Why read it: Life Course, Missive and Methodology is for clinicians, educators, researchers, and leaders who want their work to be accountable to Indigenous peoples, lands, and future generations, not just written about them. Part teaching text, part correspondence, it follows wellness across the life course, showing how identity, kinship, land, language, and systems shape what “health” can mean.

Through missives and reflections, the book models relational ways of knowing: listening before measuring, visiting before evaluating, giving back before taking, and situating evidence within community stories and responsibilities. Its methodological guidance supports a shift from extractive research and one-size-fits-all interventions toward approaches grounded in reciprocity, consent, and Indigenous self-determination.

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