It’s time to bring indigenous leaders and experts into our policy solutions and put them at the helm. Perhaps then we can reduce the inequities that indigenous youth in this country live with every day. Manitoba politician, author and musician Wab Kinew has been telling scientists and health care professionals for years that culture is medicine. Policy-makers are finally starting to pay attention to the connection between culture and health and how that may offer ways to address health crises among Canada’s indigenous peoples. I am a non-indigenous scientist who works closely with indigenous communities.

Source: thestar May 27, 2016 13:41 UTC