sources that may be helpful when conducting Indigenous health research. Please contact the Network Coordinator (bcneihr@uvic.ca) for assistance in connecting with resources. 

Evaluation

• BC NEIHR Evaluation Framework (Tara Erb & Charlotte Loppie, 2022)
• Creating New Stories: The Role of Evaluation in Truth and Reconciliation  (Larry Bremner, 2019)
• JRI Honouring Reconciliation in Evaluation Workshop Manual  (Johnston Research Inc, 2016)
• Measuring Wellness: An Indicator Development Guide for First Nations (Bronwen Geddes, 2015)
• Participatory Evaluation: Community-based Assessment and Strategic Learning  (Tamarack Institute, 2020)
• Redefining how Success is Measured in First Nations, Inuit and Métis Learning  (Canadian Council on Learning, 2007)
• Reframing Evaluation: Defining an Indigenous Evaluation Framework  (LaFrance & Nichols, 2010)
• The Waawiyeyaa Evaluation Tool Manual  (Johnston Research Inc, 2010)

Knowledge Translation 

• 6 Guidelines for Projects involving Traditional Indigenous Knowledge (Blog, 2018)
• CIHR Knowledge to Action: A Knowledge Translation Casebook (website)
• CIHR KT Publications (website)
• CIHR Understanding and Respecting the Distinct Needs of Aboriginal Communities in Research (website)
• Community-led Knowledge Translation: Experiences with Indigenous Communities (YouTube video, 27 Feb 2020)
• Effective Knowledge Translation Approaches and Practices in Indigenous Health Research: A Systematic Review Protocol (Morton Ninomiya et al., 2017)
• Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Synthesis, Translation, and Exchange (KSTE) (NCCIH, 2014)
• Indigenous Knowledge Sharing and Relationship Building through Narrative Storytelling and Creative Activities (Haines & Du, 2015)
• Indigenous Knowledge Translation Resources (Well Living House, 2012-2021)
• Knowledge Translation for Indigenous Communities (Hanson & Smylie, 2006)
• Research and Knowledge Sharing in the North (Alexandra Gabor, 2013)
• Sharing What We Know About Living a Good Life: Indigenous Approaches to Knowledge Translation (Smylie, Olding & Ziegler, 2014)
• Bringing the čupuc to life (YouTube video, 29 Sept 2022)

Proposal Writing

• Grant Proposal Writing Guide
• How to Write a Grant Proposal Step by Step (YouTube video, 2021)
• Micheal Smith Foundation webinars on Knowledge Translation and Grant Writing
• Proposal Development Workshop for Indigenous communities/organizations- free videos
• Writing implementation research grant proposals: Ten key ingredients (Proctor et al, 2012)

Literature Review

• Arctic Science and Technology Information System  (ASTIS)
• Health Evidence (Health Evidence, McMaster University, 2021)
• JRI Principles for Literature Review (Johnston Research Inc, 2017)
• Métis Health Research Database (NCCIH, Métis Centre, NAHO)

Methodology/Methods

• Aboriginal Ways Tried and True: Aboriginal Methodological Framework for Canadian Best Practices Initiative (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2015)
• Community-Based Participatory Research: A Training Manual for Community-Based Researchers (Shallwani & Mohammed, 2007)
• Community-Based Research Modules  (Trent University)
• Indigenous Research Methodologies: chuutsqa’s Story (YouTube video 3 Apr 2017)
• Participatory Research Methods with Youth  (Centre for Community-based Research)
• Resource Guide: Video Collection of Training in Community Based Research (UVicSpace)

Data Analysis

• Youth-led Community-based Research: Qualitative Data Analysis Training  (Centre for Community-based Research)

Data Sovereignty 

• A First Nations Data Governance Strategy (FNIGC, 2020)
• BC First Nations Data Governance Initiative (BCFNDGI, website)
• Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance (website)
• Data and Information Governance: A Case Study Report (FNHA, Province of BC, ISC, 2019)
• Data and Information Management: Policies and Procedures to Manage and Protect Data (BC First Nations Data Governance Strategy Engagement Sessions- materials)
• Data and Information Management: Policies and Procedures to Manage and Protect Data (BC First Nations Data Governance Strategy Engagement Sessions- webinar)
• Data Governance and Management Toolkit for Self-Governing Indigenous Governments (website)
• Data Governance: Government to Government Data Quality and Sharing Agreements  (BC First Nations Data Governance Strategy Engagement Sessions- materials)
• Data Governance: Government to Government Data Quality and Sharing Agreements  (BC First Nations Data Governance Strategy Engagement Sessions- webinar)
• Disaggregated demographic data collection in British Columbia: The grandmother perspective (British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner, 2020)
• First Nations Data Sovereignty in Canada (FNIGC, 2019)
• First Nations Information Governance Centre  (FNIGC, website)
• FNHA Data Governance Engagement Sessions (YouTube video, 15 Jul 2016)
• FNHA Data Management (FNHA, website)
• FNHA Health Information Governance (FNHA, website)
• Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA website)
• Indigenous Data Sovereignty and DRIPA: Asserting Data and Intellectual Property Ownership (BC First Nations Data Governance Strategy Engagement Sessions- materials)
• Indigenous Data Sovereignty and DRIPA: Asserting Data and Intellectual Property Ownership (BC First Nations Data Governance Strategy Engagement Sessions- webinar)
• Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Toward an Agenda (Ed. Kukutai & Taylor, 2016)
• Nindokiikayencikewin: to seek learning or Knowledges – Indigenous Knowledges & Data Governance Protocol (Indigenous Innovation Initiative, 2021)
• OCAP, First Nations Information Governance Committee (National Aboriginal Health Organization, 2007)
• The Backdrop for Development of First Nations Peoples’ Data Governance and Health Indicators (YouTube video, 12 Aug 2016)
• The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance (Carroll et al., 2020)
• Understanding the First Nations Principles of OCAP™: Our Road Map to Information Governance (YouTube video 22 Jul 2014)
• United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (website)

Ethics

• A New Era of Indigenous Research: Community-based Indigenous Research Ethics Protocols in Canada (Hayward, Sjoblom, Sinclair & Cidro, 2021)
• Best Practices to Support the Self-Determination of Indigenous Communities, Collectives, and Organizations in Health Research through a Provincial Health Research Network Environment in British Columbia, Canada (Erb T, Stelkia K, 2023)
• CIHR Guidelines for Health Research Involving Aboriginal People (CIHR, 2013)
• Government of Canada: TCPS 2 Chapter 9 Indigenous Research Ethics (Government of Canada, 2019)
• Internal Summary Report: BC Research Ethics Board Environmental Scan & Ethics Sharing Circles
• Kahnawá:ke Schools Diabetes Prevention Program (KSDPP) Code of Research Ethics
• OCAP and Information Governance  (FNIGC, website)
• Principles of Ethical Métis Research (Métis Centre, NAHO)
• UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board (BREB): Indigenous Research and Ethics Review (UBC, website)
• Weaving First Nations, Inuit, and Métis principles and values into health research processes (Mashford-Pringle A, Hiscock C, Rice EJ, Scott B, 2023)
• “What Do They Really Mean by Partnerships?” Questioning the Unquestionable Good in Ethics Guidelines Promoting Community Engagement in Indigenous Health Research (Brunger & Wall, 2016)
• Willie Ermine: What is Ethical Space  (YouTube video, 30 Aug 2011)

Indigenous Sex and Gender (ISG)

• Alternative genders in the Coast Salish world : paradox and pattern (Young, 1999)
• A recognition of being: Reconstructing native womanhood (Anderson, 2001, 2016)
• A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder (Chacaby & Plummer, 2016)
• Indigenous feminisms in Canada (Suzack, 2015)
• Indigenous men and masculinities studies: An emergent field (Anderson & Innes, 2015)
• Indigenous overrepresentation in the justice system (Department of Justice Canada, 2017)
• Journey of Indigenous Gender Identity (YouTube video, 8 Nov 2014)
• Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (Ed. Whitehead, 2020)
• Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generation (Ed. Clarke & Haraway, 2018)
• Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sex and Family (Ed. Clarke & Haraway, 2018)
• Meet the Methods Series: “What and who is Two-Spirit?” in Health Research (CIHR, 2020)
• On Decolonizing Sexuality through Critical Polyamory (Kim Tallbear, podcast)
• On Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance (Tallbear, 2020)
• Our Stories: First Peoples in Canada (Open Library)
• Regalia: Pride in Two Spirits (YouTube video 15 Nov 2015)
• Sex-discrimination in the Indian Act addressed again: Descheneaux and Yantha (Anishinabek News, 2016)
• Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (Ed. Driskill et al., 2011)
• Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization (Morgensen, 2011)
• “Two Spirit” – Injunuity (YouTube video, 11 Nov 2013)
• Woman wins 32-year fight for Indian status; argued rules were discriminatory (CBC News, 2017)
• Women are supposed to be the leaders’: intersections of gender, race and colonisation in HIV prevention with Indigenous young people (Oliver et al., 2015)

Allyship

• BC NEIHR Allyship: Consensual, Critical, and Active (YouTube video, October 2022)
• BC NEIHR Allyship: Consensual, Critical, and Active Worksheet
• Steps Toward Allyship (YouTube video, May 2023)
• Steps Towards Allyship Worksheet

Indigenous Cultural Safety

• BC NEIHR Indigenous Cultural Safety in Research (ICSR) Framework (Tara Erb & Charlotte Loppie, 2022)
• Anti-Racism Education in Canada: Best Practices (Centre for Race and Culture)
• British Columbia Institute of Agrologists’ List of Indigenous Training Courses Currently Available (website)
• First Nations Health Authority: Cultural Safety and Humility (FNHA, website)
• First Peoples Group (website)
• Indigenous Community Research Partnerships Training  (Queen’s University)
• Indigenous Cultural Safety and the Peer Review Process (BC NEIHR YouTube 16 May 2022)
• Indigenous cultural safety: a new way toward wellness (YouTube video 7 Nov 2019)
• Indigenous Perspectives Society – Centre of Excellence in Community Education – Cultural Perspectives Training (website)
• Indigenous Reconciliation Group (website)
• Nahanee Creative (mini-courses)
• National Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) Learning Series (webinar series)
• Pathways to Indigenous Equity: An Indigenous Lens on Health Systems Transformation & Research (YouTube video 3 May 2021)
• Public Health Training for Equitable Systems Change (PHESC) – New Respect Indigenous Cultural Safety (website)
• San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training (PHSA)
• Wabano Centre’s Indigenous Cultural Safety Training (website)

Indigenous Research Agreements

• Memorial University
• University of British Columbia
• University of Manitoba

Community-Based Research Examples

• Indigenous Voices in Psychedelic Therapy: Experiential Learnings from a Community-Based Group Psychedelic Therapy Program (Manson E, Ryding E, Taylor W, Peekeekoot G, Gloeckler SG, Allard P, Johnny C, Greenway KT, Dames S, 2023)

UBC 

• Indigenous Research Support Initiative (IRSI)
• The First Nations House of Learning, Longhouse
• UBC Learning Circles

UVic

• Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-led Engagement (CIRCLE)
• First Peoples House
• Indigenous Student Support Centre
• Native Students Union

UNBC

• Awards and Financial Aid for Indigenous Students
• First Nations Centre
• Indigenous Initiatives 

SFU

• Indigenous Student Centre
• Office for Aboriginal Peoples

TRU

• Cplul’kw’ten
• Indigenous Student Services
• The Gathering Place

Reports

• 2005 Transformative Change Accord
• 2011 British Columbia Tripartite Framework Agreement on First Nations Health Governance
• In Plain Sight (full report): Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s final report
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Podcasts

• Ancestral Science
• BC NEIHR: Research DE-Colonized: Ethical, Indigenous-Led Health and Wellness Research in Canada
• Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre: Love, Land & Spirit
• National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health: Mind the disruption

Additional Online Resources

• Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of seventh edition APA style (American Psychological Association, 2020)
• A Guide to the Pronunciation of Indigenous Communities and Organizations in BC
• Ahousat’s First Diabetes Wellness Retreat (2024): tee cha chitl “getting well again |to come alive” (YouTube video)
• Aims and Objectives – A Guide for Academic Writing
• BC Assembly of First Nations
• BC Stats
• BC SUPPORT Unit Indigenous knowledges for decolonized research and evaluation practices – Environmental scan of Indigenous engagement guidelines for health research and program evaluation
• Carrier Sekani Family Services: Research and Development for Researchers 
• ECO Canada Indigenous Training for Environmental Careers 
• eMentoring BC
• Developing a Research Question (YouTube video)
• Developing a Qualitative Research Question (YouTube video)
• Greenway Trails for All 2021: Identifying the inequities of active transportation in rural BC
• Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health (Reading & Wien, 2009, 2013)
• Indigenous Peoples and the Law (webinar series)
• Indigenous Services Canada
• Indigenous STEAM: land-based educational materials developed in collaboration with families, communities, educators and researchers
• National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)
• Perspectives on Patient-Oriented Research: Indigenous Perspectives (YouTube video, 4 Mar 2020)
• Repatriation in Canada: A Guide for Communities (Bourgeois, 2021)
• Research Administration Certificate – 988  (Mohawk College Certificate- Online)
• Signal Fire: 10 Calls to Action to Natural Scientists Working in Canada (Documentary)
• Statistics Canada
• Tending the Wild (PBS Documentary)
• The Bison Cultural Project (Documentary)
• Transformative Networks: How ACADRE/NEAHR Support for Graduate Students has Impacted Aboriginal Health Research in Canada  (Richmond, Martin, Dean, Castleden & Marsden, 2013)
• Well Now Podcast
• Yellowhead Institute