Indigenous Health

Welcome to the library research guide on Indigenous Health!

This guide offers curated links to essential tools and resources for researching the health and wellness of Native American and Indigenous communities in North and South America. You'll find information on public health initiatives, traditional health practices, scholarly research and specialized care tailored to Indigenous populations.

Use the tabs on the left to explore resources by topic, including background information, scholarly articles, books, databases, and guidelines for conducting respectful research. We hope this guide contributes to a deeper understanding of its cultural and historical contexts related to Indigenous health.

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Keywords To Consider: Native, Native American, American Indian, Indian, First Nations People, Alaskan Native, Indigenous.

• Also try searching by tribe, nation, band or community

Boolean Operators

Boolean operators such as AND, OR, and NOT, can aid your search.

AND will return results with that contain both words entered in the search: such as Indigenous AND Canada

OR will return results with either search term used : Native OR Indian

• This can be helpful when searching for synonyms or related terms.

Quotation marks will search for an exact term: "Indigenous Rights"

Parenthesis can help improve a search by allowing for multiple search filters: (Native American OR First Nations) AND Religion

Truncation can serve to widen a search with a wildcard symbol "*", any variation of the root will be gathered: Photo* will return Photograph, Photographer, Photography, Photosynthesis