ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses tenets and views of planetary health from an Indigenous perspective. Indigenous Peoples have had sustainable health systems and practices for millennia that have often been forcibly minimised or suppressed in Western health system discourse and practice due in part, to racism and colonisation. Traditional Indigenous Medicine, Indigenous service delivery models, and learning points are platformed in the context of planetary health and sustainable health systems while reflecting on potential bridges to action. Indigenous Peoples have known the concept of ecosystem and earth system boundaries within traditional health systems for thousands of years. Although important advances have occurred within Western medicine, it has also come at the cost of ourselves and Nature. As we not only reimagine but implement transformative change within healthcare systems to align with the health of the planet, there is a continued need to listen to and advance the longest planetary and medicinal stewards of the Land.
