Indigenous Health Researchers Database

Selected Publications

Fast, E., & Kovach, M. (2019). Community relationships within Indigenous methodologies. In S. Windchief & T. San Pedro (eds.), Applying Indigenous research methods: Storying with peoples and communities. Routledge.

Fast, E., & Collin-Vézina, D. (2019). Historical trauma, race-based trauma, and resilience of Indigenous Peoples: A literature review. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 14(1), 166-81.

Fast, E., & Drouin-Gagné, M.-È. (2019). We need to get batter at this! Pedagogies for truth telling about colonial violence. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies, 10(1), 95-118.

Fast, E., Lefebvre, M., Reid, C., Deer, B.W., Swiftwolfe, D., Clark, M., Boldo, V., Mackie, J., & Mackie, R. (2021). Restoring our roots: Land-based community by and for Indigenous youth. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 16(2), 120-139.

Selected Publications

Giles, A.R., Stewart-Withers, R., Hapeta, J., & Rynne, S. (2024). Analyzing data in community-based research with Indigenous communities: Indigenous and settler researchers’ perspectives on “unlocking” the next level. In K.A. Rich, R. Smith, & A.R. Giles (eds.), Participatory research in sport and physical activity (Ch. 14). Routledge.

Brooks-Cleator, L., & Giles, A.R. (2020). A postcolonial discourse analysis of community stakeholders’ perspectives on supporting urban Indigenous older adults to age well in Ottawa, Canada. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 11, 1-22. doi:10.18584/iipj.2020.11.1.9443.

Contini, N., Giles, A.R., Giesbrecht, G., & Raddi, T. (2021). The adaptation of the Beyond Cold Water Bootcamp Course for Inuvialuit communities in Northwest Territories, Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 80(1), 1969744.

Lawford, K.M., Bourgeault, I.L., & Giles, A.R. (2019). “This policy sucks and it’s stupid:” Mapping maternity care for First Nations women on reserves in Manitoba, Canada. Health Care for Women International, 40(12), 1302-1335.

Millington, R., Hayhurst, L., Giles, A.R., & Rynne, S. (2020). ‘Back in the day, you just opened your mine and on you went’: Extractives industry perspectives on sport for development in Indigenous communities in Canada. Journal of Sport Management, 34(6), 521-532.

Ollier, M., Giles, A.R., Etter, M., Ruttan, J., Elanik, N., Goose, R., & Ipana, E. (2020). Promoting a culturally safe evaluation of an on-the-land wellness program in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Arctic, 73(3), 312-325.

Rajwani, Y., Giles, A.R., Forde, S. (2022). Canadian National Sport Organizations’ responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Calls to Action and settler silence. Sociology of Sport Journal, 39(2), 205-215.

Roberts, C., Darroch, F.E., Giles, A.R., & van Bruggen, R. (2021). Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C-OVID-19: Adaptations for fly-in and fly-out mental health providers during COVID-19. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 80(1), 1935133.

van Luijk, N., Giles, A.R., Millington, R., & Hayhurst, L. (2021). The extractives industry: (un)likely and (un)welcome partners in regenerating Indigenous cultures in Canada? Annals of Leisure Research, 24(1), 72-91.

Selected Publications

Johnson, S., Rice, R., & Chuckry, J. (2020). Wise Indigenous community development principles. In S. Todd & J. Drolet (eds.)., Community practice and social development in social work (pp. 1-26). Springer.

Johnson, S., & Sparrow, C. (2019). Pulling together in an Indigenous cultural revitalization canoe: Indigenous women’s water and land-based research methodologies in action. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 41(1), 9-37.

Archibald, J., Johnson, S., Sparrow, C., & Lyall, A. (2021). Editorial: Awakening the spirit: Indigenous culture and language revitalization through land, water, and sky. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 4(1), 1-8.

Howe, E.R., Johnson, S., & Te Momo, F. (2021). Effective Indigenization of curriculum in Canada and New Zealand: Towards culturally responsive pedagogies. In Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 16(1), 23-39.

Morin, F., Watt, J., Adamov Ferguson, K., Longclaws, B., Campbell, R., … Johnson, S. (2025). An arts-based decolonizing learning design using soil and sound: Insights from multiliteracies theory. In B. Peters (ed.), Arts-based multiliteracies for teaching and learning (pp. 47-74). IGI Global Scientific Publishing.

Selected Publications

Mashford-Pringle, A., & Pavagadhi, K. (2020). Using OCAP and IQ as frameworks to address a hestory of trauma in Indigenous health research. AMA Journal of Ethics, 22(10), E868-873.

Mashford-Pringle, A., & Shawanda, A. (2023). Using the Medicine Wheel as theory, conceptual framework, analysis, and evaluation tool in health research. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 3, 100251.

Mashford-Pringle, A., Danard, D., & Di Ruggiero, E. (2025). Zaagi’idiwin, Mnaadendiwin: Love, respect through the creation of new respect online Indigenous cultural safety program. Health Promotion International, 40(2), daaf042.

Mashford-Pringle, A., Skura, C., Stutz, S., Yohathasan, T. (2021). What we heard? Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19: Supplementary report for the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada’s Report on the State of Public Health in Canada. Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, University of Toronto.

Arpin, E., Gauffin, K., Kerr, M., Hjern, A., Mashford-Pringle, A., Barros, A., Rajmil, L. et al. (2021). Climate change and child health inequality: A review of reviews. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 10896.

Bowra, A., & Mashford-Pringle, A. (2021). More than a structure: Exploring the relationship between Indigenous homemaking practices and wholistic wellbeing. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2, 100007.

Cunningham-Reimann, S., Doshi, A., Stutz, S., Tjong, G.B., & Mashford-Pringle, A. (2025). Flipping data on its head: Differing conceptualisations of data and the implications for actioning Indigenous data sovereignty principles. Global Public Health, 20(1), 2450395.

Hiscock, E.C., Stutz, S., Mashford-Pringle, A., Tan, S., Scott, B., Oblin-Moses, L., & Skura, C. (2022). An environmental scan of Indigenous Patient Navigator programs in Ontario. Healthcare Management Forum, 35(2), 99-104. DOI; 10.1177/08404704211067659.

Maddox, R., Blais, G., Mashford-Pringle, A., Monchalin, R., Firestone, M., Ziegler, C., Norton Ninomiya, M., & Smylie, J. (2021). Reviewing health service and program evaluations in Indigenous contexts: A systematic review. American Journal of Evaluation, 42(3), 332-353.

Milligan, C., Mantla, R., Blake, G., Zoe, J.B., Steinwand, T., Greenland, S., Keats, S., Nash, S., Kakfwi-Scott, K., Veldhorst, G., Mashford-Pringle, A. et al. (2022). Health system learning with Indigenous communities: A study protocol for a two-eyed seeing review and multiple case study. Health Research Policy and Systems, 20, 65.

Shapiro, G.D., Sheppard, A.J., Mashford-Pringle, A., Bushnik, T., Kramer, M.S., Kaufman, J.S., & Yang, S. (2021). Housing conditions and adverse birth outcomes among Indigenous people in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 903-911

Tjong, G.B., Stutz, S., Yohathasan, T., & Mashford-Pringle, A. (2022). Developing an Indigenous cultural safety micro-credential: Initial findings from a training designed for public health professionals in southern Ontario. Global Public Health, 17(12), 3386-3398. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2022.2076146.

Webb, D., & Mashford-Pringle, A. (2022). Incorporating Indigenous content into K-12 curriculum: Supports for teachers in provincial and territorial policy and post-secondary education spaces. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 198, 55-73.

Webb, D., Stutz, S., Hiscock, C., Bowra, A., Butsang, T., Tan, S., Scott-Kay, B., & Mashford-Pringle, A. (2023). Indigenous cultural safety trainings for healthcare professionals working in Ontario, Canada: Context and considerations for healthcare institutions. Health Services Insights, 16, 11786329231169939.

Selected Publications

Richmond, C., & Dokis, B. (2023). “We make it work because we must”: Narrating the creation of an urban Indigenous food bank in London, Ontario, Canada. Land, 12(11), 2028.

Richmond, C., Bezner Kerr, R., Neufeld, H., Steckley, M., Wilson, K., & Dokis, B. (2021). Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways. The Canadian Geographer, 65(1), 97-109.

Richmond, C., Big-Canoe, K., Abram, H., Mandawe, E., Mohamed, R., & Reitmeier, V. (2022). The health impacts of social distancing among Indigenous people in Ontario during the first wave of COVID-19. International Journal of Indigenous Health, 17(1), 28-4.

Richmond, C., Castleden, H., & Gabel, C. (2021). Practicing self-determination to protect Indigenous health in COVID-19: Lessons for this pandemic and similar futures. In A.G.J. Crooks et al. (eds.), COVID-19 and similar futures. Global perspectives on health geography (pp. 307-312). Springer, Cham.

Richmond, C., Steckley, M., Neufeld, H., Bezner Kerr, R., Wilson, K., & Dokis, B. (2020). First Nations food environments: Exploring the role of place, income, and social connection. Current Developments in Nutrition, 4(8), nzaa108. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa108.

Ambtman-Smith, V., & Richmond, C. (2020). Reimagining Indigenous spaces of healing: Institutional environmental repossession. Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health, 1(1), 27-36.

Ambtman-Smith, V.N., Crawford, A., D’Hondt, J., Lindstone, W., Linklater, R., Longboat, D., & Richmond, C. (2024). Incorporating First Nations, Inuit and Métis traditional healing spaces within a hospital context: A place-based study of three unique spaces within Canada’s oldest and largest mental health hospital. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(3), 282.

Ambtman-Smith, V.N., Linklater, R., & Richmond, C.A.M. (2025). “They’re not just fire pits, they’re Sacred Fires”: Traditional healing spaces as sites of anticolonial resistance in a Toronto hospital. Social Science & Medicine, 382, 118365.

Nightingale, E., & Richmond, C. (2022). Reclaiming land, identity and mental wellness in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(12), 7285.

Nightingale, E., & Richmond, C.A.M. (2022). Building structures of environmental repossession to reclaim land, self-determination and Indigenous wellness. Health & Place, 73, 102725.

Nightingale, E., & Richmond, C.A. (2021). Reclaiming Mountain Lake: Applying environmental repossession in Biigtigong Nishnaabeg Territory, Canada. Social Science & Medicine, 272, 113706.