Stories of Strength

Abstract

In Creative Nursing 2025, Amplifying Seldom-Heard Voices and Dismantling Oppressive Structures, we continue to confront complex issues, listening for narratives that are often suppressed or discounted and contravening the forces and policies that act to stifle them. The theme of Issue 3, Indigenous Voices Sharing Our Stories and Leading Change, continues our legacy of publishing information that the world needs to hear. This journal issue brings together a group of scholars, many of whom are Indigenous, to speak their truths. Many report on the impact of the physical and cultural genocide against Indigenous people in many lands. But when establishing the rightful place of Indigenous scholars and Indigenous ways of knowing, and teaching about Indigenous health, it is important to acknowledge the pre-contact history of Indigenous peoples and to take a strengths-based approach. All of this issue's articles about Indigenous health are exemplars of strengths-based, solutions-focused knowledge about how to support Indigenous nursing students and how to provide culturally safe care, fully conscious of issues of structure and power.