The Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing is a peer-reviewed, open-access, scholarly online journal that shares multi-disciplinary indigenous knowledge and research experience amongst indigenous health professionals, leaders, researchers and community members. The journal publishes original, informative and scholarly articles on the broadly defined topic of indigenous wellbeing. Serving as a forum for the clarification and exchange of ideas, the journal features articles on projects that make a significant impact on our understanding of indigenous wellbeing (see more).
Volume 8, Issue 2
‘The indigenous perspective needs to be heard loud as the thunder.’ Catherine BearEnemy (Navajo Nation). Volume 8 Issue 2 brings thought provoking knowledge and wisdom from 5 countries and 23 authors, including 11 unique Indigenous peoples and their collaborators. There is a strong focus from the Pacific in 7 of the 9 articles, with 4 of these written in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Topics of interest are; from Hawai’i with data as the New Land; in Dunedin Food Environments for Pacific university students; from Bora Bora knowledge of the link between soil and gut biome and healing potentials; from Aotearoa hope for families impacted by methamphetamine use; and modelling health and wellbeing in the Cook Islands. From the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan peoples in Canada impacts from Health Talks with Metis elders; discussion from a guest in Tkaronto in Canada, territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and Mississaugas of the Credit—Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant territory, on the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on 2-Spirit, Indigiqueer, Trans, and Gender Diverse (2SIQT+) Indigenous Young People. From the lands of the Waikato-Tainui iwi confederation, encompassing both the Counties Manukau and Waikato regions of Aotearoa New Zealand, understanding childhood immunisation rates; and in our Mahi Toi creative works section, a poem of a young Māori man seeking wellbeing in the mental health system in Aotearoa.
