(Structure your search to include both perspectives by using the Boolean operator "OR":)
community term | corrupted/foreign term | database search including both perspectives |
---|---|---|
Diné | Navajo | (Diné OR Navajo) |
Ojibwe | Chippewa | (Ojibwe OR Chippewa) |
traditional medicine | ethnopharmacology | ("traditional medicine" OR ethnopharmacology) |
**Some historically racist aspects of medicine (ie, the spirometer) remain embedded in modern practice. Be wary of "evidence" that ties health outcomes to race, rather than racism or socioeconomic inequity.
the above information on terms in Canada sourced from The University of British Columbia's First Nations & Indigenous Studies Indigenous Foundations "Terminology" webpage.
PubMed example:
("Indians, North American"[Mesh] OR "Three Affiliated Tribes" OR Mandan OR Hidatsa OR Arikara OR "Fort Berthold")
CINAHL example:
((MH "Native Americans") OR "Three Affiliated Tribes" OR Mandan OR Hidatsa OR Arikara OR "Fort Berthold")
"Alaskan Natives"[Mesh]
"American Native Continental Ancestry Group"[Mesh]
"American Indians or Alaska Natives"[Mesh] - NEW TERM - use for articles published in 2022 or later.
- for articles published 1990 to 2021, use "Indians, North American"[Mesh]
"Ethnopharmacology"[Mesh]
"Health Disparity, Minority and Vulnerable Populations"[Mesh]
"Health Services, Indigenous"[Mesh]
"Indians, Central American"[Mesh]
"Indians, North American"[Mesh] - OLD TERM - only used on articles published 1990 to 2021
- for articles published in 2022 or later, use "American Indians or Alaska Natives"[Mesh]
"Indians, South American"[Mesh]
"Inuits"[Mesh]
"United States Indian Health Service"[Mesh]
(DH "Arctic Peoples") (up until 2021, the subject heading was "Eskimos [Note: "For genetic and physiological as well as cultural and social discussion of Eskimos.")
(DH "First Nations of Australia")
(DH "First Nations of Canada")
(DH "Health Services, Indigenous")
(DH "Indigenous Peoples")
(DH "Inuit") [NOTE: "Group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of Arctic and near-Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland."
(DH "Medicine, Native American")
(DH "Maori")
(DH "Native Americans") [NOTE: "For native peoples of the United States and non-Arctic Alaska regions"]