Volume 17 Issue 2 Editorial

Abstract

As a global population, Indigenous Peoples face multiple health barriers related to poverty, access to service, literacy weaknesses, racism and discrimination, language, geography, colonization, addictions and mental health, and the intergenerational trauma of colonial assaults and aggressions. To address these problems, and to attempt to answer the above question, the IJIH seeks to provide a voice in the academic publishing world to community-driven research and re- searchers who work, as much as possible, in western colonial academic systems, based in Indigenous paradigms.