Indigenous Resources: Journals

Mawqatmuti’kw (We All Live Together) is a journal published jointly by IKANAWTIKET Environmental Incorporated and the Maritime Aboriginal Aquatic Resources Secretariate (MAARS).

Indigenous social determinants of health, including the ongoing impacts of colonization, contribute to increased rates of chronic disease and a health equity gap for Indigenous people. We sought to examine the health care experiences of Indigenous people with type 2 diabetes to understand how such determinants are embodied and enacted during clinical encounters.

Attitudes and assumptions of oral health care providers towards Aboriginal people may unknowingly and unintentionally contribute to the inequitable provision of oral health care services, ultimately leading to poor oral health outcomes among this population. Integrating cultural safety into oral health care has the potential to reduce such disparities and ultimately contribute to the improvement of the oral health of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.

The article analyzes representations of reconciliation in the mainstream Canadian print media before and over the life of the commission, concluding that the commission during its national events did much to promote a relatively quiescent notion of reconciliation that in fact displaced conceptions with more substantive connotations of the return of land, jurisdiction, and resources