Indigenous peoples research in paramedicine: Embracing ways of knowing

Paramedicine is practised in communities, not in isolation. As paramedics, we enter homes, stand on Indigenous land, and work with families and communities shaped by history, resilience, colonisation, sovereignty and strength. In these interactions, we do more than manage illness and injury. We engage with peoples lived experience, and with understandings of health and care shaped by culture, place and community. Those experiences are never culturally neutral, and neither is the knowledge that informs how we study and understand them.