The Indigenous Health Movement (IHM) is an interdisciplinary, student-run club that works to provide opportunities to learn about topics relating to Indigenous Health and Wellbeing. Our activities involve planning and executing the annual IHM Conference, Learning Circle workshops, and Community Engagement activities guided by Indigenous voices and work to educate and engage McMaster students, faculty, and community members.

Knowing the Land

McMaster University resides on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe Nations, on lands protected by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Agreement. IHM works to maintain gratitude and appreciation towards these Nations for taking care of these lands for generations so that we may exist here, while acknowledging our responsibility to uphold the principles of peace, reciprocity, sharing, and community-mindedness, as outlined in the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Agreement. As a club run within McMaster University, a colonial institution, we also acknowledge our shared responsibility to address the historic and contemporary acts of violence and exploitation that have occurred and continue to occur against these lands and the Indigenous and Black peoples who call these lands home or have been displaced from their homelands, at the hands of the colonial government and Canadian society.