Indigenous knowledge can help make health care more sustainable in the North, study says – CBC

Jan 14, 2025

New research paper uses sharing circle held with Indigenous elders in the N.W.T.

A new research paper based on interviews with elders across the N.W.T. says Indigenous traditional knowledge could help make the circumpolar health care system more environmentally sustainable.

Nicole Redvers is a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in the N.W.T. and the primary author of the paper recently published in the Lancet Planetary Health journal. She is also an associate professor and director of Indigenous Planetary Health at Western University.

The team of researchers interviewed six Indigenous elders in the N.W.T. in February 2023 about land-based knowledge, their experience of colonialism, and how northern health-care systems have become largely disconnected from ideas about the environment and planetary health.

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