Indigenous Health Researchers Database

Selected Publications

Blackstock, C. (2019). Revisiting the breath of life theory. The British Journal of Social Work, 49(4), 854-859

Blackstock, C. (2020). Indigenous child welfare legislation: A historical change or another paper tiger? First Peoples Child & Family Review, 14(1), 5-8

Blackstock, C., & Palmater, P. (2025). Clash actions: Indigenous Peoples’ human rights and class actions. Genealogy, 9(4), 122.

Blackstock, C., Bamblett, M., & Black, C. (2020). Indigenous ontology, international law and the application of the Convention to the over-representation of Indigenous children in out of home care in Canada and Australia. Child Abuse & Neglect, 110(Part I), 104587.

McQuaid, R.J., Schwartz, F.D., Blackstock, C., Matheson, K., Anisman, H., & Bombay, A. (2022). Parent-child separations and mental health among First Nations and Métis Peoples in Canada: Links to intergenerational residential school attendance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6877.

Selected Publications

Freeman, B. (2022). Soup days and decolonization: Indigenous pathways to anti-oppressive practice and reconciliation. In D. Baines, N. Clark, & B. Bennett (eds.), Doing anti-oppressive social work, 4t edition: Rethinking theory and practice (pp. 207-221). Fernwood Publishing.

Freeman, B., & Van Katwyk, T. (2020). Navigating the waters: Understanding allied relationships through a two row research paradigm. Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 9(1), 60-76.

Coleman, D., Debicki, K., & Freeman, B. (eds.). (2026). Deyohahá:ge: Sharing the river of life. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Wright, A.L., Butt, M.L., Pace, J., Freeman, B., & FOTNG Steering Committee. (2025). Relational approaches to recruitment during and after the pandemic: Strategies for community-led research initiatives with Indigenous communities in southern Ontario. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24, 1-10.

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

Bene Watts, S., Gauthier, B., Erickson, A.C., Morrison, J., Sebastian, M., Gillman, L. … McCormick, R., et al. (2024). A mild phenotype associated with KCNQ1p.V205M mediated long QT syndrome in First Nations children of northern British Columbia: Effect of additional variants and considerations for management. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 12, 1394105.

McCormick, R. (2020). Indigenous North American healing. In R. Moodley & E. Lee (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of race, culture and mental health (Chapter 40). Routledge.

Ansloos, J., Fellner, K., Goodwill, A., Stewart, S., Mushquash, C., McCormick, R., Harder, H. (2019) Indigenous mental health training in psychology: Understanding the challenges and next steps. Psynopsis, 1.

Ansloos, J., Stewart, S., Fellner, K., Goodwill, A., Graham, H., McCormick, R., Harder, H., & Mushquash, C. (2019). Indigenous peoples and professional training in psychology in Canada. Canadian Psychology, 60(4), 265-280

Brussoni, M., George, M.A., Jin, A., Amram, O., & McCormick, R. (2018). Hospitalizations due to unintentional transport injuries among Aboriginal population of British Columbia, Canada: Incidence, changes over time and ecological analysis of risk markers. PLOS ONE 13(2), e0193218.

Huisman, L.-A., Bene Watts, S., Arbour, L., & McCormick, R. (2020). Understanding the personal and community impact of long QT syndrome: A perspective from Gitxsan women. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 29(4), 562-573.

Selected Publications

Evans, A., Quinn, A., Blackstock, C., Trocmé, N., Racine, N., Park, J., & Antwi-Boasiako, K. (2025). Rates and reasons for hospitalization of children and youth with foster home experience: A pan-Canadian cohort study. Paediatrics & Child Health, 30(supp.2), pxaf116.081.

Fallon, B., Houston, E., Black, T., Lefebre, R., Filippelli, J., Joh-Carnella, N., & Trocmé, N. (2021). Mashkiwenmi-daa Noojimowin: Let’s have strong minds for the healing (First Nations Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect – 2018). Child Welfare Research Portal.

Fallon, B., Lefebvre, R., Trocmé, N., Richard, K., Héile, S., Montgomery, H.M., Bennett, M. et al. (2021). Denouncing the continued overrepresentation of First Nations children in Canadian child welfare: Findings from the First Nations/Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2019. Assembly of First Nations.

Sinha, V., Trocmé, N., Fallon, B., & MacLaurin, B. (2013). Understanding the investigation-stage overrepresentation of First Nations in the child welfare system: An analysis of the First Nations component of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect 2008. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37(10), 821-31.

Vine, C., Doucet, M., Trocmé, N., & Fallon, B. (2022). Addressing child maltreatment in Canada: What have we learned. In R. Alaggia & C. Vine (eds.), Cruel but not unusual: Violence in families in Canada, 3rd edition (pp. 349-404). Wilfrid Laurier University Press.