The “Elephants in the Room” in U.S. global health: Indigenous nations and white settler colonialism

Abstract

We are two Indigenous young people from the Oceti Sakowin, made up of the Lakota and Dakota Tribal Nations in modern day U.S. and Canada. As Indigenous health professionals and students, we are used to having to advocate for visibility in healthcare. In medical schools, students learn little of us and there are few to no Indigenous faculty In the academic literature, we are often left out of studies, creating a cycle of data inequity And in global health, Indigenous Nations are seldom considered, even in decolonizing global health spaces.

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