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A Nurse's Journey With Cultural Humility: Acknowledging Personal And Professional Unintentional Indigenous-Specific Racism, Deanne Schmalz, Holly Graham, Arlene Kent-Wilkinson

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This is a first-person reflection of my journey through cultural humility to identify a connection between my inherent beliefs about Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous-specific systemic racism. The co-authors of this paper provided guidance, mentorship, and support in organizing the framework due to the challenging and sensitive nature of the content. As part of my relational practice, I worked with a Cree scholar to write this paper. As a descendant of white European colonial settlers, I grew up in a small community in western Canada populated by people of similar backgrounds. My exposure to Indigenous Peoples and culture was very minimal; …