Module 1: Introduction to Important Concepts

Welcome to Module 1 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 1 will introduce you to the definitions of important concepts used to discuss research in relation to Indigenous people.  In module 1, you will:

• Identify definitions of concepts used in the training resource;
• Demonstrate understandings of the inequitable health and wellness burdens of Indigenous people;
• Recognize the history of research “on” Indigenous people;
• Conclude that the health and wellness needs of Indigenous people are linked to a failure of our research systems.

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