Module 2: Key Guiding Documents

Welcome to Module 2 of the Indigenous Community Research Partnerships (ICRP) online open education training resource. This resource is designed to assist researchers who are new to research in partnerships with Inuit, Métis and First Nations (“Indigenous”) communities, or who are researchers-in-training, to:

• Operationalize required regulatory policy requirements and research directives;
• Ensure equitable inclusion of Indigenous and Western-oriented knowledge in research systems;
• And, in the case of Indigenous-specific enquiry, to privilege or give primacy to Indigenous ways of knowing and doing.

Module 2 will guide you to examine the link between strength and continuity in societies to health and wellness, and introduce you to some key guiding documents: the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report.   In module 2, you will:

• Define and distinguish the connections between the strengths and continuity in societies to the health and wellness of communities and individuals;
• Demonstrate understandings of key guiding documents in Indigenous health and wellness;
• Recognize how the guiding documents are important to research.

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