Indigenous Health Researchers Database

Selected Publications

Bombay, A., McQuaid, R.J., Young, J., Sinha, V., Currie, V., Anisman, H., & Matheson, K. (2020). Familial attendance at Indian Residential School and subsequent involvement in the child welfare system among Indigenous adults born during the Sixties Scoop era. First Peoples Child & Family Review, 15(1), 62-79

Paul, J., McQuaid, R.J., Hopkins, C., Perri, A., Stewart, S., Matheson, K., Anisman, H., & Bombay, A. (2022). Relations between bullying and distress among youth living in First Nations communities: Assessing direct and moderating effects of culture-related variables. Transcultural Psychiatry, OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615221109359

Matheson, K., Seymour, A., Landry, J., Ventura, K., Arsenault, E., & Anisman, H. (2022). Canada's colonial genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A review of psychosocial and neurobiological processes linking trauma and intergenerational outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6455.

Selected Publications

Anuik, J. (2018). Language, place, and kinship ties: Past and present necessities for Métis education. In M. Rutherdale, K. Abel, & P. W. Lackenbauer (Eds.), Roots of entanglement: Essays in the history of Native-newcomer relations (pp. 209-229). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Anuik, J. (2015). Applying First Nations holistic lifelong learning to the study of crime. in education, 21(1), 2-11.

Anuik, J. (2019). If you say I am Indian, what will you do? History and self-identification at humanity’s intersection. In S. Carr-Stewart (ed.), Knowing the past, facing the future: Indigenous education in Canada (pp. 106-117). Purich Books

Anuik, J. (2021). Practicing reconciliation in a Canadian book club. In M. Keynes, H. A. Elmersjö, D. Lindmark, & B. Norlin (Eds.), Historical justice and history education (pp. 317-339). Palgrave Macmillan. 

Anuik, J. (2021). The right to self-identify as Métis at school. In Y. Boyer & L. Chartrand (Eds.), Métis rising: Living our present through the power of our past (pp. 50-65). Purich Books.

Selected Publications

Batal, M., Johnson-Down, L., Moubarac, J.-C., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T. et al. (2018). Quantifying associations of the dietary share of ultra-processed foods with overall diet quality in First Nations peoples in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. Public Health Nutrition, 21(Sp. Iss. 1), 103-113.

Lavigne-Robichaud, M., Moubarac, J.-C., Lantagne-Lopez, S., Johnson-Down, L., Batal, M. et al. (2018). Diet quality indices in relation to metabolic syndrome in an Indigenous Cree (Eeyouch) population in northern Québec, Canada. Public Health Nutrition, 21(Sp. Iss. 1), 172-180.

Batal, M., Kenny, T.A., Johnson-Down, L., Chan, L., Sadik, T., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Willows, N. (2022). Development of an optimal grocery list based on actual intake from a cross-sectional study of First Nations adults in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. https://doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2020-0950

Blanchet, R., Willows, N., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Salmon Reintroduction Initiatives, & Batal, M. (2022). Enhancing cultural food security among the Syilx Okanagan adults with the reintroduction of Okanagan sockeye salmon. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 47(2),124-133. doi: 10.1139/apnm-2021-0321.

Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Batal, M., Sadik, T., Tikhonov, C., Ing, A., & Barwin, L. (2021). The First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (2008-2018) – rationale, design, methods and lessons learned. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 8-9.

Blanchet, R., Batal, M., Johnson-Down, L., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Reintroduction Initiatives, & Willows, N. (2021). An Indigenous food sovereignty initiative is positively associated with well-being and cultural connectedness in a survey of Syilx Okanagan adults in British Columbia, Canada. BMC Public Health, 21, 1405. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11229-2

Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Ing, A., Berti, P., Sadik, T., & Johnson-Down, L. (2021). Associations of health status and diabetes among First Nations Peoples living on-reserve in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 154–167 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00488-6

Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Fediuk, K., Ing, A., Berti, P., Sadik, T., & Johnson-Down, L. (2021). Nutrient adequacy and nutrient sources of adults among ninety-two First Nations communities across Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 29–40 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00490-y

Marushka, L., Batal, M., Tikhonov, C., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Chan, H.M. (2021). Importance of fish for food and nutrition security among First Nations in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 64–80 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00481-z

Chan, H.M., Singh, K., Batal, M., Marushka, L., Tikhonov, C., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., & Fediuk, K. (2021). Levels of Metals and Persistent Organic Pollutants in Traditional Foods consumed by First Nations Living on Reserve in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 81–96 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00495-7

Marushka, L., Hu, X., Tikhonov, C., Batal, M., Sadik, T., Schwartz, H., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Chan, H.M. (2021). Dietary exposure to persistent organic pollutants is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes among First Nations in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 168–182 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00484-w

Schwartz, H., Marushka, L., Batal, M., Chan, H.M., Sadik, T., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., & Tikhonov, C. (2021). Pharmaceuticals in source waters of First Nation reserves of Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 112, 133–153 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00499-3

Kenny, T., Little, M., Lemieux, T., Griffin, J.P., Wesche, S., Ota, Y., Batal, M., Chan, H.M., & Lemire, M (2020). The retail food sector and Indigenous Peoples in high-income countries: A systematic scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(23), 8818.

Blanchet, R., Willows, N., Johnson, S., Okanagan Nation Salmon Reintroduction Initiatives, & Batal, M. (2020). Traditional food, health, and diet quality in Syilx Okanagan adults in British Columbia, Canada. Nutrients, 12(4), 927.

Domingo, A., Springer, J., Wittman, H., Gruhn, M., Chan, H.M., Tikhonov, C., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T., & Batal, M. (2020). Predictors of household food insecurity and relationship with obesity in First Nations communities in British Columbia, Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario. Public Health Nutrition.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1368980019004889

Johnson-Down, L., Willows, N., Kenny, T.A., Ing, A., Fediuk, K., Sadik, T., Chan, H.M., & Batal, M. (2019). Optimization modeling to improve the diets of First Nations individuals. Journal of Nutritional Science, 8, e31.

Batal, M., & Decelles, S. (2019). A scoping review of obesity among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Journal of Obesity, Article ID 9741090.

Marushka, L., Kenny, T.A., Batal, M., Cheung, W.W.L., Fediuk, K., Golden, C.D., Salomon, A.K. et al. (2019). Potential impacts of climate-related decline of seafood harvest on nutritional status of coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0211473.

Willows, N., Johnson-Down, L., Kenny, T.A., Chan, H.M., & Batal, M. (2018). Modeling optimal diets for quality and cost: Examples from Inuit and First Nations communities in Canada. Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism, 44(7), 696-703.

Selected Publications

Corntassel, J., & Gaudry, A. (2014). Insurgent education and Indigenous-centred research: Opening new pathways to community resurgence. In C. Etmanski, B.L. Hall, & T. Dawson (eds.), Learning and teaching community-based research: Linking pedagogy to practice (Chapter 8). De Gruyter Press.

Corntassel, J., & Hardbarger, T. (2019). Educate to perpetuate: Land-based pedagogies and community resurgence. International Review of Education, 65, 87-116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-018-9759-1

von der Porten, S., Corntassel, J., & Mucina, D. (2019). Indigenous nationhood and herring governance: Strategies for the reassertion of Indigenous authority and inter-Indigenous solidarity regarding marine resources. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 15(1), 62-74.

Corntassel, J., Edgar, R., Monchalin, R., & Newman, C. (2020). Everyday Indigenous resurgence during COVID-19: A social media situation report. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(4), 403-405.

Corntassel, J. (2020). Restorying Indigenous landscapes: Community regeneration and resurgence. In N.J. Turner (ed.), Plants, people, and places: The roles of ethnobotany and ethnecology in Indigenous Peoples’ land rights in Canada and beyond (Chapter 20). McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Corntassel, J. (2021). Life beyond the state: Regenerating Indigenous international relations and everyday challenges to settler colonialism. Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2021(1), 71-99.

Drywater-Whitekiller, V., & Corntassel, J. (2022). Learning on and from the land: Indigenous perspectives on university land-based learning pedagogies. In C. Pewewardy, A. Lees, & R. Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn (eds.), Unsettling settler colonial education: The transformational Indigenous praxis model. Teachers College Press.

Selected Publications

Rapinski, M., Cuerrier, A., Harris, C., Lemire, M., Elders of Ivujivik, & Elders of Kangiqsujuaq. (2021). Our sea, our health. Avataq Cultural Institute, Montreal. 

Cuerrier, A., Clark, C., Samuel-Dwyer, F., & Rapinski, M. (2021). Nunatsiavut, 'Our beautiful land': Inuit landscape ethnoecology in Labrador, Canada. Botany (in press). 

Mardones, V., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). The biocultural context for development of a community-based enterprise: Nunatsiavut Inuit Knowledge and perspectives on the use of medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, 1-13. https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/2863

Elliott, H. L., Mulrennan, M. E., & Cuerrier, A. (2021). Resurgence, refusal and reconciliation through a food movement organization. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD), 10(3), 265-285. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2021.103.009. 

McCune, L. M., & Cuerrier, A. (2020). Traditional plant medicines and the protection of traditional harvesting sites. In N.J. Turner (Ed.), Plants, people and places: The roles of ethnobotany and ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' land rights in Canada and beyond (pp. 151-168). McGill-Queen's University Press.

Norton, C. H., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). People and plants in Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada): Examining plants as a foundational aspect of culture in the Subarctic. Economic Botany, 36 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12231-021-09530-7). 

Turner, N.J., Cuerrier, A., & Joseph, L. (2022). Well grounded: Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge, ethnobiology and sustainability. People and Nature, 4(3), 627-651.

Elliott, H.L., Mulrennan, M.E., & Cuerrier, A. (2022). ‘We have a lot of (un)learning to do’: Whiteness and decolonial prefiguration in a food movement organization. Settler Colonial Studies, 13(2), 194-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2022.2077900

Joseph, L., Cuerrier, A., & Mathews, D. (2021). Shifting narratives, recognizing resilience: New anti-oppressive and decolonial approaches to ethnobotanical research with Indigenous communities in Canada. Botany, 100(2). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0111

Turner, N.J., & Cuerrier, A. (2021). ‘Frog’s umbrella’ and ‘ghost’s face powder’: The cultural roles of mushrooms and other fungi for Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Botany, 100(2). https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2021-0052

Norton, C. H., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). People and plants in Nunatsiavut (Labrador, Canada): Examining plants as a foundational aspect of culture in the Subarctic. Economic Botany, 75(3-4), 287-301 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12231-021-09530-7).

Elliott, H. L., Mulrennan, M. E., &  Cuerrier, A. (2021). Resurgence, refusal and reconciliation through a food movement organization. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD), 10(3), 265-285. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2021.103.009.

Mardones, V., Cuerrier, A., & Hermanutz, L. (2021). Developing a community-based enterprise: Nunatsiavut Inuit knowledge and perspectives on the use of medicinal plant Rhodiola rosea. Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 22, 1-13.

Semotiuik, A.J., Excurra, E., Colunga-García Marin, P., Ahmad, L., & Cuerrier, A. (2022). Ancestral traditions of the future: Where is traditional knowledge and practice preservation directed? Ethnobotany Research and Applications, 23, 25.

Cuerrier, A., Clark, C., Samuel-Dwyer, F., & Rapinski, M. (2022). Nunatsiavut, 'Our beautiful land': Inuit landscape ethnoecology in Labrador, Canada. Botany, 100(2), 159-174.