ABSTRACT
In this chapter the authors ask, where is the Indigenous history of medicine? Unlike postcolonial critiques that have been used to examine medicine in the colonial Southern hemisphere, less critical attention has been given to the colonial contexts of Western medicine provided to Indigenous peoples. The authors consider the tools, perspectives, and critiques that an Indigenous health humanities can offer. They draw on Indigenous life-writing, narrative, and art within health care, as well as critical writing about Indigenous knowledges and methodologies. Four areas for further investigation are highlighted: (1) Art and story as medicine; (2) Art and story as knowledge and critique; (3) Specificity, diversity and sovereignty of Indigenous knowledges; and (4) Storytelling as relational—On being an ally reader/viewer/listener.
