‘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.