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How are First Nations women using the Internet as a health resource?
This question begins my ethnographic exploration into the ways in which internet communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to new and emerging concepts and practices of health and health matters when good health is understood as consistent with and integral to cultural identities and practices.

With internet access increasing exponentially in remote First Nations communities and with the expansion of telehealth initiatives across Canada, this project examines the ways in which remote-dwelling Cree women, in particular, access and use these technologies for health-related matters.  This qualitative medical anthropology project emerges out of larger theoretical questions about the fluidity of boundaries between physical, virtual and remote spaces and whether/how internet technologies are influencing and shifting concepts, practices or representations of health.

The image above plays on the idea of the engagement of Indigenous peoples in and through time, space, and technology.  As a Cree colleague noted, the rock art imagery is a contemporary reflection upon a time when people could communicate long distances with and through their powers.

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