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Indigenous Health: BRAID

Building Relationships for Anti-racist Indigenous Development (BRAID) Network for Health Educators

The BRAID network serves to provide education, training, and a sense of community to promote anti-racist practice within the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences (RFHS)

Understanding Racism, Settler Colonialism, Power and Privilege

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
Indigenous Action Media. (2014). Accomplices not allies: Abolishing the ally industrial complex
CCNPPS|NCCHPP (2020). Understanding the role of privilege in relation to public health ethics and practice (video) 10 mins
Dr. Stephanie Nixon discusses how privilege is poorly understood in health systems
Nixon, S.A. (2019). The coin model of privilege and critical allyship: Implications for health. BMC Public Health 19, 1637
Final Report on Sinclair Inquest, and why the Death was Homicide
Response from the family of Brian Sinclair and counsel for the Sinclair family with link to the inquest report
For Brian Sinclair
Prepared for the Brian Sinclair Working Group. Provides more resources and reports related to racism in health care
Sinclair, N. (2021). Vandalism is in the eye of the beholder - Destruction of statues connected to actual violence visited on Indigenous people
Winnipeg Free Press article
Loreto, N. (2020). The Indian Act in Plain Language.
Reading, C. & Wien, F. (2009). Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health
Diffey, L. (2021). Moving past the headlines: Are you ready to take on Canada’s colonial problems? Christian Medical and Dental Association of Canada
Stamborski, A., Zimmermann, N., & Gregory, B. Scaffolded Antiracist Resources

Self-Reflection in Anti-Racism

Cariou, W. (2020). On Critical Humility. Studies in American Indian Literatures 32(3), 1-12
NOTE: Requires UM NET ID to access
Turtle Lodge. (2021). Episode 7: Wolf (Humility) | The Seven Sacred Laws (video) 3 mins.

White Benevolence by Amanda Gebhard (Editor); Sheelah McLean (Editor); Verna St. Denis (Editor)

What We're Reading

The Medicine Chest by Jarol Boan
Structures of Indifference by Mary Jane Logan McCallum; Adele Perry;
Call Number: Indig H WX 153 M478 2018 Donated by the authors
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Indigenous Writes: A guide to First Nations, Metis & Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
NOTE: Also available as an audio book. Just look for a copy online at your public library if you want to hear the author read her book. A beautiful way to enjoy her stories!!!
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad; Robin DiAngelo (foreward)
Tricky Grounds by Candace Brunette-Debassige
It's All about the Land by Taiaiake Alfred; Ann Rogers (Editor); Pamela Palmater (Foreword)

The Work of Dismantling Racism and Institutional Transformation

Government of British Columbia. (2020). In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in B.C. Health Care

Investigation Report Concerning the Death of Joyce Echaquan

Report in English

A citizen’s guide to reconciliation [Audio Podcast]

Applying Anti-Racism in Curriculum/Teaching in Health Education

Welcome to the BRAID Network

Contact us for further information or to join the mailing list. We host workshops and meet regularly braid@umanitoba.ca

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation - Sept 30

Pamphlet for 2022 by BRAID

Dr. Peter Bryce's report titled The Story of A National Crime (1922)

Videos

5 Things You Need to Know about Truth & Reconciliation (3 mins)
We Were Children -- Options to view via UM NFB subscription or free for everyone on CBC Gems
Muffins for Granny -- Options to view excerpt on Youtube or DVD from NJM Library
Our Stories...Our Strength survivor stories

Interview with Michelle Good, author (20 mins)

Self-Guided Anti-Racism Walking Tours

The North-West Is Our Mother by Jean Teillet

More books about Métis People

Calls for Justice: MMIWG

Annie McDermot Tour

Annie of Red River [podcast]

This Place: 150 Years Retold

Mashkiki Gitigaan, the Traditional Medicine Garden.

Learning More, Doing More

Read, Watch, Listen!
SCO's curated list of books, movies, and podcasts. Learning starts here with this great list from Southern Chiefs' Organization in Manitoba.
Groundworkforchange.org
Groundworkforchange.org is designed to provide access to information to help non-Indigenous/settler peoples grow relationships with Indigenous peoples that are rooted in solidarity and justice.
The Winnipeg Boldness Project
The Anti-Oppression Network
Tools and resources to re-evaluate, unlearn, disrupt and transform cycles of oppression.
Canadian Reconciliation Barometer
Abas, M. (2021). Fire of determination burns at legislature encampment. Winnipeg Free Press.

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Indigenous Health Liaison Librarian
Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library,
University of Manitoba, Bannatyne Campus
727 McDermot Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R3E 3P5
NJM Library is located next to Health Sciences Centre (HSC)

Subjects: Family Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Indigenous Health