This talk by Dr. Anderson-DeCoteau walks us through the instutional racim and epistemic racism that often plagues our health care system. There has been an imperialist implementation of colonial policies that have stigmatized, othered and affected access to resources in our Indigenous communities. Our health care system has been based on western values and framework. For example, the gold standard for research has been through large randomized control trials, and oftentimes, the indigenous way of knowing is not often included in these trials/studies.
Dr. Anderson-DeCoteau walks us through these barriers and some ways to overcome these through Indigenous ways of knowing through values like love, humility and knowledge.