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This article discusses transformations underway within Indigenous health in northern British Columbia and Canada. We highlight two organizations that are working to create ethical space and cultural safety at the intersections of Indigenous knowledge about health and wellness, Western medicine, and healthcare services for Indigenous peoples in Canada. The article argues that the cultural, organizational, and systemic transformations necessary to address the deep and ongoing health inequities experienced by Indigenous populations should be rooted in Indigenous knowledges and should prioritize Indigenous voices, values, and concepts. Cultural safety, ethical space, and Two-Eyed Seeing are three examples of ideas anchored in Indigenous knowledges that speak to relationships at the interface of different systems of knowledge. We offer some examples of how a public health knowledge translation centre and a regional health service delivering organization are actualizing these concepts in their work nationally and regionally in northern British Columbia, Canada.

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This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Abstract: This commentary explores the relationships between land, knowledge, and health for Indigenous peoples. Indigenous knowledge is fundamentally relational, linked to the land, language and the intergenerational transmission of songs, ceremonies, protocols, and ways of life. Colonialism violently disrupted relational ways, criminalizing cultural practices, restricting freedom of movement, forcing relocation, removing children from families, dismantling relational worldviews, and marginalizing Indigenous lives. However, Indigenous peoples have never been passive in the face of colonialism. Now more than ever, Indigenous knowledge in three critical areas-food and water security, climate change, and health-is needed for self-determination and collective survival in a rapidly changing world. (Global Health Promotion, 2019; 26(Supp. 3): 82-86)

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Although stories and storytelling have long and varied histories across multiple geographies, they are increasingly being valorized in new and public ways.Drawing from feminist, Marxist, anti-racist, and decolonizing theoretical frameworks, we critically unpack humanities-based happenings and (re)read the "creative re-turn" in geography and medical-health sciences.We conclude with reflections about anti-hegemonic ways humanities-informed methods and methodologies, including stories and storytelling, might be taken up in an "unscripted" way by geographers and medical-health researchers.Geography and the medical-health sciences have long histories of engaging the humanities. The last decade has seen for both disciplines a significant growth in theoretical frameworks, pedagogic strategies, and research methods that draw upon visual and literary arts, critical self-reflection, creative tools and expressions, and even direct engagement or partnership with artists, curators, authors, theatre-practitioners, The Canadian Geographer Le Géographe canadienThe Canadian Geographer Le Géographe canadien and other professionals in the arts. Both geographers and medical-health professionals, then, are increasingly (re)making and understanding various worlds through the humanities. In this paper we explore the histories of humanities in both geography and the medical-health sciences, especially medicine: we argue the two disciplines have much to learn from each other's engagement and work with the humanities. Focusing on the increasing use of narrative and storytelling in both disciplines, we argue that deployment of humanities-based frameworks and impulses must not be taken up without careful and critical analytical reflection. Finally, we ground our theoretical explorations with empirical examples from recent community-based work about the risks and benefits of storytelling and visual arts when looking at the health geographies of Indigenous and settler peoples in Northern British Columbia.Keywords: humanities, storytelling, geography, health and medicine, criticality L'int erêt pour les sciences humaines par la g eographie et les sciences m edicales et de la sant e s'inscrit dans une longue tradition. Au cours de la derni ere d ecennie, les deux disciplines ont connu une importante croissance de cadres th eoriques, de strat egies p edagogiques et de m ethodes de recherche qui font appel aux arts visuels et a la litt erature, a l'autor eflexion critique, a des outils et modes d'expression novateurs, voire même a une participation directe ou a des partenariats avec des artistes, conservateurs, auteurs, praticiens de l'art dramatique et d'autres professionnels du domaine des arts. Autant les g eographes que les professionnels de la m edecine et de la sant e contribuent de plus en plus a (re)constituer et comprendre divers mondes a travers les sciences humaines. Cet article brosse un tableau historique des sciences humaines tant en g eographie qu'en sciences m edicales et de la sant e, en particulier la m edecine : nous soutenon...

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