“…Western interpretations of illness onto Indigenous peoples and research with Indigenous peoples has led to a historical disconnect that is seen throughout Indigenous territories in North America, Central/South America, Australia, and New Zealand (Collier, Farias-Campero, Perez, & White;2000;Martín & Millares, 2013;da Silva, Gabert-Diaz, & da Silva, 2015;Waterworth, Pescud, Braham, Dimmock, & Rosenberg, 2015). Indigenizing evaluation and assessments by adapting the CCS with an accompanying assessment tool to understand traditional definitions of mental health symptoms can assess and sustain well-being through blending culture and processing through the distressing and traumatic nature of development in these regions.…”