**Online Sources of Aboriginal Health Information**

Although the government closed the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) in June 2012, their web site remains online until the end of 2017. Despite critiques from First Nations, Metis, and Inuit groups of NAHO's ability to reflect the diversity of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, the web site remains an excellent repository of information on Indigenous health and wellness in Canada.

Various organizations provide similar coordination. The National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health (NCCAH) and the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health (IAPH) of CIHR are increasingly important both as sources of information and in building the knowledge base needed to advance Aboriginal health.

The Health Libraries Wiki (HLWIKI International), maintained by Dean Giustini, presents a comprehensive starting point for discussions of Aboriginal health. It includes theoretical perspectives and practitioner knowledge and points to key portals and databases.

Though it can hardly count as “news,” the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Report, especially Volume 3: Gathering Strength, contains significant remarks on health and wellbeing. Many policies and programs noted in this issue have been guided by Commission recommendations.

The Healthy Aboriginal Network is an organization based in British Columbia that provides health information, including bilingual publications, for and by indigenous people. Promoting community-focused health literacy,

they have partnered with various authors (such as Richard Van Camp) to present comic books on issues around health and wellness—including sexuality, dog bites, and financial literacy. Three of their comics are reviewed in this issue.

The Aboriginal Audio Digitization and Preservation Program (AADPP) out of UBC Library's Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is a partnership with the Museum of Anthropology and the First Nations Technology Council. As an indigenous knowledge initiative, it is by nature interdisciplinary. Digitizing culturally significant teachings not only builds capacity in these communities, but also offers the opportunity to learn from elders about traditional health knowledge in a way that respects traditional means of communicating this knowledge.

**Jim Henderson, Retired**

3657 West 23rd Avenue
Vancouver BC V6S 1K6
E-mail: jim.henderson@mcgill.ca

**Jessie Loyer**

Mount Royal University
4825 Mount Royal Gate SW
Calgary AB T2E 6K6
E-mail: jloyer@mtroyal.ca