ABSTRACT
The geographies of indigenous health are a relatively new sub-discipline of critical human geography. This chapter begins with a short discussion on the importance of Indigenous knowledge frameworks for understanding the connections between indigenous peoples, their health, and the land. It provides a short analysis of indigenous health disparities as well as the processes that have contributed to these inequities. The chapter presents a discussion about the origins of the geographies of indigenous health and its evolution, including a transformation in the conceptualization and measurement of health. Indigenous health geographies have also contributed in significant ways to the development of participatory methodologies and approaches that engage indigenous peoples and communities in research development as a way of allowing them to exert self-determination over their health, their lands and their environmental futures. Richmond et al. framed the findings around a political-ecological framework that challenged researchers working at the land-health interface.
