Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Dr. Evan Adams -- Introduction to the Second Edition: Rethinking (Once Again) Determinants of Indigenous Peoples' Health -- Part 1. Setting the Context: Beyond the Social -- Chapter 1. Structural Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples' Health -- Chapter 2. Knausgaard, Nova Scotia -- Chapter 3. Embodying Self-Determination: Beyond the Gender Binary -- Chapter 4. Reflections of One Indian Doctor in a Town Up North -- Chapter 5. Two-Eyed Seeing in Medicine -- Chapter 6. The Spiritual Dimension of Holistic Health: A Reflection -- Part 2. Honouring Indigenous Knowledge about Health -- Chapter 7. atikowisi miýw-āyāwin, Ascribed Health and Wellness, to kaskitamasowin miýw-āyāwin, Achieved Health and Wellness: Shifting the Paradigm -- Chapter 8. Raven Healing -- Chapter 9. miyo-pimâtisiwin, "A Good Path": Indigenous Knowledges, Languages, and Traditions in Education and Health -- Chapter 10. Inuit Knowledge Systems, Elders, and Determinants of Health: Harmony, Balance, and the Role of Holistic Thinking -- Chapter 11. Two Poems -- Part 3. Wellness Is Knowing Who We Are: Culture and Identity -- Chapter 12. Being at the Interface: Early Childhood as a Determinant of Health -- Chapter 13. Knowing Who You Are: Family History and Aboriginal Determinants of Health -- Chapter 14. Cultural Wounds Demand Cultural Medicines -- Chapter 15. Grandma and Grandpa and the Mysterious Case of Wolf Teeth in the House! -- Part 4. Health of the Land, Health of the People -- Chapter 16. The Relatedness of People, Land, and Health: Stories from Anishinabe Elders -- Chapter 17. Activating Place: Geography as a Determinant of Indigenous Peoples' Health and Well-Being -- Chapter 18. Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies -- Chapter 19. Take Care of the Land and the Land Will Take Care of You: Resources, Development, and Health -- Chapter 20. Dishinit Sakeh -- Part 5. Revisioning Medicine: Toward Indigenization -- Chapter 21. miyo-pimâtisiwin: Practising "the Good Way of Life" from the Hospital Bed to Mother Earth -- Chapter 22. Reshaping the Politics of Health: A Personal Perspective -- Chapter 23. Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Policies and Programs in British Columbia: Beyond the Rhetoric -- Chapter 24. Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Populations: Why a Focus on Genetic Susceptibility Is Not Enough -- Chapter 25. Determining Life with HIV and AIDS -- Chapter 26. Medicine Is Relationship: Relationship Is Medicine.