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Indigenous researchers are working together with their non-Indigenous academic partners to analyze a major health study at a Hamilton-based research institute.
Researchers use modern technology to reconstruct the properties of one of Earth’s oldest naturally occurring materials commonly found in ancient rock art.
“Indigenous people have faced unique social origins of mental health problems including forced displacement, colonization and dissolution of traditional family units," says Bernice Downey, one of the study's authors. "It may be surprising that the reported rates of mental health problems is not higher."